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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64735968760698622162020-03-18T14:55:00.040-04:00this day in pop cultureYour daily serving of the world's Pop Culture History in story format.johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-14739879413978703992020-03-18T00:00:00.000-04:002020-03-18T00:00:01.431-04:00March 18: Jenny's Last Dive

On March 18th, 1741, an Irish woman known as Jenny Diver was hanged in England. Born Mary Young, Diver migrated to England where she became a skilled thief, robbing high society using many techniques including false arms which made it possible for her rob people with her hands seemingly visible in her lap.

As a member of a street gang run by a woman named Anne Murphy, Diver was so skilled as a thief that she became the leader of Murphy's gang and given the name Jenny Diver.

In 1728 Diver was the inspiration for the role of the same name in John Gay's 1728 The Beggar's Opera.

Twice she was arrested and banished to the New World, and both times she bribed the captain on the prison ship to allow her a comfortable travel with her property, bribed the governor in Virginia to relieve her of her sentence, and bribed the captain to take her back to London again. But on January 10th, 1741, she was arrested for the third time, and sentenced to death.

Due to her notoriety she was taken to her execution in a mourning carriage in a black dress and hat with veil, and reportedly behaved with composure to the very end.

johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-29091867753735325072020-02-18T00:00:00.000-05:002020-02-18T00:00:05.527-05:00February 18: The Resurrection of Ol' Rip

On February 18th, 1928, in in Eastland, Texas, the 31 year old County Courthouse was torn down. A time capsule placed in a cornerstone was opened and a horned lizard, placed there in 1897, among other memorabilia was produced alive; supposedly hibernating for over 3 decades in the stone.

Wether or not the lizard (named Ol' Rip) was in fact the original or ringer, it became a celebrity and went on tour, eventually meeting President Calvin Coolidge in Washington, D.C.

Ol' Rip died after almost a year, and the remains went on display in the new Eastland County Courthouse. Over 4 decades later, in 1973, Ol' Rip's body was stolen and an anonymous letter was found claiming that finding Ol' Rip alive in the cornerstone was a hoax. The author demanded, in exchange for returning the body, the conspirators in come forth. No one did, and the coffin and body was found in the county fairgrounds.

Speculation that the body in the coffin was a substitute and rumors of the body of the real Ol' Rip was held by a private collector.

The average lifespan of a horned Lizard is about 5-8 years.johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-34305953236512119622019-12-25T21:58:00.000-05:002019-12-25T21:58:02.200-05:00December 25th: The layered Tale of Louisville's 1st Christmas

Mildred Hill.
Courtesy of the University Of Louisville Photo Archives

On December 25th, Christmas Day, Louisville's first black resident saved Christmas.
Many of you Louisville history buffs will be quite familiar with that remark, as well as the name Cato Watts. It is a story that has been well documented and written about many times since its occurrence in 1778.

The facts we do know about Watts have been heavily researched and written about in journals dating back over 100 years. But what we do not know about Cato Watts is just as curious given the amount of time spent chronicling his life.

What we do know about Watts is that he was both the first black resident, and the first musician of Louisville; given that he was present during the founding of Louisville, standing amidst Col. George Rogers Clark as the settlement was founded, we can be certain these facts are true.

 Watts also carries the title of Louisville's first slave. Accounts overtime on this vary; over the last 100 years the different published accounts of Watts refer to him in different ways: the 1940 account, 'The Negro In Kentucky,' by G. W. Jackson refers to Watts as a 'Negro servant', but written in the 20th century the omission of the word 'slave' was perhaps careful footstepping. The 1896 account,
Music History of Louisville, by musicologist and famed writer of the melody for 'Happy Birthday', Mildred J. Hill refers to Watts as a 'negro fiddler', and Reuben Thomas Durrett's work just two years prior to Hill's, in The Romance of the Origin of Louisville, Durrett refers to Watts in several different ways, including the nickname of 'The Old Standby' before settling on 'slave'.

Watts arrived in the area as the servant of Captain John Donne attached to Col. George Rogers Clark's expedition. They set up a settlement on May 27, 1778 during the Revolutionary War, on Corn island in the Ohio river just across from modern day 12th street. When Clark's militia departed 60 civilian settlers remained behind in 1778 and since that day there has always been a European presence in this area.

Corn Island, on the other hand, is all but gone. In the 1800s The Louisville Cement Company extracted rock for cement and the removal of trees from the island contributed to erosion, which washed much of the island away by 1895. The rest of Corn island is now permanently underwater, although a Louisville family by the name of James has held the deed on Corn Island for generations and still pays an annual land tax.

On December 25th of 1778 the settlement had a Christmas feast and dance on the site that is now 12th street. According to the Filson Club the music was supplied by Jean Nickle, a french fiddler that only played 'French airs', but was unpopular amongst the settlers who wanted more 'lively tunes' to dance to. The settlers soon replaced him with Cato Watts who played the more popular genres of Irish jigs and Virginia reels, thus creating the legend of 'the slave that saved the first Louisville Christmas.'

According to Hill, Watts was well regarded amongst the settlers for his fiddle playing, but the strings on his instrument had long been broken, so when a fresh instrument appeared, as a near Christmas miracle perhaps, the settlers where all to happy to commandeer Nickle's fiddle for Watts' use. Hill, a Louisville native and music reacher specializing in the study of Negro Spirituals, ended her manuscript in a curious note. "Cato's music was certainly the music of the people and.." she wrote, " if a history of Kentucky music is to be written, a large portion should be written about the negro in our state, but the music of the negro in a city is of little interest because he is so surrounded and influenced by the whites that his own loses its characteristics, and therefore, its interest."

In addition to being Louisville's first black resident, first slave, and first musician, Cato Watts has two more distinctions: the first person to be tried for murder in Louisville and first resident hung to death in Louisville.

According to Durrett's 1893 account, Watts knocked down John Donne that resulted in Donne's death. Watts was tried and convicted in 1787. According to J. Blaine Hudson, in an article in the August 1999 Filson Club Quarterly, "The above named Cato Watts was led to the Bar, and upon Examination says that he knocked the said Donne down but that it was not with the intention to kill him." Regardless the man who saved Christmas was found guilty and hanged from a large oak tree which stood where the court house now stands, currently surrounded by the city's Light Up Louisville installation, and in view of the city's 40 foot Christmas tree.
 "He killed his owner as he claimed by accident, but was tried and hung for the crime.." wrote Durrett in his 1893 account, "much to sorrow of the young people who enjoyed his music at their dances."

an artist rendition of Cato Watts defeating Jean Nickle, from 'Stories of Old Kentucky'
 by Martha C. Grassham Purcell, c1915

johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-25269108482720728182019-10-30T00:00:00.000-04:002019-10-30T00:00:01.223-04:00October 30th: Sure It'll cost you a fortune, but you can watch that VHS tape anytime you want

On October 30th, 1985, The blockbuster motion picture, Beverly Hills Cop, was released on Video Cassette for $29.95 by Paramount Pictures. The average cost of VHS releases that year was $79.95; and the majority of video releases were sold to movie rental stores, marking a change in the industry to begin targeting individual consumers as purchasers of home movies and not just renters.

30 years later, in 2015, the average cost of a new DVD release was $15.99, and 24.99 for Blue Ray.johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-7343593128286884632019-07-01T00:00:00.000-04:002019-07-01T00:00:05.100-04:00July 1: All Day I Dream About Shoes That Aren't Associated With Nazis

 On July 1st, 1924, siblings Adolf and Rudolph Dassler opened the Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory (Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik) in Herzogenaurach, Germany. Adolf, known as Adi, began designing training shoes in his mother's washroom after serving in WWI. His father was a shoe cobbler and supported his son's efforts, his brother Rudolph soon joined and the Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory was created. Adi made history in 1936 at the Summer Olympics in Berlin by sponsoring American Athlete Jesse Owens, making it the first ever sports sponsorship for a male African American athlete.

 In the 1930s with the rise of the Nazi Party, both brothers felt pressure to join the National Socialist Party. Adi served one year in the German Defense Force (Wehrmacht) before successfully distancing himself from the Nazi Party. This caused friction between the brothers, with Rudolph being an ardent supporter of the National Socialist party.

 In 1945 Rudolf was captured by American troops for being a suspected member of the SS, reportedly on information supplied by Adi. In 1948 with tensions between the brothers coming to a boil, Rudolph left the company and started a competing shoe company across town called Puma. Adi renamed the Dassler Brothers Shoe Factory 'Adidas' putting together the first few letters of his first and last name (ADI+DAS-sler).

Born on this Day:

1945 – Debbie Harry, American singer and frontman for the band Blondie. Known as a punk and New Wave band, Blondie also has the distinction of being the first group to hit no.1 on the U.S. charts with a rap song.

johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-55790957894074066742019-06-12T00:00:00.000-04:002019-06-12T00:00:00.290-04:00June 12th: Space, The final Frontier (For Consumer Marketing)

On June 12, 2008, high-powered radars at the EISCAT European space station in the Arctic Circle pulsed a message out over a six-hour period to the constellation Ursa Major, just about 80 light years away from Earth.

Although broadcasting messages into deep space is nothing new, we inadvertently broadcast television and radio signals into space daily; and in 1977 NASA sent two golden records into space with greetings and recorded messages from Earth, the broadcast on June 8th was something new; A recorded advertisement for Doritos chips specifically for alien life.

The 30 second ad was created and directed by 25-year-old Matt Bowron of the United Kingdom, as part of the Doritos Broadcast Project, which invited the UK public to create a 30 second video involving Doritos and 'Life On Earth'.

Peter Charles, Head of the Doritos Broadcast Project said of the transmission "We are constantly looking to push the boundaries of advertising and this will go further than any brand has gone before... We also shouldn't be too surprised if the first aliens start arriving on planet Earth immediately demanding a bag of Doritos."johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-32408354885253700482019-04-01T00:00:00.000-04:002019-04-01T00:00:04.309-04:00April 1st: When The Sequel That Doesn't Exist Is As Popular As The Prequel That Does

On April 1st, 2018, music news website 37FLOOD leaked a track by hip hop producer MC HIJACK purportedly from the soundtrack of a forthcoming sequel to the cult film Donnie Darko, labeled When The Night Gets Too Darko, grabbing attention from both the music and film world, instantly joining the ranks of popular sequels that don't actually exist such as Good Will Hunting II: Hunting Season, and Ferris Bueller 2: Another Day Off, as well as popular albums that don't exist either such as Dr. Dre's Detox, and Outkast's The Hard Way.

Editor's Note: Every April 1st we spotlight a historical April Fool's joke. Past April 1st stories include a Wikipedia article about Gen. George Washington's instant coffee invention, and an illusionist's discovery of the corpse of a fairy in England. johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-33048607330534799022019-03-18T00:00:00.000-04:002019-03-18T00:00:00.154-04:00March 18: Conspiracy In The NYC (A Prince Is Killed And An Irish Slave Starts A Witch Hunt)
On March 18 in 1741 a fire broke out at New York governor George Clarke's home. This was the first of 13 fires set during the trial of John Hughson, a poor white tavern owner, and two black slaves, Caesar and Prince. The Tavern Hughson owned was a hangout for black and white slaves, as well as poor whites and free blacks (at the time this was not at all uncommon, as the lower classes intermingled and even had children together). Hughson was accused of receiving stolen liquor from Caesar and Prince.

The elite were nervous about the different lower classes socializing together and worried of an uprising of poor whites and blacks working together, so the constables watched the tavern constantly, in an effort to catch illegal activity so it could be shut down. As the trial went on more fires spread across Manhattan and panic arose over a fear of the underclasses revolting. Hughson, Prince, and Caesar were executed, their bodies left in public to rot. A 16-year-old Irish slave, Mary Burton, was arrested for theft and facing a similar fate instead testified about a supposedly growing conspiracy of poor whites and blacks to burn down the city, kill the white men and take the white women for themselves, and hopefully remove the governor and replace him for a king of their choice; solidifying the fears of the government.

A witch hunt ensued in which those arrested named others in the conspiracy in hopes of leniency, leading to 160 blacks and 21 whites being arrested. As the panic continued Mary Burton and others began naming rich elite as conspirators as well causing the public to realize little if any of the conspiracy had truth to it. By then 17 blacks and 4 whites had been hanged, 13 blacks were burned slowly at stake, and 70 blacks and 7 whites were banished from New York.
Also, Mary Burton received a reward of ₤100 from the city, which she used to buy her freedom.

Editor's Note: In understanding this story it should be noted that slavery in early America looked somewhat differently then it did by 1865. Early slaves in America came in many forms including white europeans (mostly Irish, Scottish, or German), American Indians, and Africans. A common form of slavery for these groups was also called 'indentured servitude', but make no mistake that this form was any better. These slaves could 'work off' their debt and eventually become free but many were subjected to physical and sexual abuse, starvation, and as it was not illegal to kill a slave, many were simply worked to death before their indebted time was up.
That said, in the 1700s it was not uncommon for slaves of any color to spend their personal time in public, carrying weapons, conducting side work for extra money, and fraternizing with free people.
It was only after riots and rebellions of white and black slaves working together (demanding a better life) that measures were made to cause racial tensions and soon enough 'chattel' slavery became the norm. johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-16442937802945602002019-02-22T00:00:00.000-05:002019-02-22T00:00:15.846-05:00February 22: Rise of Red Bird And Native American Rights

On February 22nd in 1876 native American writer, activist, educator, and musician Zitkala-Sa (Red Bird) was born on the Yankton Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

At a young age Quaker missionaries came to the Yankton Reservation and took several children to the White's Manual Labor Institute, a boarding school in Wabash, Indiana including Zitkala-Sa.
After graduation she attended Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana before becoming a teacher herself. Though she valued education she felt isolated in a white/european culture, and felt her identity was stripped away by the Quaker missionaries. She was further dismayed when returning to Yankton Reservation to find many of native Sioux traditions had fallen away and the reservation conforming to the dominant white culture.

Zitkala-Sa began archiving Native American customs and legends and was first published in 1900 when she published legends collected from Native American culture, as well as autobiographical narratives. She also wrote columns for the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly, as well as writing the first Native American Opera.

in 1926 she and her husband founded the National Council of American Indians, dedicated to the cause of uniting the tribes throughout the U.S. in the cause of gaining full citizenship rights and served as it's president until her death in 1938.

Photo: Zitkala-Sa (1901) Public Domain photograph by Joseph Keileyjohnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-55127060081833659192019-01-12T00:00:00.000-05:002019-01-12T00:00:09.365-05:00January 12 - From Slave To Lawman: The Story Of Bass Reeves

 On January 12, 1910, one of the most prolific and successful U.S. Marshals, Bass Reeves, died at the age of 71 in Muskogee, Oklahoma. Reeves served as a U.S. Marshal for more than 30 years and arrested over 3,000 wanted men, and was respected for his superior marksmanship and tracking capabilities, despite being born (in 1838, exact date unknown) a slave in Crawford County, Arkansas.

 He was owned by Arkansas state legislator William Steele Reeves and was the servant for Williams' son, George R. Reeves. George was a Colonel in the Confederate army during the Civil War. It was during the war that Bass "parted ways" with his owner after he beat up George during a dispute over a card game. George went on to become Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives until his death in 1882 from rabies. Bass hid out until 1865 when slavery was abolished. During that time he lived with Cherokee, Seminole, and Creek Indians, learning their culture and languages. Bass Reeves then moved to Arkansas to be a farmer with wife Nellie Jennie and their eleven children.

 Reeves and his family farmed until 1875, when famed federal judge Isaac Parker directed U.S. Marshal James F. Fagan to hire 200 deputy U.S. Marshals. Fagan sought out and recruited Bass Reeves (for Reeves' knowledge of Indian Territory and Indian languages) making Reeves the first black deputy west of the Mississippi River.

 For over thirty years as a U.S. Marshal, Reeves captured over 3,000 felons, and killed fourteen outlaws in self defense, amazingly he was never wounded despite having his hat and belt shot off on separate occasions. After 32 years as a Marshal, Reeves retired at 68, and became an officer of the Muskogee, Oklahoma police department until his death on this date in 1910.

Image: Bass Reeves (public domain photo)johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-28701168262296057702018-10-07T00:00:00.000-04:002018-10-07T00:00:01.046-04:00October 7 - Kelly Girl: Birth of the Temp Worker

On this date in 1946 William Russell Kelly founded 'Russell Kelly Office Service' in Troy, Michigan, as the first temporary staffing agency that provided temporary secretarial services for clients onsite.
The Kelly Service was founded shortly after World War II, a time when women joined the workforce in large numbers. Soon the term 'Kelly Girl' entered the lexicon referring to temp workers in general, regardless of gender. Adelaide Hess Moran has the distinction of being the world's first Kelly Girl.

 In 1957 the 'Russell Kelly Office Service' officially changed its name to 'Kelly Girl Service' but changed it's name again in 1966 'Kelly Services Inc' in order to reflect an expanding range of services including office services, accounting, engineering, information technology, law, science, marketing, creative services, light industrial, education, and health care. Kelly operates in 41 countries and territories and employs more than 500,000 individuals annually.

johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-44726031323821219852018-09-15T00:00:00.000-04:002018-09-15T17:56:09.336-04:00September 15: Muhammad Ali Becomes The Greatest (3 Times Over) And A Misfit Is Born
On September 15, 1978, Boxing legend and civil rights activist Muhammad Ali beat Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title three times. Ali outpointed Spinks in front of a crowd of 65,000 at the Superdome in New Orleans.
It was Ali's last professional win.

Doyle (with Devilock hair) playing with The Misfits.
April 4, 1983 at the 9:30 Club in Washington, D.C.

Born on this day:
1964 - Doyle Wolfgang von Frankenstein, guitarist for the Horror Punk band The Misfits. Doyle's older brother, Jerry Only, was the band's bassist and when guitarist Bobby Steele failed to show up for practice, Only and lead singer Glenn Danzig quickly taught Doyle how to play guitar. He joined the Misfits in October 1980 at the age of 16. The Misfits played their first show at the famed CBGB club in New York in 1977, and are recognized as early developers of the horror punk genre; blending punk rock with camp horror themes and imagery. They are also recognized as the originators of the Devilock hairstyle.

johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-4529739412562224822018-09-11T00:00:00.000-04:002018-09-11T00:00:00.153-04:00September 11: 9/11 Flag Lost and Found After Circling the Globe

On September 11, 2001, the World Trade Centers in New York City fell after two commercial airliners hit them in what is now called the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
Hours after the twin towers fell 3 NYC firemen (George Johnson, Billy Eisengrein and Dan McWilliams) took an American flag off of a yacht docked in a Lower Manhattan harbor and raised it amongst the rubble in the area now known as Ground Zero. The moment was captured in a photograph by newspaper photographer Thomas E. Franklin and published on front pages and magazine covers around the world. The photo has been compared to Joe Rosenthal's 1945 picture of six U.S. troops raising an American flag atop Mount Suribachi on Iwo Jima. The 9/11 flag disappeared hours after the photo was taken and an alternate flag was signed by the governor of New York George Pataki, and two New York City mayors, Rudolph Giuliani and Michael Bloomberg and was put on display at various times around the world. After comparisons of the displayed flag to the flag in the famous photograph reveled it to be a fake, a documentary about the flag's disappearance was made.

 In 2014 a man who identified himself only as 'Brian' walked into a fire station in Everett, Washington (nearly 3,000 miles away from New York) saying he saw the documentary and wanted to hand over a flag he thought to be the famous missing flag. The man, still only known as Brian, said he was a Marine veteran who had been deployed to the Middle East and was told a widow of a 9/11 victim gave the flag to a worker at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, who in turn gave the flag to him.

 A forensic materials scientist for the Washington State Patrol Crime Lab conducted tests and determined that Brian's mystery flag was the flag from the famous photo. It is now on display at the National September 11 Memorial Museum, and a second documentary has been made about the flag's recovery.

johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-6950130873373040262018-08-29T00:00:00.000-04:002018-08-29T02:38:25.313-04:008/29: Forget About Friday The 13th, It's August 29th That Is Truly Nefarious

While Friday the 13th holds a dark aire of mystery, and is generally seen as unlucky, there is little evidence to prove it as such. Most scholars believe the 'Friday The13th' superstition is related to the Holy Bible, as 13 people (12 Apostles and Jesus), met on Thursday, the 13th day of the month for the Last Supper, and Jesus was crucified on Friday the 14th (Good Friday), thus blending the number 13 and the day of Friday. But it is August 29th that has been the date of numerous eerie, nefarious, and tragic events.

In the United States, many ominous events occurred on this date, including Shays' Rebellion (1786), which was an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers in response to high debt and tax burdens, and in 1758 the First American Indian Reservation is established. While, on this day in 1957, Congress passed the Civil Rights Act, it was also the date of the longest Filibuster in US history, by Strom Thurmond (against Civil Rights). Also in the U.S., in 1922, The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City beginning the long tradition of impatient listeners flipping through the radio dial in an effort to evade obnoxious ads.

 On August 29th, in 2005, hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, in which at least 1,245 people died and over a billion dollars in damage was created. Also in the United States, it was the date of a record number of arrests during a US political convention (Republican National Convention in New York City with over 1800 arrests) in 2004.

But it is quite possible that August 29th holds the most bitter association in Russia, as it was the date of not only their first Atom Bomb test (in 1949), but also the day of their first hydrogen bomb test (in 1953). It also happens to be the day in1991 that the Communist Party in the Soviet Union collapsed.

Some positive events also occurred on August 29th including the abolishment of slavery in the United Kingdom (1833), the motorcycle was invented on this day in 1885, the first 3-way call took place in 1877 (although for countless teenage girls this began a cruel tradition of entrapment), in 1885 the world's first Heavy Weight Boxing match took place (again, the positive or negative nature of this is debatable), Chop Suey was invented in NYC in 1896, and in1883 The world's first electric stove cooked dinner was made (also debatable). In science fiction, August 29th, 1997, is the day the machines destroy the Earth in the Terminator film franchise.

As for births of curious and bizarre individuals on August 29th, Diamanda Galás, the American avant-garde soprano and pianist was born on this day in 1955, whose music has been described as "the most unnerving vocal terror." Anton Newcombe, founder of the band The Brian Jonestown Massacre, and whose abusive and hostile stage presence have become as well known as his music, was born on this day in in 1967. It could also be noted that his father committed suicide on August 29th in 2005, a year after the documentary film 'Dig!' was released showing a behind the scenes look into into Anton's tortured and drug addicted world. In a 2014 interview with The Guardian, Anton's response to his father's suicide was "fuck him."
GG Allin, born Jesus Christ Allin, whose stage antics of defecting on himself as well has eating and slinging it onto audience members, was born on this day in 1956.

Events of note occurring on AUGUST 29TH :

-2005 hurricane Katrina hits the U.S. Gulf Coast
 -2004 Record number of arrests during a US political convention (RNC in NYC/ over 1800)
 -1997 the Machines destroy the Earth in Terminator
-1991 the Soviet Union collapses
 - 1982 Ingrid Bergman dies
-1970 Black Panthers kill a policeman in Philadelphia.
-1966 The Beatles play their last show, finally.
- 1967 Jimmy Reed dies
-1967 Anton Newcombe is born
- 1965 Gemini 5 returns to earth
- 1958 Michael Jackson is born
-1957 Congress passes the Civil Rights Act
 -1957 Strom Thurmond ends longest Filibuster in US history (against Civil Rights)
-1956 GG Allin is born
-1955 Diamanda Galas is born
-1953 Soviet Union explodes it's first hydrogen bomb -
1949 soviet Union sets off it's first Atom Bomb.
1945 British "liberate" Hong Kong from Japan
-1944 Paris is liberated by Allied Forces
 -1938 Elliot Gould is born
-1936 Peter Jennings is born 1929
- the first around the world Zeppelin flight is completed
-1924 Dinah Washington is born
 -1922 The first radio advertisement is broadcast on WEAF-AM in New York City.
 -1920 Charlie Parker is Born
-1896 Chop Suey is invented in NYC
 -1885 birth of the motorcycle
-1885 world's first Heavy Weight Boxing match
- 1883 The world's first electric stove cooked dinner is made.
 -1877 Brigham Young dies
-1877 first 3 way phone call is made
-1842 Treaty of Nanking signing ends the First Opium War.
-1833 the United Kingdom abolishes slavery.
-1831 electromagnetic induction is discovered
 -1825 birth of Brazil
-1786 Shays' Rebellion, an armed uprising of Massachusetts farmers, begins in response to high debt and tax burdens.
-1758 the First American Indian Reservation is established.
 -3150 BC the Egyptian New Year

Photo Credit: August 29th is the date Louisville Kentucky threw the world's largest annual Zombie festival, 2005-2015, with an average of 35,000 attendees. Photo by Marty Pearl.

Editor's Note: The editor of this publication was present at the 2004 RNC protest in NYC, and August 29th is also his birthday.johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-21541014472327522472018-08-15T00:00:00.000-04:002018-08-15T00:00:00.363-04:00August 15: When Listening For Aliens, It Helps To Have A Big Ear

On August 15th, 1977, a strong narrowband radio signal from space was recorded at the Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope, in the United States. A few days later astronomer Jerry R. Ehman, assigned to a SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) project, discovered the anomaly while reviewing a computer printout and was so impressed that he circled the reading on the printout and wrote the comment Wow! on the side.

What made the anomaly interesting to Ehman is that it appeared to be an artificial radio signal, not a natural signal that would be found in space, such as one emitted from a pulsar or quasar.
Also, The Big Ear telescope used a 50 channel radio receiver. A natural signal would have bled into several channels, but the 'Wow!' signal was only heard on one frequency, with no other noise on any of the other channels; this signal was narrow and focused, as would be expected from an artificial source.

This signal had all the ear marks of an artificial signal sent from another civilization but has not been detected since, despite several attempts by Ehman and others. The possibility of the signal coming from a natural origin has not been completely discounted, but to date the Wow! signal is considered the best candidate for an alien radio transmission ever received.johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-51491814329426451222018-07-11T00:00:00.000-04:002018-07-11T19:30:44.004-04:00July 11: The Social Readaptation of El Chapo (And Sean Penn's Fall From Grace)

On July 11, 2015, infamous Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán escaped from prison for the second time. On this occasion El Chapo seemingly disappeared from his cell in The Federal Social Readaptation Center No. 1 "Altiplano", an assumed to be impenetrable prison with walls as much as 1 meter thick.

 El Chapo had escaped through a tunnel leading from the shower in his cell to a house one mile away. The tunnel was dug 33 feet underground, complete with ladders, electricity, lighting, air ducts, and a motorcycle outfitted to run on a railway system that ran the length of the tunnel.

 El Chapo's freedom was short lived, as he was recaptured in early January of 2016 in a scenario that could only have been dreamt up in Hollywood; Mexican movie star Kate del Castillo wrote an open letter to El Chapo asking him to traffic love instead of drugs, which led El Chapo to contact her.

Shortly after his escape from Altipano El Chapo met with Kate Del Castillo and American Actor Sean Penn in his mountain hideout to discuss a possible film about El Chapo's life, as well as for an interview by Penn of El Chapo for Rolling Stone Magazine. Penn's cell phone was tracked by American military forces who in turn directed Mexican authorities to the location.

El Chapo was returned to Altiplano Prison. Penn denies Helping authorities track down El Chapo, or any knowledge of being tracked by his cell phone.

johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-68544713106525732652018-06-30T07:17:00.000-04:002018-06-30T07:17:00.234-04:00June 30th: When you can't blame aliens or asteroids...

On June 30th, 1908, at 7:17 a.m. 80 million trees were instantly knocked over near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in central Siberia, in what is now known as the Tunguska Event.

Siberian natives and Russian settlers observed a column of bluish light, nearly as bright as the Sun, moving across the sky. Within minutes witnesses heard a sound that seemed similar to artillery fire move from the east to the north. The sound was accompanied by a shock wave that knocked people off their feet and broke windows hundreds of kilometers away. Amazingly no casualties were reported.

It is estimated that the Tunguska explosion knocked down 80 million trees over an area of 2,150 square kilometers, and that the shock wave from the blast would have measured 5.0 on the Richter magnitude scale. Some scientists believe this resulted from the air burst of a meteor or a comet even though no crater has ever been found.

Others believe that the Tunguska Event was caused by Nikola Tesla, who had been working on his 'World Wireless' system, a system that would use the atmosphere as electrical conductors allowing for the transmission of electric energy without wires on a global scale. In the few years leading up to the Tunguska Event Tesla built an 187 foot tall power transmitting tower station in in Shoreham, New York, that he believed could wirelessly send power across the Atlantic into Europe. The project was never completed.

Nikola Tesla's Wardenclyffe Power Plant facility in Shoreham, New York

johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-70102958233127821252018-05-13T00:00:00.000-04:002018-05-13T15:11:36.166-04:00May 13: A Horse Is A Horse, Unless She Is Your Superior officer

On May 13th, 1968, a 20 year Marine old staff sergeant, Sergeant Reckless, died after getting tangled in some barbed wire at Camp Pendleton. This staff sergeant was a celebrated war hero that received many accommodations including two Purple Hearts, a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, a Presidential Unit Citation, and bronze star for her service during the Korean War.

She was only 5 years old when she was wounded twice, during the Battle of Vegas in 1953, for which she was awarded 2 purple hearts and was given the battlefield rank of corporal. Shortly after the war she was promoted to sergeant. Not only was she respected amongst her unit for her fearless bravery, she was also known for her good humored shenanigans around camp. Often sharing beers with her fellow troops she was known for her ferocious appetite, her favorite being coca cola, she was liable to eat just about anything including a horse blanket and $30 in poker chips. She was not the first female officer in the marines, but gained world wide recognition for her bravery during wartime service, and is noted as the first horse to participate in an amphibious landing.

 On November 10 (the birthday of the Marine Corps), 1954, Sergeant Reckless entered the U.S. at a port in San Francisco, but the Department of Agriculture insisted she be tested for STDs before entering, to the outrage of the Marines who served with her, knowing her as an upstanding officer.

Reckless retired from active service with full military honors at Camp Pendleton on November 10, 1960, and lived there until her death in 1968. She had four foals, including Fearless, Dauntless, and Chesty.johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-18702196072532626102018-04-20T00:00:00.000-04:002018-04-20T00:00:00.324-04:00April 20th: The Birth of Boston's Favorite Song

On April 20th, 2013, singer Neil Diamond surprised the crowd at a Red Sox game at Fenway Park in Boston when he walked out to the field during the 8th inning and sang his platinum single Sweet Caroline.

The song has special meaning for the Red Sox, as it is played in the middle of the 8th inning at all Boston Red Sox home games, and has since 2002.
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Originally played at a Sox game in 1997 for no reason besides that a Fenway employee in charge of music, Amy Toby, liked the tune, it became a good luck charm for the team and played during the 8th inning at any game that the Sox were in the lead.

In 2002 Charles Steinberg, then the executive vice president of public affairs, made the call to play the song at every game.

5 days after the Boston Marathon bombing that killed 3 and injured 264 others on April 15th, 2013, Diamond surprised the Red Sox by singing the song live at the game, and donating all future royalties from sales of the song to the One Fund Boston charity to help the people most affected by the bombings, causing sales to skyrocket 600%.
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On April 1st, 2007, 31 year old Dan Baines was walking his dog in Derbyshire, England, when he and his dog came across the remains of an animal with human features. The dog had uncovered the remains and swallowed the legs and pelvis before Baines could retrieve the body from the dog's mouth. The entire corpse fit into Baines' hand (with the skull being about the size of a quarter) but had the features that resembled that of a human adult.

90 years prior, 2 girls in England claimed to have seen and photographed fairies in Cottingley, only about 75 miles north of Derbyshire, causing many to believe Baines' dog had discovered (and partially eaten) the skeleton of a fairy. X-rays showed the bones of the skeleton to be hollow much like the bones of a bird.

Baines sold the remains for £300 to the National Museum in Bradford England where it is now on display.

Editor's Note: Dan Baines is an illusion designer for magicians from London, England, and first posted images on his website showing the remains of a dead fairy on April 1st, 2007. He now hosts workshops teaching the techniques he used to create his models of dead fairies.

johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-59354075544223913952017-12-08T00:00:00.000-05:002017-12-08T00:00:00.349-05:00December 8: When it comes to sexy, look no further than the toilet

On December 8th, 1857, in New York City, Joseph Gayetty introduced the first commercially marketed toilet paper. Each Manila hemp sheet was watermarked with his name and contained an aloe lubricant. Members of the public could purchase 1,000 sheets for one dollar at his shop at 41 Ann Street, in New York (in 2017 the average price for 1,000 sheets of Quilted Northern was just about $3).
Some called him a hack, but his product was a top seller for several decades until the invention of splinter-free toilet paper by the Northern Tissue Company in 1935.

Toilet paper had been around for at least 1,500 years, invented by the Chinese circa 589 AD.
By the early 14th century, it was recorded that in modern-day Zhejiang province alone there was an annual manufacturing of toilet paper amounting in ten million packages of 1,000 to 10,000 sheets of toilet paper each, and were even individually perfumed.

In 2005, Renova, a Portuguese paper company founded in 1818, introduced the first ever black toilet paper to world wide success, opening the door to a new market of 'sex appeal toilet paper'; Renova now carries a wide variety of colored toilet paper and is known as "the sexiest toilet paper on earth."

johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-20100239000393783782017-10-01T00:00:00.000-04:002017-10-11T01:18:10.805-04:00October Spotlight: History Of Zombies

On October 1st, 1968, George A. Romero's Night Of The Living Dead hit the silver screen. In terms of zombie culture George A. Romero (1940-2017) is the father of the modern Zombie; the zombie that comes to mind when we think of Flesh eating rotten corpses mindlessly roaming the streets to devour human victims.

 Before 1968 when Romero's Night Of the Living Dead was released the idea of zombies were derived from Haitian folklore of people being dosed with a poison that renders them mindless and completely at the mercy of others, as depicted in the 1932 film 'White Zombie' staring Béla Lugosi.

The poison is made from a Datura flower that is quite beautiful, but strips it's victims of reality, those who survive have described the processes as horrifying.

 Further reading on this can be found in the book The Serpent and the Rainbow, written by Harvard Scientist Wade Davis. But Romero's zombies had no puppet masters, just hordes of living dead that can only be killed by piercing the brain. A fun fact being that Romero didn't set out to make a new 'zombie' creature; in Night Of The Living Dead they are called 'Ghouls' and Romero mentioned later that zombies hadn't entered into the equation at the time, stating "I never thought of my guys as zombies when I made the first film...To me, zombies were still those boys in the Caribbean doing the wetwork for Lugosi." This may account for the running theme in his films to never use the "Z" word.

 Romero would spend nearly half a century cultivating this species of zombie; especially memorable for the "Dead Series" beginning in 1968 with Night of the Living Dead and ending in 2009 with Survivial of the Dead. But Romero also ventured into other other types of zombies; most notably the 1973 film The Crazies. in this is a form of Zombie created by a biological agent that effects people and turns them into blood thirsty killers. The difference between this and Romero's 'traditional' zombie is that the infected still retain brain function, so they can think up the brutal ways to kill loved ones and neighbors while evading law enforcement and pretending to not be infected.

 Romero's reanimated flesh eating corpse has truly become the archetype zombie, emulated shamelessly in popular culture from hit American television shows like The Walking Dead, blockbuster films such as Will Smith's I Am Legend, to annual 'zombie walks' carried out around the world, and has inspired zombie variations such as the 'fast zombie' made famous in the 2002 British film 28 Days Later and the 'brain eaters' from the Return of the Living Dead film series.

 Aside from the prospect of thrilling entertainment, zombies have also been cultural vehicles that helped shape modern society. It is true that Romero's flesh eating zombie was the lasting influence of 1968's Night of the Living Dead; but at the time of its release it received recognition for something else entirely. Romero was praised for casting a black man (Duane Jones as Ben) in the role of the Hero, and the film is noted for being the first film with a black protagonist in a movie that was not about race relations. In 1999 the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry, and deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

 But zombie culture has influenced society in other ways as well. Many milatary and government organizations have used zombie outbreak scenarios as a way to plan for large scale viral outbreaks and systemic losses of law and order. The United States Department of Defense Strategic Command has a contingency plan for a zombie outbreak called CONOP 888 also known as Counter-Zombie Dominance. The Center for Disease Control has also discovered that a great way to engage new audiences with preparedness messages is to disseminate health and safety information using zombie outbreaks as way to keep the message fun and entertaining.

 For well over a century the Western world has been intrigued by zombies, first as it roots in African, Caribbean, and South American folklore, through the Imagination of science fiction writers like Mary Shelly and H.P. Lovecraft, to the many variations on the silver screen. Zombies have been depicted in countless ways, as slave victims and brutal assailants, to heroes and lovers. In Romero's 2005 Land of the Dead the protagonist, Big Daddy, is himself a zombie, who is desperately trying to save his fellow ghouls from being slaughtered. In the 1999 Japanese film Wild Zero we find a separated zombie couple desperately searching for one another.

In whatever form or media, it is a fair bet that zombies will continue to occupy a place in popular culture, in an ever expanding plethora of circumstances and viewpoints.johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-59636649003581795882017-09-11T00:00:00.000-04:002017-09-11T00:00:09.470-04:00September 11: All The Drama Of High School

Torrence High School, in Torrence California, first opened it's doors on September 11th, 1917, in Los Angeles County California, and is one of the oldest high schools in continuous use in California.

Torrence High School was used as the location of "West Beverly Hills High School" in the hit 1990s television show Beverly Hills 90210, as well as "Sunnydale High School" in the cult favorite Buffy The Vampire Slayer television series, before it was epically destroyed in Season 3 in a battle on graduation day between Buffy and her friends (known as the Scooby Gang) and the mayor of Sunnydale.

Sunnydale High Class of '99 Graduation

johnkinghttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-61754807604111950912017-07-24T00:00:00.000-04:002017-07-24T00:00:00.368-04:00July 24: Son of the Boston Strangler dies; Declared a brilliant artist

On July 24th, 1989, Mark Morrisroe died at the age of 30 in a hospital in Jersey City due to complications of AIDS.

Morrisroe was born in Malden, Massachusetts in 1959, his mother was a drug addict and a tenant of Albert DeSalvo, also known as "the Boston Strangler", and it was believed that DeSalvo was Morrisroe's father.

At 15 Morrisroe left home and became a prostitute under the name Mark Dirt and began chronicling the queer punk and male hustler scenes in Boston and New York.
At 17 he was shot by a John which left a bullet lodged in his back for the rest of his life.

Morrisroe attended the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, in Boston, where he graduated from the Museum School with honors. His friends included artists Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, and Tabboo!, with whom he founded the drag duo "Clam Twins" at the Pyramid Club in NYC's East Village.

After his death in 1989 his work became highly regarded. His work, which includes over 2,000 photographs, continue to be shown in galleries and museums all over the world.

johnkinghttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6473596876069862216.post-83085081322211497382017-07-10T00:00:00.000-04:002017-07-10T00:00:06.321-04:00July 10: From Feces to Fortune - The birth of Cat Litter

On July 10th, 1920, Ed Lowe was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

In 1947, while living in Cassopolis, Michigan, Lowe's neighbor asked him for some sand to use in her cat's litter box. Lowe gave her some clay called Fuller's Earth (capable of absorbing their weight in water) and to her delight it worked better than sand.
That same year Lowe began packaging it in 5 lb bags and called it "Kitty Litter." At first he gave it away to local pet stores until demand set in, afterwards it sold for 69 cents.
He founded Tidy Cat cat box filler in 1964, and by the time of his death, in 1995, his company was worth half a billion dollars.

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Deakin's Bachelor of Arts (Honours) lets you further your studies in an area that interests you most. As well as diverse coursework, you'll complete a substantial research thesis under supervision from an academic research professional. Stimulate your mind and heart and contribute new ideas to your chosen discipline.
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The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) course requires the completion of 8 credit points of study at level 4. Half of that requirement is met through coursework, which may include directed reading and/or enrolment in course work units, and half is satisfied through a research project (thesis or dissertation) of 14 000-16 000 words. Where creative works form a significant part of the assessment, they must be accompanied by an exegesis of at least 6 000 words, depending on the discipline area. There are no attendance requirements for Cloud (online) enrolled students, although regular consultation with an appointed thesis supervisor is required. Students are also required to complete
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The Bachelor of Arts (Honours) develops important and transferable career skills making you highly employable within many industries.
With an honours edge you will stand out from the crowd because of your advanced skills in managing a large project (the thesis), conducting research, developing original ideas through advanced critical thought, and applying in-depth discipline knowledge to pressing problems.
Our graduates have found careers in international relations, politics, public policy, government civil service, research, business, community services, non-government and community organisations, social work, education, policing, performing and visual arts, publishing and other related fields.
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Deakin's graduate learning outcomes describe the knowledge and capabilities graduates can demonstrate at the completion of their course. These outcomes mean that regardless of the Deakin course you undertake, you can rest assured your degree will teach you the skills and professional attributes that employers value. They'll set you up to learn and work effectively in the future.
Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
Course Learning Outcomes
Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities
Acquire coherent and advanced knowledge of the underlying principles and concepts in a Humanities or Social Science discipline including Creative and Professional Writing, Children's Literature, Anthropology, Criminology, History, Languages, International Relations, Literary Studies, Middle East Studies, Politics, Philosophy or Sociology.
Acquire advanced knowledge of research principles and methods.
Apply this knowledge with initiative and judgement in planning and executing a piece of research and scholarship.
|Demonstrate advanced oral, written and electronic communication skills in the clear and coherent communication of research questions, design and outcomes to diverse audiences and in the production of scholarly papers.
Digital literacy
|Acquire advanced technical skills in the use of a range of digital technologies to research, analyse, synthesise and disseminate information and resources in a rapidly-changing global environment.
Critical thinking
|Employ intellectual independence and advanced theoretical knowledge and cognitive skills to critically analyse, evaluate and apply appropriate theories and methodologies in finding solutions to complex problems.
Problem solving
|Apply advanced theoretical knowledge and cognitive and technical skills to review, analyse, identify and apply solutions to complex problems in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
|Demonstrate autonomy, responsibility, well-developed judgement and adaptability in learning and professional contexts and accountability for personal actions and in undertaking research and in the communication of research outcomes.
|Work and learn collaboratively with colleagues, other professionals and members of the wider community.
Global citizenship
|Demonstrate an advanced understanding and awareness of ethical issues, cultural diversity, and social responsibility when engaging in scholarship and professional roles in the local, national or international community.
Approved by Faculty Board November 2018
*ARWU Rankings 2019
^QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019
#QS Stars University Ratings 2016-2017
**Year on year, our undergraduate students are the most-satisfied students of all Victorian universities. Australian Graduate Survey 2010–2015, Graduate Outcomes Survey 2016–2019 (GOS), Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT).


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National Air Filtration Association (NAFA). NAFA members include all aspects of the air filter industry including HVAC service companies and indoor air quality professionals. Our relationship with NAFA and its members allows us to share ideas and best practices nationwide ensuring the operational and IAQ requirements of your unique facility are met.
The National Air Filtration Association (NAFA) is a dynamic, non-profit trade association. NAFA members include air filter and component manufacturers, sales and service companies, and HVAC and indoor air quality professionals across the United States and in several foreign countries. NAFA is comprised of individuals and companies engaged in the sale, service and manufacture of the air filtration products. The association has five classifications of membership.
ASHRAE was formed as the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers by the merger in 1959 of American Society of Heating and Air-Conditioning Engineers (ASHAE) founded in 1894 and The American Society of Refrigerating Engineers (ASRE) founded in 1904.
In 2012, as part of a rebranding, ASHRAE began doing business as "ASHRAE" vs. using its full legal name of the American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers. Use of ASHRAE reflects the Society's worldwide membership and that services will continue evolving globally.
Mission: To advance the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating to serve humanity and promote a sustainable world.
Vision: ASHRAE will be the global leader, the foremost source of technical and educational information, and the primary provider of opportunity for professional growth in the arts and sciences of heating, ventilating, air conditioning and refrigerating.
Independent, non-governmental international organization comprised of 162 national standards bodies. Through its members, it brings together experts sharing knowledge and developing voluntary, consensus-based, market relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges International Standards give world-class specifications for products, services & systems, ensuring quality, safety & efficiency. ISO has published 21790 International Standards and related documents, covering almost every industry, from technology, to food safety, to agriculture and healthcare. ISO International Standards impact everyone, everywhere.
The goal of WHO is to build a better, healthier future for people all over the world. Working through offices in more than 150 countries, WHO staff work side by side with governments and other partners to ensure the highest attainable level of health for all people.
WHO strives to combat diseases – infectious diseases like influenza and HIV and noncommunicable ones like cancer and heart disease. WHO helps mothers and children survive and thrive so they can look forward to a healthy old age & ensure the safety of the air people breathe, the food they eat, the water they drink – and the medicines and vaccines they need.
California Association of Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Contractors, National Association (CAL SMACNA) is a non-profit statewide trade association representing over 600 sheet metal and air conditioning contractors who employ more than 25,000 union employees and administrative personnel throughout California. These contractors perform commercial and residential heating, ventilating, and air conditioning; architectural and industrial sheet metal; as well as stainless steel kitchen equipment, manufacturing, testing and balancing, siding and decking. Their range of work is from public works to private commercial and residential projects.
The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for protecting the public health by ensuring the safety, efficacy, and security of human and veterinary drugs, biological products, and medical devices; and by ensuring the safety of our nation's food supply, cosmetics, and products that emit radiation.
FDA also has responsibility for regulating the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of tobacco products to protect the public health and to reduce tobacco use by minors.
FDA is responsible for advancing the public health by helping to speed innovations that make medical products more effective, safer, and more affordable and by helping the public get the accurate, science-based information they need to use medical products and foods to maintain and improve their health.
FDA also plays a significant role in the Nation's counterterrorism capability. FDA fulfills this responsibility by ensuring the security of the food supply and by fostering development of medical products to respond to deliberate and naturally emerging public health threats.
The Association for Facilities Engineering (AFE) is a professional membership organization serving all professionals working in the built environment. We bring together professionals who ensure the optimal operation of high-rise commercial real estate, industrial plants, campuses of higher education, medical centers and (classified / non-classified) government facilities around the world. Established in 1915, AFE remains the leading technical education and credentialing resource for facilities management professionals. Each day we work to advance our mission to provide tools and resources to enhance the expertise and broaden the connections of facility management professionals worldwide.
Just as in social science, for AFE the term built environment refers to the surroundings people construct to provide settings for human activity and interaction, ranging in scale from buildings to parks and can often include their supporting infrastructure such as water supply and energy networks.
The mission of EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
Americans have clean air, land and water; Strives to reduce environmental risks are based on the best available scientific information;
Federal laws protecting human health and the environment are administered and enforced fairly & effectively
All parts of society–communities, individuals, businesses, and state, local and tribal governments–have access
to accurate information sufficient to effectively participate in managing human health and environmental risks.


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The Paris-based artist recently took over Stevenson's Joburg gallery as part of a month-long residency. The result: a surreal and temporary black hole.
Tag: Stevenson Gallery
6 artwork highlights from Joburg Art Fair 2017
10and5's Nikki Zakkas and Stefanie Jason select six artworks that made their cut at the past weekend's FNB Joburg Art Fair 2017.
Conquering fears of queerness: Zanele Muholi's 'Somnyama Ngonyama'
Zanele Muholi has made it her life's work to create a frank yet nuanced documentation of primarily black, LGBTI life in South Africa.


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Για την συλλογή στα Ελληνικά πατήστε εδώ
We say goodbye to 2014 in a sweet way! We present you the very best desserts of the year:tarts, cakes, truffles, cookies for those who have a sweet tooth like us! We hope that you have a great time tonight!May 2015 bring you happiness, health, serenity and may all your dreams come true! Many kisses and love from the Veggie Sisters!
Christmas menu:Vegan chocolate hazelnut cake
Scrumptious healthy orange hazelnut chocolate tart


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Storm Preparedness
Hurricane Dorian: Tracking the Co-op Response
Co-op crews in the Carolinas are restoring power wherever they can do so safely.
Severe Flooding Disrupts Electricity in Arkansas River Valley
With historic flooding in several states, co-ops are working to serve affected communities.
Co-op Fiber and Drone Capability Improve Safety on a Georgia Mountain Pass
How a Georgia co-op built broadband in the peaks of the Appalachian Trail aided by a drone.
Social Media Roundup: See How Co-ops Are Responding to #Michael
Updates and photos from co-op social media channels as co-ops deal with the effects of Michael.
Facing #Florence: Co-ops' Social Media Outreach
Updates and photos from co-op social media profiles in the aftermath of Florence.
Florence Photo Gallery: Scenes From Co-ops' Storm Response
Check out photos of the response to Florence in co-op service territories.
Co-op Power Restoration Efforts Continue Amid Florence's Flooding Threats
Florence is now a major flooding event in the Carolinas and mid-Atlantic, as co-op crews work nons
Information Hub: Electric Co-ops and Florence
A look at the co-ops in the path of Florence, mutual aid efforts and sources for outage info.
Co-ops on the East Coast Brace for Hurricane Florence
With Florence threatening the East Coast, co-ops in the region are urging members to be prepared.
Co-op Crew Chief Pulls Toddler From a Rain-Swollen Ditch
Chastin McLain jumped into action when he spotted a small child splashing around in a ditch.


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Here's a dope fresh track from Brooklyn native Rob: Earth-One, titled Space Needle. On this track, you can expect to hear a mellow track produced by Zeeky Beats. Most importantly, you will be able to tune into his lyrics as if he's reciting poetry that will change your life.
Being that many of his influences are Kanye West, Kid Cudi, and Nas that comes at no surprise. So press play kick back and enjoy. Also, be sure to keep up with all things Rob Earth One as he continues to put out more music via his SoundCloud page. As always keep winning and spread love.


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Announcing my debut album!! Smacht!
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I am delighted to announce that I'm releasing my debut album!
Smacht is the fruit of two years of work and the culmination of lots of hard work and many serendipitous opportunities working with lots of wonderful, talented and generous people. The release is the result of lots of tinkering and experimenting and thinking. Of throwing different ideas at what I think a release could and should be. And figuring out what it was that I loved about the music I've bought. The music was recorded by Kate Ellis, Robin Panter, Adrian Hart, Cora Lunny and Mobius Percussion along with a remix by producer Sean Byrne. It will be out on the 2 April with Ergodos and there are launch events in Amsterdam, Dublin and New York.
Music has always been a form of communication for me and with this release I want to try to convey what I find special about music. To my recent realisation and surprise music has an extremely spiritual dimension for me. It opens a door inside of me and lifts me up to a transcendental state. The music I love allows me to reach out and touch the divine. To stretch out my hand and run my fingertips along to flowing gossamer of eternity, suspended above my mortal being. It frees me from concerns and energises and enhances my existence with the world. What more beautiful thing is there to impart to another human being.
There's lots of things that this album means to me. It's the culmination of a lot of work. The result of much human kindness and belief. An expression of many of my hopes and dreams. A reflection of what I think and believe about humanity and about the world we inhabit. And many, many moments of making myself very vulnerable, both with others and with myself. It's been a wonderfully diverse and interesting experience to get to put something like this out into the world. And I'm very gratefully to all the amazing people who supported me along the way.
My wish with this release is that I can impart some of the same wonderful feelings that have been gifted to me through music to others.
Smacht is available through Ergodos. There will be launch events in Amsterdam, Dublin and New York. I'll be writing more posts over the coming weeks about the process and the different people I got to work to make this album a reality.


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Purple Label
Maxwell in Textured Blue Dot
The twill weave and fun orange contrast stitching put a whimsical and relaxed twist on this pin dot shirt. The Maxwell is uniquely tailored to do away with all the extra fabric around the waist and is suitable for a wide variety of body types.
• Regular Fit: The Maxwell (Trim Regular)
• 100% Cotton
• Cut-Away Collar
• Mitered Barrel Cuff
• Imported
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We accept returns within 30 days and exchanges within 45 days after receiving your order.
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Go to MY RETURNS & EXCHANGES to initiate a return or exchange. Once you complete the process, you will be emailed a prepaid shipping label.
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My creative juices were not flowing this week when I needed to write my article for you. Then I had a question from a friend of mine about the strange things that happen in English — rules have exceptions, spelling is not always as we would predict it and some words have more than one meaning.
I know, things get very confusing at times, even for those of us who have been speaking the language for most of our lives.
Then I remembered my English teacher from my sixth year at school (this would be in 1984 — yes, I am old). She was a very classy lady, who spoke beautiful English even though it was her second language. She always told us that the rules are important but so are the exceptions. She compared it to life: those of us who are not the «norm» or «rule» in life sometimes are a bit more difficult to understand but we still make humanity a lot more interesting.
She gave us this poem to remember some of the exceptions and to laugh at the strange words that could have been if the rules were always followed.
Linguistic humor, The English lesson
We'll begin with box, and the plural is boxes;
But the plural of ox should be oxen, not oxes.
Then one fowl is goose, but two are called geese,
Yet the plural of moose should never be meese.
You may find a lone mouse or a nest full of mice,
Yet the plural of house is houses, not hice.
If the plural of man is always called men,
Why shouldn't the plural of pan be called pen?
The cow in the plural may be cows or kine,
But the plural of vow is vows, not vine.
The rest of the poem you can find here.
Happy speaking, till next week!
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Персональный подход к достижению ваших языковых целей
Программа обучения для учащихся средней школы (5-9 класс)
Языковой курс для студентов выпускных классов (10-11 класс)


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What Makes Instagram Users Happy?
No one can deny that Instagram becomes the social representation of the self. Companies and businesses even use these to ensure that their customers and prospect audience get to socialize with them. In a way, it is still a tool of social representation for many enterprises regardless of their industry and niche.
There are many studies that inform you if a person is depressed based on their Instagram account. There is also another study that says Instagram is not good for the young people's mental health. If you type mental health and social media in Google, you will find many different research pieces suggesting that the use of social media accounts like Facebook and Instagram has a correlation with unhealthy levels of narcissism.
If you look closely, Instagram is not all about presenting yourself in a favorable light. Although studies say that excessive use of social media can yield negative effects to one's mental health, there is no denying that there are multiple and positive uses to Instagram too. Some people use Instagram for many different, yet happy, reasons.
Their Expression of Creativity
Instagram users are happy because they can express their creativity. Since this social media platform is visually driven, creative people can express their artistic abilities. There are so many Instagram users who have gone viral and became very popular because of their creative expression on Instagram. In addition, a picture tells a thousand words.
To some, they use photos and post it on Instagram to express their emotions – whether they are good or bad. In return, the user feels relieved and happy to unload whatever he or she is thinking and feeling.
Their Engagement On A Socially Driven Platform
Instagram is still a social media platform. So when you open your account to the public, you can expect some negativity from online haters. However, people who have kept their accounts private and open only to their followers tend to be more satisfied with their social activity.
They receive less and unnecessary comments and they can candidly speak their mind without the worry of getting backlashes by a random IG user. Furthermore, IG's Direct Message feature allows the users to communicate with one another and omitting other messaging apps that they have used before.
Their Chance to Microblog
People can easily microblog without the need to set up their own website. You have seen this. There are some prominent bloggers who ended up expanding their reach through microblogging on Instagram. KC Stauffer, a mommy blogger, and a social media influencer is one of the most popular microbloggers today.
She shares her family stories and the quirks of her children on IG, and makes sure that she fills up the caption to tell a complete and elaborate story of the moment. Because she is also a professional photographer, you can tell that her Instagram feed is a true representation and expression of a creative mind.
Their Use of IG Stories
Not only you can showcase stunning photos, but you can also share your daily whereabouts, activities and more on your IG stories. Ever since Instagram integrated Snapchat-like features, the users on this platform have spent more time with it.
The filters are fun, and the other features such as the boomerang and slow-mo are constantly used by the people on Instagram too. Businesses share behind-the-scenes and company-related events that their audience may be interested to know about.
Free Use of the App
Anybody can sign up on Instagram for free. Even the companies who acquired for business accounts do not have to pay for their registration. Think about it. Companies that sign up for free can use IG to help them generate income.
Even though it is free, Instagram sustains and thrives with ads, just like Facebook. Most of their income comes from this. Unless you want to publish an ad on Instagram, you can use it endlessly for free!
There are many negative connotations about social media, particularly Instagram. But the reality is, there are some people and establishments who truly benefit from it. As long as people continue to utilize the platform consciously and ethically, they will continue to feel happy using it.


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My three favorite stories in the collection were: "Hello! Welcome to Book Club," "Dead Doormen," and "My Novel is Brought to You by the Good People at Tampax."
With sass, southern charm, snark, and a hint of malice, the short stories contained within American Housewife deliver it all. The stories are a little dark but also hilarious!
My favorite part from "My Novel is Brought to You by the Good People at Tampax":
"Two months in, and I've created three apps." "Apps?" "For people who buy my book as an e-book…the first is called Don't Look. It's for the overly sensitive. It blurs and turns the type red when a dog dies or a baby is born with a birth defect. Stuff like that. My second is It's Not Okay When You Say It, and it delivers and electrical zap if the reader laughs at a racial slur. My third is Jesus Thesaurus, which replaces explicit sexual language with church words. So, when one of my characters saints a guy's disciple, he'll beg her to calvary his Baptists and shout amen."
This story collection is highly entertaining and makes for a quick read!