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November 22, 2009

1909 Ford Model R - The world 101 years ago

The world was different in 1909... 101 years ago.

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Show this to your
children and/or grandchildren
1909 FORD Model R
THE YEAR 1909
This will boggle your mind, I know it did mine!
The year is 1909.
One hundred years ago.
What a difference a century makes! Here are some statistics for the Year 1909 :
************ ********* ********* ******
The average life expectancy was
47 years.
Only 14 percent of the homes had a bathtub.
Only 8 percent of the homes had a telephone.
There were only 8,000 cars and
only 144 miles of paved roads.
The maximum speed limit in most cities was 10 mph.
The tallest structure in the world was the Eiffel Tower
The average wage in 1909 was 22 cents per hour.
The average worker made between $200 and $400 per year ...
A competent accountant could expect to earn $2000 per year,
A dentist $2,500 per year,  
A veterinarian between $1,500 and $4,000 per year,
A mechanical engineer about $5,000 per year..
More than 95 percent of all births took place at HOME.
Ninety percent of all doctors had  NO COLLEGE EDUCATION!
Instead, they attended so-called medical schools, many of which
Were condemned in the press AND the government as 'substandard’.
 
Sugar cost four cents a pound.
Eggs were fourteen cents a dozen.
Coffee was fifteen cents a pound.
Most women only washed their hair once a month, and used
Borax or egg yolks for shampoo.
Canada passed a law that prohibited poor people from
Entering into their country for any reason..
Five leading causes of death were:
1. Pneumonia and influenza
2. Tuberculosis
3. Diarrhea
4. Heart disease
5. Stroke
The American flag had 45 stars.
The population of Las Vegas , Nevada was only 30 !! 
Crossword puzzles, canned beer, and ice tea
Hadn't been invented yet.
There was no Mother's Day or Father's Day.
Two out of every 10 adults couldn't read or write.
Only 6 percent of all Americans had graduated from high school.
Marijuana, heroin, and morphine were all available
over the counter at the local corner drugstores.
Back then pharmacists said, "Heroin clears the complexion, gives buoyancy to the mind,
regulates the stomach and bowels and is, in fact, a perfect guardian of health."
( Shocking?  )
Eighteen percent of households had at least one full-time servant or domestic help.

 
 
There were about 230 reported murders in the ENTIRE   U.S.A.!

Now I'm forwarding this to someone else without typing it myself.
From there, it will be sent to others all over the WORLD - all in a matter of seconds!
Try to imagine what it may be like in another 100 years.
IT STAGGERS THE MIND
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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November 21, 2009

Nov 21: Waste Reduction Week - through to Nov 29th (Europe)

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November 18, 2009

"Pandepic" - A new word for the times

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Deborah <deborah@jeffcoscribe.com> wrote:

I’d like to coin a new word:

“Pandepic” – Health news spun in such a way that it creates big-time drama and spans generations beyond its normal course of action.  Unlike its classic counterpart, a pandepic’s main character may be an inanimate object (such as a pharmaceutical product or a piece of legislation) with conflicting character traits making it unclear whether it is hero, anti-hero, or simply a prop or symbol inflated to demigod status.

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November 16, 2009

What's in a name... Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry

Genealogists stumble on accidental names all the time!  This story is a rather humorus example of what can, and often does, happen.  Accidental misunderstandings at immigration often become permanently embedded for life.

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---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yan <yanali2008@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:55 AM
Subject: [Facilitators At Work] Fwd: Moishe Plotnik's Laundry - a true story
To: "Fac@work" <facilitators_at_work@yahoogroups.com>


LOL! I'm sure you'll find some use for this -- attention to detail, assumption, verification, etc. Thanks Taaherah :D

Begin forwarded message:

From: Zuraimi Zainuddin 
Date: October 7, 2009 12:17:53 PM GMT+03:00
Subject: Fw: Moishe Plotnik's Laundry - a true story


Thanks Kak Hindon



Moishe Plotnik's Laundry
(a true story)

Walking through  San Francisco 's Chinatown, a tourist  from the  Midwest was enjoying the artistry of all the  Chinese restaurants, shops, signs and banners......

When he turned a corner and saw a building with the sign'Moishe Plotnik'sLaundry.'

'Moishe Plotnik?' he wondered. 'How does
that belong in  Chinatown ?'

He walked into the shop and saw a fairly standard looking drycleaner, althoughhe could see that the proprietors were clearly aware of the uniqueness of the store name as there were baseball hats, T-shirts and coffee mugs emblazoned with the logo'Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry.'  The tourist selected a coffee cup as a conversation piece to take back to his office. Behind the counter was a smiling old Chinese gentleman who thanked him for his purchase.

The tourist asked, 'Can you explain how this place got a name like 'Moishe Plotnik's Laundry?''

The old man answered, 'Ah..Evleebody ask me dat. It name of owner.'

Looking around, the tourist asked, 'Is he here now?'

'Its me, Me him!' replied the old man.



 
'Really? You're Chinese. How did you ever get a Jewish name like Moishe Plotnik?'
'
It simple' said the old man. 'Many, many year ago I come to thes country. I standing in line at Documentation Center of Immigration.'
Man in front of me was Jewish man from  Poland .'


'Lady at counter look at him and say to him, 'What your name?'
He say to her, 'Moishe Plotnik.'
Then she look at me and say, 'What your name?'

I say,'Sam Ting.'

  

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November 16, 2009

What's in a name... Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry

Genealogists stumble on accidental names all the time!  This story is a rather humorus example of what can, and often does, happen.  Accidental misunderstandings at immigration often become permanently embedded for life.

/e

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Yan <yanali2008@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 1:55 AM
Subject: [Facilitators At Work] Fwd: Moishe Plotnik's Laundry - a true story
To: "Fac@work" <facilitators_at_work@yahoogroups.com>


LOL! I'm sure you'll find some use for this -- attention to detail, assumption, verification, etc. Thanks Taaherah :D

Begin forwarded message:

From: Zuraimi Zainuddin 
Date: October 7, 2009 12:17:53 PM GMT+03:00
Subject: Fw: Moishe Plotnik's Laundry - a true story


Thanks Kak Hindon



Moishe Plotnik's Laundry
(a true story)

Walking through  San Francisco 's Chinatown, a tourist  from the  Midwest was enjoying the artistry of all the  Chinese restaurants, shops, signs and banners......

When he turned a corner and saw a building with the sign'Moishe Plotnik'sLaundry.'

'Moishe Plotnik?' he wondered. 'How does
that belong in  Chinatown ?'

He walked into the shop and saw a fairly standard looking drycleaner, althoughhe could see that the proprietors were clearly aware of the uniqueness of the store name as there were baseball hats, T-shirts and coffee mugs emblazoned with the logo'Moishe Plotnik's Chinese Laundry.'  The tourist selected a coffee cup as a conversation piece to take back to his office. Behind the counter was a smiling old Chinese gentleman who thanked him for his purchase.

The tourist asked, 'Can you explain how this place got a name like 'Moishe Plotnik's Laundry?''

The old man answered, 'Ah..Evleebody ask me dat. It name of owner.'

Looking around, the tourist asked, 'Is he here now?'

'Its me, Me him!' replied the old man.



 
'Really? You're Chinese. How did you ever get a Jewish name like Moishe Plotnik?'
'
It simple' said the old man. 'Many, many year ago I come to thes country. I standing in line at Documentation Center of Immigration.'
Man in front of me was Jewish man from  Poland .'


'Lady at counter look at him and say to him, 'What your name?'
He say to her, 'Moishe Plotnik.'
Then she look at me and say, 'What your name?'

I say,'Sam Ting.'

 




       
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November 9, 2009

This explains why I forward stuff

*This explains why I forward stuff.*

*
**A man and his dog were walking along a road. The man was enjoying the
scenery, when it suddenly occurred to him that he was dead.*


*He remembered dying, and that the dog walking beside him had been dead
for
years. He wondered where the road was leading them.*

*After a while, they came to a high, white stone wall along one side of
the
road. It looked like fine marble. At the top of a long hill, it was
broken
by a tall arch that glowed in the sunlight.*

*When he was** **standing before it he saw a magnificent gate in the
arch
that looked like mother-of-pearl, and the street that led to the gate
looked
like pure gold. He and the dog walked toward the gate, and as *h*e got
closer, he saw a man at a desk to one side.*

**

*When he was close enough, he called out, 'Excuse me, where are we?'*

*'This is Heaven, sir,' the man answered. 'Wow! Would you happen to have
some water?' the man asked.*

*Of course, sir. Come right in, and I'll have some ice water brought
right
up. `The man gestured, and the gate began to open.*


*'Can my friend,' gesturing toward his dog, 'come in, too?' the traveler
asked.*

*'I'm sorry, sir, but we don't accept pets.'*

*The man thought a moment and then turned back toward the road and
continued
the way he had been going with his dog.**
** **

***

*After another long walk, and at the top of another long hill, he came
to a
dirt road leading through a farm gate that looked as if it had never
been
closed. There was no fence.*

*As he approached the gate, he saw a man inside, leaning against a tree
and
reading a book.*


*'Excuse me!' he called to the man. 'Do you have any water?'*

*'Yeah, sure, there's a pump over there, come on in.'*

*'How about my friend here?' the traveler gestured to the dog.*


*'There should be a bowl by the pump.'*


*They went through the gate, and sure enough, there was an old-fashioned
hand pump with a bowl beside it.**
** **

***

*The traveler filled the water bowl and took a long drink himself, then
he
gave some to the dog.**
*

**

*When they were full, he and the dog walked back toward the man who was
standing by the tree *

*'What do you call this place?' the traveler asked.*


*'This is Heaven,' he answered.*


*'Well, that's confusing,' the traveler said. 'The man down the road
said
that was Heaven, too.'*


*'Oh, you mean the place with the gold street and pearly gates? Nope..
That's hell.'**
*

*'Doesn't it make you mad for them to use your name like that'*


*'No, we're just happy that they screen out the folks who would leave
their
best friends behind.'*

*Soooo...*


*Sometimes, we wonder why friends keep forwarding jokes to us without
writing a word.*

**

*Maybe this will explain.*


*When you are very busy, but still want to keep in touch, guess what you
do?
You forward jokes.*

*When you have nothing to say, but just want to keep in contact, you
forward
jokes.*

*When you have something to say, but don't know what, and don't know
how,
you forward jokes.*

*Also to let you know that you are still remembered, you are still
important,
you are still loved, you are still cared for, guess what you get?*


*A forwarded joke.*


*So, next time if you get a joke, don't think that you've been sent just
another forwarded joke, but that you've been thought of today and your
friend on the other end of your computer wanted to send you a smile.**
** *
*And, yes. You are all welcome @ my water bowl anytime!*

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November 9, 2009

BUTTER - Inflation Continues and Few are Aware

Butter Inflation Continues and Few are Aware

On Friday, November 6, 2009, the wholesale
price at which butter traded on Chicago's
Mercantile commodity exchange closed at
$1.50 per pound.

On September 11, 2009, less than two
months ago, butter was trading at $1.17
per pound. A Notmilk column predicted:

"...wholesale price increases will be so
rapid and dramatic that processors will
react with overnight price increases."

"The economic illness that America is
about to experience and the suffering
which follows will be unprecedented..."

http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/3385

The wholesale price for butter has
increased 33 cents, or 28 percent in
just 67 days. That's equivalent to
a yearly increase of 153.6 percent.

Why is it that nobody in the news media
seems to have yet noticed the "I" word
when it comes to the higher prices consumers
are now paying for processed supermaket
foods?

Why is it that the "I" word was not a part
of any politician's political platform during
last week's elections?

Why is it that every shopper who keeps
track of supermarket prices and weekly
increases is painfully aware that Inflation
applies to just about everything except
for weekly take home pay?

I paid 49 cents per pound for bananas at
my local supermarket yesterday (ShopRite,
Emerson, NJ). I paid 59 cents per pound
for apples and 99 cents for a head of
Romaine at my local produce store.

It takes no butter to produce apples
or lettuce. Another argument for eating
a plant-based diet during these challenging
economic times!

Robert Cohen
i4crob@earthlink.net


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November 8, 2009

November's project... freecycling

From Green Tech... November's project... freecycling
http://twitter.com/FullCircles/status/5531664220

The 19th-century English decorative artist William Morris once said...  
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."  
 
And yet, inevitably, our homes seem to fill up with things that are neither useful nor beautiful. 
Or perhaps they were once useful, or once beautiful, but aren't anymore, and haven't been 
for a long time, and yet still, we find ourselves hanging on to them, out of habit, if nothing else. 
 
One of the easiest—and interestingly, most rewarding—ways to get rid of those things is 
freecycling. 

Here are 40+ different freecycling venues in the Ottawa/Eastern Ontario area.

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November 5, 2009

Collaborating across countries, cultures and time zones

In the modern, global 2009 world of business, government, education, and
enterprise of any kind, outsourcing and International co-working, 
collaboration, and cooperation are essential, emerging every-day realities.

Companies outsource work to other countries in distant parts of the world.
They market internationally.  Other countries have different cultures, and
they celebrate different events, and have very different statutory holiday
schedules.

One of the implications seldom properly considered is scheduling.  The
planning/scheduling impacts of a simple thing like holidays can be huge.

Just as a simple example, consider an American company that outsources
work to organizations in China and Pakistan and has a substantial amount
of sales in Canada.  All of the organizations and stakeholders involved in
this global trading arrangement, if they need to work together and
collaborate, need to think of the impact of the calendar on scheduling.  
Phone calls, meetings... any events that involve co-working in real time 
need to be carefully planned with due consideration for holidays.

To illustrate the impact, we created a holiday "mashup" for the countries
involved in our hypothetical global trading arrangement - USA, Canada,
Pakistan, China -  http://bit.ly/2YNWM7

The example is from 2008, but you'll get the idea.  Although no country in
our example has more than 10 statutory holidays, there were 31 different
schedule alert days in 2008... days on which one or more of the employee
populations are on holiday... they have statutory time off and are most
probably not available for a meeting or a phone call.

Collaborative, coordinated events involving ALL the partners weren't
possible on 31 different days of 2008.  And to complicate things further,
the events don't always happen on the same dates every year.  The countries
use different calendars - some solar; some lunar.  2009 will not be the same
as 2008.  It's complicated... Just when you have it figured out, it changes
again.

Enter STE's Multicultural calendar.  Now in its 17th edition, the calendar
features over 550 events from different religions, cultures, countries 
around the world.  The calendar helps organizations, teams, and work groups
plan more effectively, quickly and proactively whenever there is a need to 
consider, collaborate, and co-work across countries and cultures.

The calendar is available in various formats -- paper wall/desk calendars;
downloads for Palm/Blackberry / Outlook; electronic Intranet/Extranet
calendars.

For more information or for a demo intranet calendar, visit:
 http://www.diversitynet.org

Also visit our blog and our twitter page:
http://calendarwallah.posterous.com
http://twitter.com/calendarwallah

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http://diversitynet.org
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November 4, 2009

Nine Most Unique Churches ..well worth viewing and reading..

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Date: Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 9:20 AM
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Nine Most Unique Churches ..well worth viewing and reading..

 


 


 

                                                                       Nine Most Unique Churches.

 

 

 Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church


Harajuku: Japanese Futuristic Church
This futuristic non Catholic church is located in Tokyo and it was first unveiled by the design firm of Ciel Rouge Creation in 2005. The ceiling is specially made to reverberate natural sound for 2 seconds to provide a unique listening experience for worshipers and tourists.



Saint Basil's Cathedral: The Red Square's Colorful Church


The St. Basil's Cathedral is located on the Red Square in Moscow, Russia.
A Russian Orthodox church, the Cathedral sports a series of colorful bulbous domes that taper to a point, aptly named onion domes, that are part of Moscow's Kremlin skyline.  The cathedral was commissioned by Ivan the Terrible to commemorate the capture of the Khanate of Kazan. In 1588 Tsar Fedor Ivanovich had a chapel added on the eastern side above the grave of Basil Fool for Christ, A Russian Orthodox saint after whom the cathedral was popularly named.

 

 


Hallgrímskirkja: Iceland's Most Amazing Church


The Hallgrímskirkja (literally, the church of Hallgrímur) is a Lutheran parish church located in Reykjavík, Iceland.  At 74.5 metres (244 ft), it is the fourth tallest architectural structure in Iceland. The church is named after the Ice-landic poet and clergyman Hallgrímur Pétursson (1614 to 1674), author of the Passion Hymns.  State Architect Guðjón Samúelsson's design of the church was commissioned in 1937; it took 38 years to build it.



Cathedral of Brasília: The Modern Church of architect Oscar Niemeyer


The Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida in the capital of Brazilis an expression of the architect Oscar Niemeyer.  This concrete-framed hyper-boloid structure, seems with its glass roof to be reaching up,  Open, to heaven. On  31 May 1970, the Cathedral's structure was finished, and only the 70 m diameter of the circular area were visible.  Niemeyer's project of Cathedral of Brasília is based in the hyperboloid of revolution which sections are asymmetric.  The hyperboloid structure itself is a result of 16 identical assembled concrete columns.  These columns, having hyperbolic section and weighing 90 t, represent two hands moving upwards to heaven.  

The Cathedral was dedicated on 31 May 1970.


 

 



Borgund Church: Best Preserved Stave Church


The Borgund Stave Church in Lærdal is the best preserved of Norway's 28 extant stave churches.  This wooden church, probably built in the end of the 12th century, has not changed structure or had a major reconstruction since the date it was built.  The church is also featured as a Wonder for the Viking civilization in the video game Age of Empires II: The Age of Kings.



Las Lajas Cathedral: A Gothic Church Worthy of a Fairy Tale


 


The Las Lajas Cathedral is located in southern Colombia and built in 1916 inside the canyon of the Guaitara River.  According to the legend, this was the place where an Indian woman named María Mueses de Quiñones was carrying her deaf-mute daughter Rosa on her back near Las Lajas ("The Rocks").
Weary of the climb, the María sat down on a rock when Rosa spoke (for the first time) about an apparition in a cave.  Later on, a mysterious painting of the Virgin Mary carrying a baby was discovered on the wall of the cave.  Supposedly, studies of the painting showed no proof of paint or pigments on the rock,  instead, when a core sample was taken, it was found that the colors were impregnated in the rock itself to a depth of several feet.  Whether true or not, the legend spurred the building of this amazing church.


St. Joseph Church: Known for its Thirteen Gold Domed Roof


 


The St.. Joseph The Betrothed is an Ukrainian Greek- Catholic Church in Chicago.  Built in 1956, it is most known for its ultra-modern thirteen gold domed roof symbolizing the twelve Apostles and Jesus Christ as the largest center dome. The interior of the church is completely adorned with Byzantine style icons (frescoes). Unfortunately the iconographer was deported back to his homeland before he was able to write the names of all the saints as pre-scribed by iconographic traditions.



Ruica Church: Where Chandeliers are made of Bullet Shells


 


Located over the Kalemegdan Fortress in Belgrade, Serbia, the Ru¸ica Church is a small chapel decorated with... with trench art!  Its chandeliers are entirely made of spent bullet casing, swords, and cannon parts. The space the church now occupies was used by the Turks as gunpowder storage for over 100 years and it had to be largely rebuilt in 1920 after WWI. Though damaged by bombings there was an upshot to the terrible carnage of The Great War. While fighting along side England and the US, Serbian soldiers on the Thessaloniki front took the time to put together these amazing chandeliers. It is one of the world's finest examples of trench art.



Chapel of St-Gildas: Built into the base of a bare rocky cliff


 


The Chapel of St-Gildas sits upon the bank of the Canal du Blavet in Brittany, France. Built like a stone barn into the base of a bare rocky cliff, this was once a holy place of the Druids.

St. Gildas appears to have traveled widely throughout the Celtic world of Corwall, Wales, Ireland and Scotland.  
He arrived in Brittany in about AD 540 and is said to have preached Christianity  to the people from a rough pulpit, now contained within the chapel.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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