Archive for January 2nd, 2010

Answers To Quiz:

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know the score or the leader until the contest ends: Boxing
 


2. North American landmark constantly moving backward.

Niagara Falls
- The rim is worn down about two and a half feet each year because of the millions of gallons of water that rush over it every minute.
 
3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on their own for
several growing seasons: Asparagus and rhubarb.



4.
The fruit with its seeds on the outside: Strawberry.

5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It grew inside the bottle. The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are small, and are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the entire growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the stems.
 


6. Three English words beginning with dw: Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.

7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar: Period, comma, colon, semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark, exclamation point, quotation mark, brackets, parenthesis, braces, and ellipses.

8. The only vegetable or fruit never sold frozen, canned, processed, cooked, or in any other form but fresh: Lettuce.

9. Six or more things you can wear on your feet beginning with ‘S’: Shoes, socks, sandals, sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes, stockings, stilts.

A Matter is Merely Energy and A Smile

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

One of my goals with my Blog is to share with you things I have come across that I feel helps me to become a better person and I hope that they impact you the same way. It has been said that knowledge is power.  They are dead wrong.  The constructive use of knowledge is power.  To that end we all need to be learning everyday and then use and share that knowledge. 

I just watched a short video, about 5 minutes long, which made some excellent points.  It does come with a warning for people who are easily offended by poor use of language.  Look past that, listen to all of it and let me know what you think.  On the same page was reference to another short film, 16 minutes, which I saw months ago.  You must watch it!  Below is the link to both videos and a summary of the second. 

http://evolutionezine.com/bill-hicks/

So many of us live our lives thinking that The Secret to a happy successful life is “Out There” somewhere What if — in 2010 — we decide to experiment with the idea that there is no “Secret” that needs to be discovered “Out There” — what if we live as though everything we ever dreamed of can be found simply by being happy and sharing that which is always available to us…A Smile

“Validation” is a heart warming 16 minute movie that shows us the power we have to uplift others. Highly recommended. (Click the title to see a bigger screen). Starring TJ Thyne & Vicki Davis. Writer/Director/Composer — Kurt Kuenne. Winner — Best Narrative Short, Cleveland Int’l Film Festival, Winner — Jury Award, Gen Art Chicago Film Festival, Winner — Audience Award, Hawaii Int’l Film Festival, Winner — Best Short Comedy, Breckenridge Festival of Film, Winner — Crystal Heart Award, Best Short Film & Audience Award, Heartland Film Festival, Winner — Christopher & Dana Reeve Audience Award, Williamstown Film Festival, Winner — Best Comedy, Dam Short Film Festival, Winner — Best Short Film, Sedona Int’l Film Festival.  http://evolutionezine.com/will-make-you-smile/