THE IRON HORSE

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Gehrig’s consecutive games played streak ended May 2, 1939. He never played another major league game.
Just over a month later, on Gehrig’s 36th birthday, it was announced that he had a rare, incurable disease: amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS. Two days later, the Yankees announced his retirement from baseball. Many diseases, such as Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s, are named for the scientists who identified them. Only Lou Gehrig’s Disease is named for a victim.
In a story published July 30, 1939, Daily News sportswriter Hy Turkin wrote of Gehrig’s speech, “If there were any angels perched on the fleecy clouds over Yankee Stadium on the sunblessed afternoon of July 4, 1939, they must have wept… That speech, objectively, was one of the greatest in history.” The address is often called the "Luckiest Man" speech (taking a phrase Gehrig used within to describe himself) and as Gehrig's farewell address. Less than two years after Lou Gehrig Appreciation Day, 17 days shy of his 38th birthday, Gehrig died.

PROVERBS

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Musk scent is used to describe an odor from a glandular secretion of an animal or human. Musky is the correct term for somebody who needs a shower because they have Body Odor.

BLESS YOUR HEARTS

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Thie Voting Rights Act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting. This “act to enforce the Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution” was signed into law 95 years after the amendment was ratified. In those years, African Americans in the South faced tremendous obstacles to voting, including poll taxes, literacy tests, and other bureaucratic restrictions to deny them the right to vote. They also risked harassment, intimidation, economic reprisals, and physical violence when they tried to register or vote. As a result, African American voter registration was limited, along with their political power.

MAG

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Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, and Google have reportedly signed the Large Energy Consumers Pledge to support the tripling of nuclear energy volume by 2050.  Meta, Amazon, and Google are becoming more vital drivers of the US energy demand, as they are building artificial intelligence centers. Other major companies, such as Occidental and IHI Corp, also included their names in the pledge.

WINNING

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While winning is not everything, it is satisfying to learn we are correct in some things and on the right side of history.

The single most important thing we can do to win an argument, for example, is to allow the other person to explain their point of view without interruptions.

Let them speak first, it will make them more perceptive when we speak..

Once they present their POV, do not make it personal. It will anger the individual and make them less likely to concede.

CRUCIAL ACT

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What are we talking about? ⚤ THE POWER OF READING

TIME FOR GOODBYES?

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While scientists at NASA and other space agencies routinely track potentially hazardous near-Earth asteroids, the telescopes can’t spot rocks in a suborbital path with Venus due to the sun’s glare, which shields them like a cosmic cloaking device

PUBLIC FIGHT

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There is a constitutional and political debate over government funding of media and the implications for the First Amendment, which protects freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

BUENA VISTA = GOOD VIEW

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The Broadway version brings these songs to life in a fresh format: younger actors channeling the essence of musicians decades older, the Tiny Desk adaptation keeps the intimacy and grooves but in a stripped-down, soulful way.