An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...
Yesterday a 5.8 magnitude earthquake occurred on the east coast of the U.S. The earthquake was felt from southern Virginia all the way to Canada and did not miss the NY Metropolitan area.
MOTHER TERESA'S WAY
For her 101 birthday, a portion near Pelham Parkway in Bronx is renamed Mother Teresa Way.
The special sign is at the corner of Lydig avenue and Holland avenue honors Mother Teresa's massive missionary work on behalf of the poor, sick and orphaned.
AUDITIONS - CITY ISLAND THEATER GROUP
The Crucible
By Arthur Miller
Direction by
Maria Provenzano & Nick Sala
Where's Qaddafi and Who Are These Rebels?
Where is the world is Moamamar? Who are these rebels?
In 1999, Qaddafi escaped judgment by turning over two underlings to pay for his criminal murder of 270 innocent people eleven years earlier in 1988.
In 1988 Qaddafi murdered all 243 passengers and 16 crew members on Pan Am Flight 103, which he had bombed. In addition he killed Eleven people in Lockerbie, Scotland, who died as large sections of the plane fell on the town and destroyed several houses.
It would have been nice if NATO had taken Qaddafi out back in 1988, or even in 1999.
QUAKE - HURRICANE WARNING
Since at least 1774, people in central Virginia have felt small earthquakes and suffered some damage from infrequent larger ones. The largest damaging earthquake magnitude 4.8 in the seismic zone occurred in 1875. Smaller earthquakes that cause little or no damage are felt each year or two.
US Representative Eric Cantor has been pushing for budget cuts to USGS, NOAA.
8/23 5.9 quake today...Epicenter: @ Cantor's district... Hurricane on the way.
Rep. Cantor, Eric [R-VA7]
District 7 Map
State of Virginia
District: 7th Congressional District
Party: Republican
TWITTER ACCOUNTS TO FOLLOW
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DID YOU FEEL THE EARTH MOVE?
Did you feel the earthquake? Although the east coast usually does not get quakes in the area, the USGS reports a 5.9 earthquake striking, with the epicenter near Richmond, Virginia., according to a U.S. Geological Survey spokesperson.
The earthquake sent tremors from the nation’s capital to New York City Tuesday afternoon, the result of what officials said was an earthquake based in Virginia.
NOBODY LIKES BUSY BODIES
They can be fat, skinny, tall, short, young, old, male, female, clerk or senior manager, busybodies come in all shapes, sizes, industries and job titles. That's part of their skill.
Busybodies aren't always easy to identify at first, and before you know it they've become our confidants who know everything about us. They can then make life unpleasant when they decide to use their knowledge to get their way or just to spread rumors.
NICE AND EASY DOES IT
Individuals who are regularly stressed out by inconsiderate people around the are more likely to keep that stress with them. and pass it on to whoever is unfortunate enough to be near them.
People who experience such incivility keep the stress, negative emotion and perceived ostracism that results from those experiences, which then affects more than their daily lives – it also creates problems for their health and their well being.
ARE WE WHAT WE CONSUME?
There is a notion that to stay fit and healthy we need to consume good food and content.
This phrase has come to us via quite a tortuous route. Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826: Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
In an essay entitled Concerning Spiritualism and Materialism, 1863/4, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote: 'man is what he eats'.