Dwarf Sports ------ who knew?

The World Dwarf Games in the largest sporting event in history held exclusively for athletes with dwarfism. Its goal is to attract athletes with dwarfism from around the world to participate in sports that include basketball, soccer, track and field, volleyball, swimming, table tennis, badminton, floor hockey, boccia, archery, kurling, powerlifting and marksmanship.  Athletes of all ages and every level of ability will be encouraged to participate in team and individual sports and explore their own athletic abilities with others of similar stature. 

Faces of Otsi, The Ice Man

Reconstructions

Otsi is a well-preserved natural mummy of a 45 year man who lived about 3,300 BC probably in southern Europe.

The mummy, wearing sophisticated clothes, had several tattoos,  was found in September 1991 in the Ötztal Alps on the border between Austria and Italy. He is Europe's oldest natural human mummy and died from injuries received from an arrow wound.  His face has been reconstructed twice, with the 2011 employing new technology.

pileated woodpecker

Had me three of ’em red headed peckers in my backyard this am  fussing up a storm calling “yip yip yip yip yip yip yip” at one another. They’er said to be very rare birds????

Censorship

speaking of the Brazilian rain forest meet Crystal Ramsey

jpr: Early fall, well before the 1st semester began,  Crystal paid a visit to my office at the university. Memory recalls that she was just beginning her junior year.  We sat and talked of fellow students, past classes, and her ensuing course schedule. I said, "Crystal you look quite pale and thin. Have you been sick recently?"

She began her tale of recently returning from  vacation in the Amazon where she had been lost for a week in the jungle (rain forest.). During this time she repeatedly wanted to commit suicide but her companion refused to give her his pen knife for such. No water and half a box of tic-tacs where their only provisions. The bugs bit them day and night!

She was a solid hard working student. After graduation, she moved to California.

http://old.post-gazette.com/World/20020902amazon0902p2.asp

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

The longest word (45 lettters) in the english language....better known as Black Lung Disease.

Perhaps proving that brevity can be a healthy habit?

My only worry is that Mikey may contract this dreaded word halfway through reading it....Oh is he ill!!!

neanderthal brain scan

jpr: I am doing a bit better than this guy

Sun spot 1476

I asked my physics class as a final report to do a paper on  #1476, Wow wee those kids are good.!

Irish Wish

These things I wish for you.
Someone to love
Some work to do,
A bit of sun,
A bit of cheer,
And a guardian angel
always near.

-- Anonymous

appalachian rose

just a beautiful wildflower..that means it be free

A Little Budding Rose by Emily Bronte

It was a little budding rose,
Round like a fairy globe,
And shyly did its leaves unclose
Hid in their mossy robe,
But sweet was the slight and spicy smell
It breathed from its heart invisible.
.....

Australian Woman's National Team

My pick for the World Cup final.

Thank you

Blog nearing 200,000 views!!

Irish yoke

Irishman walks into a pub. He orders 4 double shots of whisky and a pint of Guinness.

The bar man pours out the shots and lines the 4 glasses in a row. He then moves away to procur the pint of Guinness. Upon his return he is surprised to see the four shot glasses empty before the Irishman.

"Jeepers you drank that whisky fast."

The Irishman replies." And you would be drinking just as fast if you had what I have!"

The bar man asks. " just what do you have?"

" 50 cents" the man replies.

Made in the UK; Vincent Black Lightning

Fastest in the World at the time (circa 1948)

June flowers

Ah yes!  We are back!

broken mary statue kevin matthews

In 2008, Kevin Matthews, a well-known ABC and CBS radio personality in Chicago, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. As the drive-time radio host for seventeen years on AM 1000 The Loop and ABC and CBS radio, and also the voice of his sports commentator, Jim Shorts, and other characters, Matthews entertained ten million listeners weekly, sold out every appearance in the Midwest, and performed in front of 65,000 fans at Grant Park. He traveled around the world, met the famous, had babies named after him, and helped countless charities. He entertained hundreds of thousands of people inside prisons, army bases, and backyards. His promotions included comedy jams, a band, barbeque throw downs, and golf outings.

Broken Mary is Matthews’ story of his early years in radio and stand-up comedy, his successful career, his struggle with MS, his awakening to the dignity of women, and, importantly, his chance encounter with a broken statue of Mary left next to a dumpster and all that happened as a result. Told with Matthews’ signature good humor, this confession of the brokenness of mankind is touchingly honest, personally inspiring, and full of hope.

I'm for it!!

Les Enfants

We take care of our children,
We do not possess them,
They do not belong to us,
They belong to God.


--Bonnie

On an Irish hill top

   The lambs on the green hills, they sport and they play    
And many strawberries grow round the salt sea
How sad is my heart when my own love's away
How many's the ship sails the ocean

The bride and the bride's party, to church they did go
The bride she rode foremost, she bears the best show
And I followed after with my heart filled with woe
For to see my love wed to another


traditional Irish          jpr: this is likey a redo but me loves it I do!

my hero section

Charles Payne

Raised in the projects in NYC. Charles at a young age wanted to be a business man. His peers ridiculed him as a young student as he carried his homework to/from school in an inexpensive  plastic brief case.  He is now working millions.

Payne attended Minot State College and Central Texas College during his time in the United States Air Force. In 1991, He founded a company named  "Wall Street Strategies", an independent stock market research firm where he serves as chief executive officer and principal analyst.  He also anchors his own TV show on Fox Business Channel.

Pentecost

rose petals dropping from atop the Parthanon in Rome on Pentacost is a tradition since the 7 th century.

queen nefertiti

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9PSMNKVWMA

The step mother and mother in law to the Pharaoh King Tut. Her great beauty signified Nefertiti as great god to the egyptians. She is believed to have followed Tut to the throne upon his death.

jpr: She had six gorgeous daughters so the tale goes.

play

jpr: We too yet have the need!

funny

Funny Quotes

“Atheism is a non-prophet organization.”

“Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time.”

“Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another.”

--George Carlin

Have u seen this man in old westerns?

Irish American actor in 50s and 60s

Who knew?

In ancient Egypt, servants were smeared with honey to keep flies away from the P haro

bee hummingbird eggs

Low in cholesterol!

Yep, that's a turtle in his mouth

Iowa researchers have implemented an innovative method to help conserve a species that once thrived on the state's prairies. Ornate box turtles are at a significant risk because of climate change, so a retired schoolteacher has trained his hunting dogs to find the reptiles. Counting the creatures will help conservationists better manage the land. 
 

Recipe for Lo-calorie desert

If this all you're going to eat for a day, have 10 of these, but no more.

lego, from the Danish phrase leg godt, which means "play well".

i've been a big fan since my kids were little.  The Hawking lego reminded me of this pet snail from the movie "Mary and Max (voiced by Seymour Hoffman)".  Max has three snails, all named after famous scientists.

Modern anchorite

Yet now I am an anchorite, as was Julian of Norwich, and for one precious year the bishop locked me in. I had a bed area, a shower room, an enclosed garden of 10 square feet, and my oratory with the wicket window opening into our chapel. I had stable doors, the top half being under my control, the lower half locked. I was a “prisoner of the Lord”: no radio, phone, or internet. 
  
The practice has returned to England apparently.

Morena Baccarin

A young American actress who played in TV series Firefly. Mother is Brazilian,and father is Italian. The series was short lived but has a devoted following.

jogging in appalachia

jpr: Serenity is rarely disturbed by snakes, wolves, and coyotes.

a joke

A middle aged man is on a sea cruise when he notices a handsome woman watching him.
After several such occasions the man approaches the woman.

Man; "Good day madam! Do I know you?"
Woman; "You don't know how much you look like my third husband!"
Man: "Really! How many time were you married?"
Woman: "Twice!"