Great moment in History.  Even if you are not a baseball fan, you will love this.  Especially if you are a veteran or a person that loves the USA. Great memory! Enjoy!

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   YOWZERONI-WOWZERONI! What a magnificent act! Thank you, Paul!

     Spoken like a true Cardinal fan! Thanks, Nathaniel!

Music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0A7jAVDPJU
Carly Simon-Coming Around Again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS1g8G_njx8
Ariana Grande - Problem ft. Iggy Azalea

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBxEwrw_7A4
Carole King-Tapestry

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Jokes

My son had absentmindedly left his sneakers on our kitchen table. "That's disgusting," my husband yelled. "Doesn't he realize that we eat off that table?"

Then he went back to work on the car. I cleaned the table and left to do my grocery shopping. When I came home, I couldn't set my bags down anywhere. Sitting in the middle of the kitchen table was a carburetor.

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It was very windy, and this particular little girl was only six years old and small for her age. When her mother asked her to clean off the front sidewalk, the wind nearly blew her away. She picked up the broom countless times, but each time, the wind got the best of her and knocked her over.

Her mother came out a few minutes later to see how she was doing and found her stuffing rocks in her pocket. "I thought you were cleaning off the sidewalk," her mother said. "What in the world are you doing?"

The little girl replied: "Now? I weigh me down to sweep."

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Our first day at a resort, my wife and I decided to hit the beach. When I went back to our room to get something to drink, one of the hotel maids was making our bed. I grabbed my cooler, but not being sure of the hotel rules I stopped at the door and asked the maid, "Can we drink beer on the beach?"

"Sure," the maid replied, "but I have to finish the rest of the rooms first."

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Great Quotes

"It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognize, accept, and celebrate those differences."
- Audre Lorde

"Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar."
- Theodor Adorno

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view."
- Harper Lee

"Share our similarities, celebrate our differences."
- M. Scott Peck

"As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others."
- Robert H. Schuller

"The essence of compassion is accepting others as unique individuals, without believing that they are less good for not being carbon copies of ourselves."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When we have expectations (demands), we think we know how people SHOULD behave, and we can have no compassion. Only after we accept that another person's uniquely "right" path does not follow our own preconceptions, we can be compassionate.

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Living Green-Health Tips:

Good morning,

It's true. A lot of people are overweight. This is certainly one of the reasons for the proliferation of gyms, health clubs and fitness facilities in every city, town and suburb. But do you really need to burn the gas to drive back and forth to a health club four days a week just to run on a tread mill?

Scroll down for some blindingly simple ideas for exercising greener.

Thanks for reading,

Your Living Green editor

* You probably know people who drive two miles to a health club and two miles back just so they can run on a tread mill for four miles. It just doesn't make sense. Try running around your neighborhood. You never know, you might even meet some neighbors.

* Does the stationary bicycle at the health club have a programmable routine that shows you exactly how many calories you are burning? Does it also show you how much money you spent in gas driving to the gym? Invest in an actual bicycle. You can even get one with a basket and bike to the grocery store, killing two birds with one stone.

* Do you want to burn some real calories? Get yourself a push lawn mower. You won't burn gas driving to the gym, you won't burn gas in a smelly, power mower, and you want to talk about a full body work out?

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RANDOM TIDBITS

For a product to be labeled "Made in the USA" the Federal Trace Commission requires that at least 70 % of the parts and labor come from the United States.

The FBI's fingerprint database is the largest in the world. It receives 34,000 new fingerprint cards a day.

On its first night of operation in 1982, the UPS Worldport facility processed 2,000 packages. It now handles that number in 30 seconds.

On June 19th, 1885, the French frigate "Isere" delivered the Statue of Liberty to the United States. For transit, it was broken down into 350 pieces and packed into 214 crates.

In the 1960 Olympic Winter Games in Squaw Valley, California, officials were unsure if a skier had missed a gate in the men's slalom. They asked a broadcaster if they could review the videotape and the "instant replay" was born.

The tuna's ultra efficient swimming ability has inspired the U.S. Navy to commission construction of a robotic tuna for surveillance missions.

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Inspiration

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaA3lishdtQ
India Arie-There's Hope

"There's Hope"

[Verse 1:]
Back when I had a little
I thought that I needed a lot
A little was over rated,
but a lot was a little too complicated
You see-Zero didn't satisfy me
A million didn't make me happy
That's when I learned a lesson
That it's all about your perception
Hey-are you a pauper or a superstar
So you act, so you feel, so you are
It ain't about the size of your car
It's about the size of the faith in your heart

[Chorus:]
There's hope
It doesn't cost a thing to smile
You don't have to pay to laugh
You better thank God for that
[repeat]

There's hope

[Verse 2:]
Off in the back country of Brazil
A met a young brother that made me feel
That I could accomplish anything.
You see just like me he wanted to sing
He had no windows and no doors
He lived a simple life and was extremely poor
On top of all of that he had no eye sight,
but that didn't keep him from seein' the light
He said, what's it like in the USA,
and all I did was complain
He said-livin' here is paradise
He taught me paradise is in your mind
You know that

[Chorus]

[Bridge:]
Every time I turn on the T.V. (There's Hope)
Somebody's acting crazy (There's Hope)
If you let it, it will drive you crazy (There's Hope)
but I'm takin' back my power today (There's Hope)
Gas prices they just keep on rising (There's Hope)
The government they keep on lying
but we gotta keep on surviving
Keep living our truth and do the best we can do

[Chorus]

Stand up for your rights [echo]
Keep shining your light [echo]
And show the world your smile [echo]

   Thanks again, Shari!