Facts of the Week 10-18-11
Facts about tea: ~ Multiply your weight by 0.6. That is how much water there is in your body. ~ To thoroughly mix a 52-card deck, it takes seven standard…
Poem Of The Week 10-18-11
Bound for your distant home By Alexander Pushkin Bound for your distant home you were leaving alien lands. In an hour as sad as I’ve known I wept over your…
Facts of the Week 10-10-11
Facts about tea: ~ Tea contains half the amount of caffeine found in coffee. ~ The first book about tea was written by Lu Yu in 800 A.D ~ Apart…
Facts of the Week 10-3-11
~ The potato can be traced back 4,000 years to the Peruvians in South America. ~ The potato was the first food ever to be grown in outer space. ~…
Abode Communities Kick Starts Green Living Youth Program
Van Nuys , CA — Abode Communities, one of the nation’s leading fullservice affordable housing developers, has received a $25,000 resident engagement grant from Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., funded by…
Quotes Of The Week 9-26-11
Yogi Berra quotations: ~ “Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical. ~ “In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.” ~…
Facts of the Week 9-26-11
~ Donald Duck’s middle name is Fauntleroy. ~ Emus and kangaroos cannot walk backwards, and are on the Australian coat of arms for that reason. ~ Cats have over one…
Metro Announces Free Fares for Girl Scouts
LOS ANGELES, CA — The Metro Board last week authorized free fares for all Girl Scouts in uniform on Oct. 29, 2011 in honor of their 100th anniversary celebration, “Girltopia,”…
Illegal Tobacco Sales to Minors Reach New Low
SACRAMENTO – Illegal tobacco sales to minors have fallen to their lowest level on record in California, Dr. Ron Chapman, director of the California Department of Public Health, announced today.…