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THE REAL HISTORY OF MOTHER'S DAY
Romeine 14:17 Want die koninkryk van God is nie spys en drank nie, maar geregtigheid en vrede en blydskap in die Heilige Gees. PAGE 2 The Real History Mother’s Day
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PAGE 3 Alles Wat Ek Regtig Nodig Het Om Te Weet Het Ek Geleer Van Noag Se Ark. PAGE 4 Resep PAGE 6 This Is What Best-By, UseBy, and Sell-By Dates Really Mean
PAGE 11 Woman With World's Biggest Female Feet Gets Her Custom-Made Size 15 Wedding Shoes PAGE 12 DIY PAGE 18+19 Datums Om Te Onthou PAGE 20 Emergency Numbers PAGE 21 • Tide Table • Public Holiday Calendar 2019
THE REAL HISTORY OF MOTHER'S DAY The true origin dates back to the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War, when a woman named Ann Reeves Jarvis helped start “Mothers’ Day Work Clubs” in West Virginia. Their goal was to lower infant mortality rates by teaching local women how to properly care for their children, improve sanitary conditions, and fight disease. When war finally broke out in 1861, the groups began tending the wounds of soldiers from both sides. By 1868, after the Civil War was over, Jarvis transformed the organization into a peace-focused movement called “Mothers’ Friendship Day,” which involved bringing former Union and Confederate soldiers together to reconcile. Jarvis, often called “Mother Jarvis,” wrote: “Why do not the mothers of mankind interfere in these matters to prevent the waste of that human life of which they alone bear and know the cost?” Around the same time, other women around the country organized their own early Mother’s Days. Abolitionist and suffragette Julia Ward Howe wrote the “Mother’s Day Proclamation” in 1870, which called on all mothers to unite and promote world peace. She later campaigned for a holiday called “Mother’s Peace Day” to be celebrated every June 2. And Juliet Calhoun Blakely, a temperance activist from Michigan, inspired a local Mother’s Day to be celebrated there in the 1870s. But it wasn’t until the early 1900s that Mother’s Day was nationally recognized. Anna Jarvis, the daughter of Ann Reeves Jarvis, pushed for the holiday after her mother died in 1905, wanting a holiday that honors all of the sacrifices mothers make for their children. In 1908, Jarvis found financial backing to host an official Mother’s Day celebration at a church in West Virginia. At the same time, a celebration happened at a retail store in Philadelphia that belonged to Jarvis’ financial backer. It was a sensation, so Jarvis decided to make it her goal to get the holiday added to the national calendar. By 1912, Jarvis quit her job and started the Mother’s Day International Association, which formed partnerships with local businesses and ran letter-writing campaigns to government officials. It worked. Towns and churches in several states adopted Mother’s Day as an annual holiday, and by 1914, President Woodrow Wilson made it an official holiday in 1914.
Unfortunately, the holiday quickly went commercial. In fact, Jarvis grew to detest the celebration she’d spent her life championing. Any control she had over the holiday was gone, and by 1920 she did a complete 180. To Jarvis, the day was supposed to be about sentiment, not making money. She turned her back on the local businesses that helped her and began urging people not to buy flowers, cards, and other gifts for their mom. She called anyone who tried to profit off of the day “charlatans, bandits, pirates, racketeers, kidnappers and termites that would undermine with their greed one of the finest, noblest and truest movements and celebrations.” She fought against charities that used Mother’s Day for fundraising, she was arrested for disturbing the peace when she tried to stop the sale of carnations, and there are even stories of her ordering a “Mother’s Day Salad” at a restaurant, then dumping it on the floor before walking out in a huff. Eventually, Jarvis even tried to abolish Mother’s Day completely. She spent her last active years going door-to-door asking for signatures to petition and rescind Mother’s Day. She’d rather it had gone away completely then become a driving engine of corporate greed.
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Beplan vooruit. Dit het nie gereën toe Noag die ark gebou het nie. Bly fiks. Wanneer jy 600 jaar oud is, mag iemand jou dalk vrae om iets groots aan te pak. Moenie luister na die kritikusse nie, doen wat gedoen moet word. Bou op hoë grond. Vir veiligheids halwe reis in pare. Twee koppe is beter as een. Om vinnig te wees is nie altyd voordelig nie. Die jagluiperds wat op die ark maar so ook die slakke. As jy nie kan baklei of vlug nie, dryf! Versorg jou diere asof hulle die laaste diere op aarde is. Moenie vergeet ons is almal in dieselfde boot. Wanneer die bollies regtig diep raak, moenie net sit en kla nie, gryp ’n graaf en skep. Bly onder die dek tydens die storm. Onthou die ark was gebou deur amateurs en die Titanic deur professionele mense. As jy oor moet begin maak seker dat jy ’n vriend aan jou sy het. Onthou dat die houtkappers binne kan soms ’n groter gevaar inhou as die storm daar buite. Maak seker dat jy nie die boot mis nie. Maak nie saak hoe donker dit lyk nie, daar is altyd ’n reënboog aan die anderkant. 3
BESTANDDELE: • 45ml (3eetl) botter • 250ml suiker • 1 eier • 5ml koeksoda • 10ml (2eetl) appelkooskonfyt • 250ml koekmeel • 250ml melk METODE: Roer botter en suiker. Klits eier, koeksoda en konfyt by. Sif meel en roer by bottermengsel. Voeg melk geleidelik by en roer tot beslag glad is. Bak in gesmeerde oondbak of individuele bakkies wat 3/4 vol geskep word, op 180 grade C vir 45 min of tot ‘n toetspen skoon uitkom. SOUS: • 250ml room • 125g botter • 250ml suiker • 125ml water
Kook bestandele vir sous vir ±3 min. Giet oor poeding sodra dit uit die oond kom en sit warm voor met vla en of roomys 4
Emily DiNuzzo D.B. Cooper: Dan or D.B. Cooper is the alias for a hijacker who is infamous for taking over a commercial plane leaving Portland, Oregon the day before Thanksgiving in 1971. The 40-something-looking man gave the fake name Dan Cooper and, during the flight, told the flight attendant of a bomb in his briefcase. He demanded four parachutes and $200,000 in $20 bills, about $1.2 million in today’s dollars, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica. After the plane landed and let out passengers, they refuelled, and Cooper forced the pilots and flight attendant to keep the aircraft flying under 10,000 feet at slower than 200 knots. Then he parachuted out of the plane with the ransom money in hand. No one ever identified, caught, or even heard from him again. And although he used the name Dan Cooper, a reporter misheard this as D.B. Cooper thus starting his false but popular nickname. Of course, some people claim they know the real identity of Cooper but the case is still officially unsolved.
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Lisa Milbrand
Stop throwing away perfectly good food! Confused by “best by,” “sell by,” and “use by”? You’re not alone. In fact, a Harvard University study found that more than 90 percent of Americans throw away perfectly good food due to label confusion—resulting in 398,000 tons of food waste each year. Because, as it turns out, those eggs with a sell-by date don’t suddenly turn rotten at midnight. Understand what those labels really mean. “Sell by,” “use by,” and “best by” are actually all dates determined by the food manufacturers, and they’re the manufacturers’ best guess as to food quality— not food safety. Basically, they indicate how long a food producer will guarantee their product will still be at peak quality to enjoy. And there’s no governmental authority policing how those dates are used— though Congress has tried (and failed) to pass legislation in recent years to try to standardize this labelling and clear up the confusion. Depending on the product and how it’s been handled, it is likely perfectly safe to eat for days or weeks after that sell-by, use-by or best-by date has passed. Ignore the sell-by date. According to the Natural Resources Defence Council, “the sell-by date is literally just for the stores themselves,” so the manufacturer can let them know when a product may be past its prime and need to be taken off of store shelves. (Again, it may still be perfectly tasty and perfectly safe for long past that date.) Inspect your food. You can usually tell quickly when a product’s gone bad—there’s mold on the bread, or the milk smells sour. “Check the quality of the specific product by smell, taste, if it’s visually okay, if there’s no mold or discoloration,” says Stacey Antine, MS, RDN, founder of HealthBarn USA. Keep in mind that bad things can “happen even before the use-by or sell-by date,” especially if it’s a perishable food that may have spent time at an unsafe temperature. Stop the clock. Have food that you know you won’t finish before it might go bad? Just chill. “If you are getting close to the indicated date…put it in the freezer,” Antine suggests. “It sustains the product, extends its life, and reduces food waste.” 6
Brooke Nelson Sneeze: Believe it or not, sneeze was originally spelled with an F, not an S—as in fneze. Why the change? According to one explanation, people often misread the lowercase f as the old-fashioned long S character, ſ. Eventually, the spelling error simply became the norm. 7
Emily DiNuzzo You’re probably guilty of this. In your bra: Some research and case studies show that keeping your phone in your bra could be linked to breast cancer due to the radiations and vibrations from the phone. That said, there is not enough evidence to establish a definite relationship between the two. Still, keeping your phone in your bra, especially a sports bra, is a bad idea due to the skin-irritating bacteria it could harbor, Muscle & Fitness reports. 8
You measure my life in hours and I serve you by expiring. I’m quick when I’m thin and slow when I’m fat. The wind is my enemy. Hard riddles want to trip you up, and this one works by hitting you with details from every angle. The big hint comes at the end with the wind. What does wind threaten most? You have to stretch your brain to come up with a something tiny and unexpected. Answer: A candle 9
KONTAK ONS ASSEBLIEF VIR DIE NUUTSTE PRYSLYS 10
By David Stubbings
VIDEO:
https://youtu.be/QCgxrjTEaG4
Julie Felton has UK men's size 15 feet. That's size 15.5 in the USA and 49.5 in Europe. This means finding shoes for her wedding has, unsurprisingly, proved a problem. The 49-year-old from Ellesmere, Shropshire (UK), got married at Anfield, Liverpool, on Saturday 20 April, wearing a pair of shoes specially made for her extraordinary features – which are the world’s largest feet (female). Her right foot measures 32.9 cm while the left is 32.73 cm. "Trying to find shoes that fit is pretty much impossible, especially to find lady's shoes unless I want them custom made so I usually end up wearing men's. "For my wedding I was quite happy to buy a pair of trainers and jazz them up but my fiancé, Steve, said 'there's no way you're going down the aisle in a pair of pumps'." He contacted the local press, leading to a company from Devon called Rainbow Club Shoes to step forward and make Julie "the most beautiful pair of shoes I’ve ever owned". Julie, who is 6 ft 5 in, has always had feet larger than other people's. "Growing up my mum tells me my first pair of shoes were an infant size six," she recalled. "The average for your first pair is size two. "When I started secondary (high) school they were a size 11. I reached my eventual magnificent size at around 16-17 years old." Naturally, this has made shoe shopping a bit of a problem. Indeed, she rarely goes into shoe shops because there's nothing that fits (Julie and her mum once went to a trade fair and still couldn't find anything!), or at least nothing that she’d want to wear. "Occasionally we’ll ask if they stock size 15. Then you get the jaw drop, then the look up and down, and then the look down again. Occasionally they'll go into the back, bring out a dusty box with a pair of shoes I wouldn’t be seen in public in." "When going out, most girls pick the shoes to go with the outfit. For me, I have limited choice, so I pick the outfit to go with the shoes instead." But it's not just shoes which don't fit. Julie's feet are also flatter than normal and she's had orthotic insoles to increase the arch in her foot. But they've had to be made to measure as well. Sue Haskey, a local podiatrist, was asked to take the measurements and officially recorded. "I see lots of different feet, all shapes and sizes, but I have to say Julie's are the biggest I've ever seen in my career," she said. "Average foot sizes (in the UK) used to be five-six (USA seven-eight, Europe 38-39), now it's seven-eight (USA nine-10, Europe 40-41)." Julie's right foot is decorated with a tattoo comprising of a daisy (her favourite flower) and turquoise (her favourite colour). "I figured that because my feet are big, I may as well try and make them a bit prettier, give people something to look at. It's probably the most painful thing I've ever had done. "There’s no real meaning behind it. I may as well look at something I like." Now Julie holds a Guinness World Records title for the largest feet on a female, which she says has come as something of a surprise. "I’ve always wondered if there are people out there with feet bigger than mine." "I'm pleased. There are other records I'd probably rather hold so I can have nice shoes but I'm happy with it. "I hope it makes people realise 'yes, she's got big feet', but I’m quite a normal person underneath. I hope it gives other people who have unique features more confidence that it’s OK to be a bit different. Everyone is different, there’s not really a normal. "And I hope it brings attention to shoe makers that average sizes are getting bigger, so it would be really nice one day to walk into a shoe shop and just pick a pair off the shelf and try them on. I haven't been able to do since I was a child." Julie's feet are still 8 cm shorter than those of Jeison Orlando Rodriguez Hernández (Venezuela) who has the largest feet (male). When they were last measured on 3 June 2018 he was found to have a 40.55 cm right foot, and a 40.47 cm left foot.
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Meghan Jones Disney is the Happiest Place on Earth‌ Balloons and straws
This seems like the most random rule of all, but it actually makes a lot of sense. These plastic items are only forbidden from Animal Kingdom, since they could pose a hazard to the animals if eaten. So if you’re hoping to re-enact Up, keep the balloons out of Animal Kingdom.
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Byby Shower DIY
This mineral keeps your body and mind performing at their peak, but many people just don’t get enough. Extreme fatigue, a rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, and difficulty focusing sound like symptoms that would send most people running to their doctor’s office. But they can also be signs of a very common mineral deficiency—the most common nutritional disorder in the world, according to the World Health Organization. “Iron carries oxygen through our blood to our muscles and brain, making it crucial for both mental and physical health and performance,” says dietitian Brigitte Zeitlin, RD, owner of BZ Nutrition. The mineral is also essential for helping maintain a healthy immune system, regulating body temperature, and digestion and absorption of other nutrients—which explains why a lack of it, known as iron-deficiency anemia, can lead to the symptoms described above.
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