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• Sir Henry Cole owned an art shop in London. In 1843 he asked an artist to design a card that he could send to his friends and associates to wish them a good Christmas, because he was too busy to write them letters. The artist drew a three-fold card. The outside panels depicted people giving clothing to the naked and feeding the hungry. The center panel showed a family celebrating Christmas by drinking wine around a feast table. The Temperance Movement was outraged by the cards— but they were in fact the first Christmas cards. Of 1,000 that were printed, 12 still exist. • By the late 1800s the exchange of Christmas cards in the U.S. had become so widespread that the Superintendent of Mails complained about needing to hire 16 extra mailmen in Washington, D.C. He petitioned Congress to limit the mailing of cards to avoid bottlenecks in the mail system. His petition failed. Today over two billion cards are exchanged each year in the U.S. alone. (Continued next page)

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• During World War I, President Hoover was constantly urging Americans to cut down on consumption of nearly everything. In the midst of the war, a Christmas card appeared that was printed on cheap gray cardboard and tied with a piece of string that was labelled “camouflaged ribbon.” Tiny scraps of green were labelled “mistletoe” and “holly” and a scrawny creature was labelled “bluebird.” The inscription inside said, “I’ve Hooverized on pork and beans and butter, cake and bread/ I’ve cut out auto riding and now I walk instead / I’ve Hooverized on sugar, on coal and light and lard, / And here’s my Christmas greeting on a Hoover Christmas Card.” • Roy Baker of Guthrie, Oklahoma received a Christmas card in the spring of 1974 that had been mailed over two years earlier. The card carried a two-cent postage due notice because postage rates had gone up between the time the card was mailed and the time it arrived. • Werner Erhard, founder of ‘est’ meditation, set a world record for number of Christmas cards sent in a single year: 62,824 mailed in 1975.

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• Dr. Clement Moore in 1822 composed a little ditty for his nine children for Christmas. A friend who saw the poem sent it to a newspaper, and from there it was picked up by other papers and many magazines. Dr. Moore was a scholar and worried that being known as the author of such a simple Christmas poem would ruin his reputation. Therefore, he didn’t confess his authorship until some 15 years had passed, and he never received a penny for his poem. By then, nearly everyone knew the poem by heart: “‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” Today, the poem is recited over his grave each Christmas Eve. (Continued next page) Teacher: "If I have 20 cents and ask Ebenezer Scrooge for another 30 cents, how much will I have?" Student: "20 cents, teacher!" Teacher: "You don't know your arithmetic." Student: "Please, Miss Brown, you don't know Scrooge!"

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• Irving Berlin needed to write a song for each of the major holidays for the movie “Holiday Inn” starring Bing Crosby. Berlin didn’t have much trouble with most of the holidays, but when it came to Christmas, he was stuck. • Inspiration struck as he sat by a swimming pool in Arizona. He declared, “I just wrote the best song I’ve ever written – hell! I just wrote the best song that anybody’s ever written!” • Crosby performed the song in the movie, and recorded it for Decca Records in a single 18-minute session. It didn’t do well on the charts at first, until Christmas came and the Armed Forces Network was flooded with requests for it by homesick soldiers. The song spent 11 weeks at the top, only to return to the top position again during the holiday seasons in 1945 and 1947, becoming the only single in history with three separate runs at the top. • It sold more than 50 million copies. It’s now been recorded by more artists than any other song in the history of the recording industry, and the Guinness Book of World Records lists it as the topselling song of all time, with over 100 million copies sold, including over 500 different versions. What’s the name of the song? Answer: “White Christmas.”

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The greatest gift we can give does not come in a box. It comes from our heart. “Love is slow to suspect but quick to trust; slow to condemn but quick to justify; slow to offend but quick to defend; slow to expose but quick to shield; slow to reprimand but quick to empathize; slow to belittle but quick to appreciate; slow to demand but quick to give; slow to provoke but quick to help; slow to resent but quick to forgive.” (TWFYT) The scriptures give great guidelines on how to turn a holiday season into a lifestyle of learning to love. ♥ Love believes all things - love teaches me to look beyond the hurt that I am in with someone I care about ♥ Love brings hope - love teaches me to see the potential in people and not the mud they are stuck in ♥ Love endures – love teaches me to throw an anchor into stormy waters so I don’t get carried off by rip tides and waves.

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--The National Institutes of Health is about to spend $2.2 million to develop robots that will improve our quality of life. There will be three versions: one as a social companion for children to promote curiosity, one for the visually impaired to help with identifying and grasping objects, and one for us seniors. Our version will be a dual-mode robotic Smart Walker to help keep us moving without the assistance of others and without the need for home remodeling or installing ramps for wheelchairs. It will have two abilities: a powerassisted Smart Walker, and a Smart Mule that will walk alongside. Go online to www.nibib.nih.gov, click News & Events and scroll to “NIH funds development of robots to improve health, quality of life” to see the prototype. The user would actually stand in the robot, with four sturdy legs on all sides keeping balance, and choose the level of assistance. This mode uses a computer camera to scan the environment and navigate obstacles while sensing the user’s motions. The walk-along mule would be good for keeping balance while also letting the robot carry a load, perhaps a basket of laundry. The purpose of the smart robots, according to the news release from NIH, is to keep us physically active. Which is a great idea. I, however, have questions. How much will this gadget weigh? Will it fold up and fit in the car? How easily will it assemble? Will it go over curbs? Keep these in mind down the road when the robot is ready for trials. And, if you live anywhere near the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, chances are that they’ll need study participants at some point to test the robots.

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