Feb 1, 2009

María Eva Duarte de Perón (7 May 1919 – 26 July 1952) was the second wife of President Juan Domingo Perón (1895–1974) and served as the First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952. She is often referred to as simply Eva Perón, or by the affectionate Spanish language diminutive Evita, which literally translates into English as "Little Eva".

Born out of wedlock in rural Argentina in 1919, at the age of 15, she made her way to the nation's capital of Buenos Aires, where she pursued a career as a stage, radio, and film actress. Eva met Colonel Juan Perón in 1944 at a charity event in San Juan, and the two were married the following year. In 1946, Juan Perón was elected President of Argentina. Over the course of the next six years, Eva Perón became powerful within the Pro-Peronist trade unions, essentially for speaking on behalf of labor rights. She also ran the Ministries of Labor and Health, founded and ran the charitable Eva Perón Foundation, championed women's suffrage in Argentina, and founded and ran the nation's first large-scale female political party, the Female Peronist Party.

In 1951, Eva Perón accepted the Peronist nomination for the office of Vice President of Argentina. In this bid, she received great support from the Peronist political base, low-income and working class Argentines who were referred to as descamisados or "shirtless ones". However, opposition from the nation's military and elite, coupled with her declining health, ultimately forced her to withdraw her candidacy. In 1952 shortly before her death from cancer at the age of 33, Eva Perón was given the official title of "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" by the Argentine Congress. [1] [2][3]

Eva Perón has become a part of international popular culture [4], most famously as the subject of the musical Evita. [5] Christina Alvarez Rodriguez claims that Eva has never left the collective conscience of Argentines. [1] Cristina Fernandez, the first female elected President of Argentina, claims that women of her generation owe a debt to Eva for "her example of passion and combativeness".
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Phil's notes
Today we traveled to a Webster Thomas High School to watch the play Evita based on the life of Evita Peron (see history above). It was very well done with a minimum staging but very distinct and colorful costuming. A local theater group consisting of both amateur adults and children staged it. The theater was just about full and appeared to consist of alot of seniors (including yours truly) The play started at end (from death of Evita Peron) and then went back to beginning. The play was done a musical and had various dance numbers which were spectacular. I felt that they must have gotten their exercises by just practicing these dance numbers
each day. The leads that played Evita and Che Gueverra were both excellent actors and singers and really added to the show. The audience also loved it and showed it by their applause after some of the numbers. The only mishap I noticed was Che lost him mike in one number but it was replaced and they went on with the show. I would give it a 9 on a 10-point scale.

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Jan 31, 2009

Montreat’s George Beverly Shea celebrates a century
by Barbara Hootman
published January 28, 2009 12:15 am

One of the most recognized men in gospel music history is turning 100 years old on February 1, and is still singing.
George Beverly Shea has sung before an estimated 220 million people during his lifetime, carrying the gospel in song to every continent in the world.
“It is joy and tenderness toward the Lord that makes my life so enjoyable,” he said.
His wife of 23 years, Karlene, describes her husband.
“He has a great sense of humor, and is just a precious spirit,” she said. “I love to hear him pray.”
Throughout his 65-year friendship with Rev. Billy Graham, he opened every crusade for 60 years with his deep baritone voice, carrying the gospel in song to every listener.
“I am a two stanza man,” he said. “I always sang two stanzas of whatever hymn I sang, bowed my head and left Billy’s pulpit. Sure, at times I was nervous, but once I reached his pulpit and felt it under my hand, it was alright.”
Shea sang “How Great Thou Art” nightly for 16 straight weeks at Madison Square Garden in 1957. It became his signature song.
He currently holds the world record for singing to more people in person than any other artist in history. Millions of people have been impacted by his music through Grammy-winning recordings, television, and radio broadcasts.
Shea started opening the Graham crusades with his easily recognized voice when he was asked by Billy Graham personally to join him in 1947.
“His will always be the most recognizable voice that you’ll ever hear,” Cliff Barrows, choir director, platform emcee, and radio-television program director for the crusades, said in an earlier interview.
Graham agreed, often calling Shea his favorite singer. “I’ve been listening to Bev. Shea for more than 50 years, and I would still rather hear him sing than anyone else I know,” he wrote in his autobiography, “Just as I Am.” “Bev was the first person I asked to join me in evangelism…It was God who brought us together. Bev will always be remembered as ‘America’s beloved gospel singer,’ whose rich baritone voice has touched the hearts of millions in our crusades, and through his 65 recordings, one of them ‘Songs of the Southland,’ was awarded a Grammy.”
Shea suffered a heart attack in 2004 and has not traveled with the crusades since then. However, he continues to sing daily, and often sings at special events at The Cove in Asheville. He will sing at his birthday celebration to be announced at a later date.
University of North Carolina Public Television will also throw a party for Shea, and film it for their viewing public some time in March.
Shea was well-established in Chicago network radio before joining the evangelistic Graham team. He started on “Club Time,” a program carried for more than eight years on ABC, the armed forces network, and many independent stations. Then 21-year-old Billy Graham asked him to join his evangelistic team, and he did, never looking back.
“I knew from the way Bill shook hands and talked that he was the kind of man I liked to be around and work with,” Shea said in an earlier interview. “God made our team tick. Also, everyone was free to be himself. There was basic integrity and each knew the other was faithful to the Lord.”
Although retired, Shea enjoys a full and rich life each day.
“Most every day there are visitors who come, a lot of mail to be answered, phone calls, and commitments to keep. I sing and play the organ most every day.”
Shea begins a lot of days with bringing his wife coffee while she is still in bed.
“Joy, and the people around me, and being with the Graham team have enabled me to live such a long, happy life,” he said. “I was blessed with my wife, Karlene, for the last 23 years, and that is blessed with a capital ‘B.’ She is so easy to live with.”
In December, Shea sang in Gatlinburg, Tenn., for 5,000 people. In 2008, he also sang for thousands of people at crusades in Birmingham, Ala., Charleston, S.C., Paducah, Ky., and The Cove in Asheville.
“Billy spoke briefly in Gatlinburg,” Shea said. “He fondly said that he knew people would come, if I sang. He said the same thing in 1947 when he asked me to join him in the crusades.”
Ruth Graham was a close friend of Shea, and helped convince him to move to Montreat permanently.
“She sat here in my home by my side at the grand piano and we sang her favorite old hymns,” Shea said. “I miss her sense of humor, her presence, and her comments.”
Shea is a humble man who is comfortable with the Lord.
“I’ve never felt like a celebrity,” he said. “I’ve simply done what I liked to do.”
His regrets are few.
“RCA asked me to repeat a concert that I had done at Carnegie Hall, and I got cold feet,” he said. “I regret that. I was asked to sing the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ for a big ball game, and I didn’t do it, and I regret that. But I did sing the ‘Star Spangled Banner’ for the Warhorses. I’ve even forgotten words to a hymn in the Cow Palace in 1958. Also, I would love to have gotten a college degree. I had to drop out of college due to lack of money.”
Shea credits his father, and Dr. Will H. Houghton, of Calvary Baptist Church in New York, with influencing his life the most.
“Dr. Houghton asked me if I had ever thought about singing for Christian radio,” Shea said. “I had never considered it, but he pointed me in the right direction, and moved me out of the secular world. After singing for a little over five years, I met Billy Graham.”
Shea’s advice to everyone is to “relish each day.”
“People love George Beverly and Karlene,” Fran Aceto, Karlene’s daughter-in-law, said. “They stay very busy with people visiting every day. There are always visitors, and lots of mail. We are truly blessed to have them in our lives.”
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Dayton Daily News jan 28, 2009
Letter to an Outgoing President
Thursday, January 22, 2009

[by Rabbi Meyer May, Executive Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and President of the Rabbinical Council of California. This letter was hand-delivered to President Bush a few days ago. The text also appears this week in Hamodia.]

Dear President Bush,
By way of introduction, I am the Executive Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center (warm regards to you from Rabbi Hier) and President of the Rabbinical Council of California. I am writing to you from the depths of my heart because how much I wanted to, I was not able to express these sentiments to you in person.
Mr. President, as an Orthodox Jew and rabbi, I am schooled in clarity of focus and a clear unequivocal moral compass which is rooted in my faith. I know someone with such clarity and with such an unequivocal moral compass when I see him. You, Mr. President, have these! Indeed, you have epitomized these qualities never wavering no matter how vicious and hurtful the political and personal attacks have been. No doubt, your faith guided you and you let it!
Your steadfast determination to rid the Iraqi people and the world of the murderous Sadam Hussein, and your recognition of Yasser Arafat for the terrorist that he was demonstrated your crystal clear view of what is just and what is not. Surely, you know what you accomplished in Iraq and history will be kind to you, I am sure, though many in our time refuse to acknowledge your difficult success there. Thank you for your clarity!
And, I am proud that my President showed an infinite compassion for the AIDS victims in Africa. The scale and scope of your efforts in this humanitarian crisis, leaves me further in awe of you and your presidency. Thank you for your humanity!
Mr. President, your response in the wake of 9/11 to the threat to our freedom and every human value we hold dear will long be remembered as one of your singular successes. That our country was not attacked again during your administration is a credit to your leadership and determination to deny evil its victory. Thank you for that clarity, too!
And, Mr. President, your pure unequivocal love for the State of Israel and respect for her enormous accomplishments, despite the constant existential threats she faces, was so beautifully and movingly demonstrated by your memorable speeches I had the privilege to hear when we joined together to celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary in Jerusalem. But it was your consistent actions to support her, as late as this week that will forever endear you to me. Your impeccable sense of right and wrong and refusal to allow terrorists to claim moral equivalency with a peace loving democracy like Israel will especially be the hallmark of your tenure as President. Israel had no better friend than you. And the same can be said for the entire Jewish People. Thank you for your devotion!
In short, Mr. President, you have warmed and inspired me and I bid you farewell as my President with a sense of relief for you that you can take a well-deserved break from the helm of our planet, but a tinge of sadness, too, that we will be losing your steady hand and noble, purity of vision as the leader of the free world.
But even in this seamless transition, which is the strength of our great American democracy, you and the First Lady have shown such class– we Jews call it, "Mentchlechkeit" — as you welcomed my next President and our future First Lady with grace and kindness to their soon-to-be home in the White House. Even to the end of your term, you have leant dignity and honor to your High Office.
Mr. President, you and Mrs. Bush don’t know me, but I hope that you and your elegant First Lady will count me forever among your friends!
Thank you,
Rabbi Meyer H. May
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Good Salesman from Third Age
Posted January 24, 2009 4:22 PM

A lady went into a pet shop. "I'd like to buy two yellow canaries," she told the owner.
"We don't have any canaries, but we have these," the owner said. He showed the lady some pale green parakeets.
"That's not what I'm looking for," the lady stated. But the pet store owner refused to give up.
"Just think of them as yellow canaries that aren't quite ripe yet," he said.

Another Potential Benefit of Cutting Calories: Better Memory
By PAM BELLUCK New York Times
Published: January 26, 2009
Eating fewer calories may lead to better memory, a new study says.
caloric restriction improves memory in elderly humans (PNAS)

The study, published Monday in The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, appears to be the first to link calorie-restricted diets with improved memory in people. Studies with animals have shown memory improvement, but there is debate about the impact of calorie restriction on humans’ cognitive function.
The study was small, involving 50 men and women ages 50 to 72 who ranged from normal weight to overweight.
Members of one group ate food they normally ate but were instructed to cut their calories by 30 percent, primarily by eating smaller portions, said Dr. Agnes Flöel of the University of Münster in Germany, a neurologist and one of the researchers. Members of a second group kept their calories the same but were instructed to increase the unsaturated fat (healthy fat) they ate by 20 percent. A third group made no dietary changes.
Participants were advised by dietitians but monitored their own eating over three months, Dr. Flöel said. Then they took tests involving memorizing words. The calorie-restricted group averaged 20 percent improvement in memory performance. The other groups showed no significant change.

How to Hook up DVD Player to TV

Steps
Remove the DVD Player from its box and place it where you want.
Hook the DVD player to the TV using the cable that came with the DVD player. New HDMI DVDs will have an HDMI cable (squarish end), while other models will have either a composite cable with three connections at each end (yellow, white and red) or a audio-video cable with two connections (yellow and white).
Older TV's may only have a coaxial cable input. If this is the case you might want to consider purchasing an RF Modulator.
Plug the DVD player's power cable into an outlet.
Power on your TV.
Power on the DVD player.
Set your TV on "AUX" (or what setting the input spot is labelled). You should see your DVD welcome screen.

[edit] Tips
The DVD player will most likely come with a "Quick Start Guide", which will provide basic instructions on how to set up the DVD player and start using it.

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Wrong shaped fruit
By Bruno Waterfield in Brussels
Last Updated: 3:39PM GMT 12 Nov 2008

Carrots of any shape will be allowed as EU rules are scrapped Photo: Jonathan Buckley
Curvy cucumbers, knobbly carrots, wonky aubergines and ugly artichokes will go on sale in shops again after unpopular European Union rules dictating the size and shape of fruit and vegetables are scrapped.

But the notorious regulation which dictates that "straight" bananas must be "free from malformation or abnormal curvature" will remain in place because "no objections from banana growers, buyers, traders or consumers have been received regarding this requirement".

The rules are being dropped to cut red tape after growing protests from supermarkets, grocers, and farmers, including the Prince of Wales, who have been forced to throw away produce that does not measure up to exacting requirements drawn up by eurocrats decades ago.

An estimated 20 per cent of the British harvest is thrown away to comply with the EU regulations, rules which have been calculated to add as much as 40 per cent to the price of some vegetables, such as carrots.

"Nature does not always comply with a perfectly rounded apple and poker-straight carrot. People should be given the chance to buy odd-shaped fruit and veg as they taste just as good," said NFU Horticulture board chairman Richard Hirst.

Commission officials, long mocked in the press for rules setting the appropriate curvature of cucumbers, are also concerned that at a time of high food prices and economic recession fruit and vegetables are being wasted "just because they are the wrong shape".
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George the lobster gets new lease on life at 140
Updated Sat. Jan. 10 2009 4:37 PM ET
The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- A new lease on life -- at 140? That's what a Manhattan lobster got Friday, when the 10-kilogram crustacean named George was released from a swanky Park Avenue restaurant's tank.
City Crab and Seafood agreed to a request from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals to let the lobster return to the Atlantic Ocean.
"We applaud the folks at City Crab and Seafood for their compassionate decision to allow this noble old-timer to live out his days in freedom and peace," said PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk.
Preventing Falls
Dear Tech Support:
Last year, I upgraded from Boyfriend 5.0 to Husband 1.0 and noticed a slowdown in the performance of the flower and jewelry applications that had operated flawlessly under the Boyfriend 5.0 system.
In addition, Husband 1.0 uninstalled many other valuable programs, such as Romance 9.9, and it installed undesirable programs such as NFL 7.4.
Conversation 8.0 also no longer runs, and Housecleaning 2.6 simply crashes the system.
I've tried running Nagging 5.3 to fix these problems, but it's not working.
Advice?
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Morbid Wishes
Posted January 24, 2009 3:41 PM
Posted in death, funeral
Three friends die in a car accident and go to an orientation in heaven. They are all asked, "When you are in your casket and friends and family are mourning you, what would you like to hear them say about you?"
The first guy says, "I would like to hear them say that I was a great doctor of my time, and a great family man."

The second guy says, "I would like to hear that I was a wonderful husband and school teacher who made a huge difference for the children of tomorrow."
The last guy replies, "I would like to hear them say, 'Look, he's moving!'"
Source: YellowBrix, UselessKnowledge.com
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