“If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” – Steve Jobs

I was not going to post an obit on Apple founder Steve Jobs (since every major web and blog has one)… but then I read this inspirational quote:
“When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.”

1839, only survivor of a slang fad in Boston and New York c.1838-9 for abbreviations of common phrases with deliberate, jocular misspellings (cf. K.G. for “no go,” as if spelled “know go”); in this case, “oll korrect.” Further popularized by use as an election slogan by the O.K. Club, New York boosters of Democratic president Martin Van Buren’s 1840 re-election bid, in allusion to his nickname Old Kinderhook, from his birth in the N.Y. village of Kinderhook. Van Buren lost, the word stuck, in part because it filled a need for a quick way to write an approval on a document, bill, etc. The noun is first attested 1841; the verb 1888. Spelled out as okeh, 1919, by Woodrow Wilson, on assumption that it represented Choctaw okeh “it is so” (a theory which lacks historical documentation); this was ousted quickly by okay after the appearance of that form in 1929. Okey-doke is student slang first attested 1932. Greek immigrants to America who returned home early 20c. having picked up U.S. speech mannerisms were known in Greece as okay-boys, among other things.

“Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” is a famous quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from a speech made to the Virginia Convention. It was given March 23, 1775, at St. John’s Church in Richmond, Virginia, and is credited with having swung the balance in convincing the Virginia House of Burgesses to pass a resolution delivering the Virginia troops to the Revolutionary War. Supposedly in attendance were Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Reportedly, the crowd, upon hearing the speech, shouted, “To arms! To arms!”

The true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching. John Wooden said that; being noble and upstanding is easy enough when you’ve got people watching, but when you’re alone with yourself, when you could do the wrong thing (or avoid the right thing) and get away with it, well — that’s when you find out what kind of person you are.

Andalusian culture was deeply influenced by over 700 years of Muslim rule during the Middle Ages. Córdoba became the largest and richest city in Western Europe and one of the largest in the world. The Arabs established universities in Andalusia (Spain), and cultivated scholarship, bringing together the greatest achievements of all of the civilizations they had encountered. During that period Arab scholars played a major part in reviving and contributing to Western astronomy, medicine, philosophy, and mathematics. Columbus’ sail to the “New World” in 1492 opened the Caribbean and South America to Spain and introduced new forms of sic and dance to Spain. In Puerto Rico one of the islands colonized by the Spaniards, Jibaro music represents the mix of the musical traditions of Spain with its Arabic influences, particularly in the performance of the “Seis”. Seis is a form of Jibaro music and dance that came to Puerto Rico from Spain in the 1680′s.

Hello => sha-LOM
Goodbye => sha-LOM
How are you? => ma shlom-KHA
Very well, and you? => tov ta-DA veh-ah-TA? (tov to-DA veh-AT?)
Thank you => to-DA
You are welcome => beh-va-ka-SHA
What is your name? => ma shim-KH? (ma shmeh?)
Do you speak English? => ah-TA meh-da-BER ahng-GLEET (aht meh-da-BER-et ahng-GLEET?)
Exucuse me => sli-KHA
Where is the bathroom? => ay-FO ha-SHEH-roo-tim

Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich begins her new book, “Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”, struggling to explain — understand — the appeal of an aside she made in the spring 1976 issue of an academic journal, a comment that has become a popular slogan printed on T-shirts and coffee mugs and bumper stickers, usually without her permission and often without attribution.

It was in an article for “American Quarterly”, about the pious and extremely well-behaved colonial women described by Cotton Mather as “the hidden ones,” that Ulrich made her now familiar observation . Her study of wives and mothers and daughters as they were remembered in funeral eulogies, the sole record of women who lived and labored in silent obscurity, illustrates a critical point. Much of what is characterized as female “misbehavior” is a matter of voice — of a woman insisting she be heard, paid not only attention, but also the respect due a being as fully human and necessary as a man.

The idea of putting candles on birthday cakes dates back to ancient Greece. The Greeks, who worshipped many gods and goddesses, also worshipped one called Artemis, the goddess of the moon. Artemis, being the moon goddess, logically had a birthday every month. And the Greeks faithfully turned up at her temple every month, bringing with them cakes as round as the moon. And to simulate the glow of the full moon, the ingenious lot stuck bunches of lit candles on the cakes. The Greeks and Romans typically subscribed to the idea that every person had a protective spirit or demon that attends your birth and watches over you through your life. This spirit would have a mystic relation with the god in whose month the individual was born. This notion carries forward in time, where today folks have guardian angels, fairy godmothers, or at least a patron saint. Birthday candles are symbolic of lighted tapers and sacrificial fires – the mystic symbols of honor ever since man first set up altars to his gods. In ancient times, people prayed over the flames of an open fire. They believed that the smoke carried their thoughts up to the gods. Today, if you blow out all your candles in one breath, your wish will come true. Egyptians observed birthdays, but only for their rulers. They held parades, circuses, gladiatorial contests, and sumptuous feasts! The Romans staged parades and chariot races to celebrate birthdays, some of which were created for their gods. Mere mortals were not honored or even remembered on the day of their birth. As time went by, children became included in birthday celebrations.

The first children’s birthday parties occurred in Germany and were called kinderfeste. Cakes made from sweetened bread dough and coated with sugar, were the first birthday cakes and they originated in Germany. It has been said that if the cake collapses while baking, it is a sign of bad luck in the coming year. Coins, buttons, and rings were baked into cakes. The guest who received the slice with the coin was guaranteed riches in the future, the ring signified marriage.

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References:
http://blog.seoptimise.com/category/google

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank