12-30-2008
Hope you all had a great holdiay! Back to business with things to celebrate today:
Sixth Day of Christmas - go see some geese!
Kwanzaa continues
Relaxation Day
Falling Needles Family Fest Day (is your tree drying out? Watch the needles fall today.
National Bicarbonate of Soda Day(doesn’t seem the right day..but go ahead!)
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“Treecycling” is the act of recycling your Christmas tree so that it can be turned into compost or mulch. In a national survey, 93 percent of consumers who used a real Christmas tree recycled theirs in some type of community program. Locally, Moore Tree Farm on Rt 34 recycles trees.
Why Recycle a Tree?
Chipping (chippings are used for various things from mulch to hiking trails)
Beachfront erosion prevention
Lake and river shoreline stabilization
Fish habitat
River delta sedimentation management
Today around 98 percent of real Christmas trees are grown on farms throughout all 50 states and Canada. Real trees are a renewable, recyclable resource, and real trees are planted to be harvested just as corn and/or pumpkins are cultivated for a harvest.
For each real Christmas tree harvested, up to three new seedlings are planted in its place, depending on farm size and current field rotation. Young trees in their rapid growth years have a high rate of photosynthesis and thus produce more oxygen than older trees.
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Popcrunch.com did a poll on the sexiest actors and actresses, from the male and female perspective. See the results here.
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The American Film Institute, famous for its lists of the best movies in various categories, has come up with what it calls 2008’s “Moments of Significance in Film, TV and the Web.” Per E! Online, topping the list is British director Danny Boyle’s acclaimed Hollywood-meets-Bollywood indie film Slumdog Millionaire, which AFI cited for being “a monument to the possibilities of cross-cultural storytelling.” Other moments of significance singled out by AFI include:
-Tina Fey’s double-duty as Emmy-winning writer/co-star of NBC’s 30 Rock and hilarious Sarah Palin impersonator on Saturday Night Live.
-Television coverage of the presidential race between Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain.
-NBC’s coverage of the Beijing Summer Olympics and the network’s decision to install departing Tonight Show host Jay Leno into its 10 p.m. weeknight slot.
-Fast-growing website Hulu, a joint venture between various networks and film studios offering video of many popular shows.
-Joss Whedon’s surprise online hit, Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a 43-minute musical comedy starring Neil Patrick Harris.
-The endangered nature of independent filmmaking after major studios closed down specialty divisions such as Paramount Vantage, Warner Independent and New Line Cinema.
-The dwindling influence of mainstream media film critics caused by layoffs at big-name publications like Time, Newsweek and The Village Voice.
The American Film Institute’s “Moments of Significance” was chosen by a 13-person jury comprising scholars, film artists, critics and AFI trustees. The organization will officially recognize the moments in a January 9th ceremony at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills.
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New words from this past year, and you can use them in the coming year, from Arizona Republic:
-Staycation (n.) also sta-cation - Came into wide use after gas hit $4 this summer, making family car trips an even less inviting prospect. Involves taking time off at or near home.
-401(k)o’d (adj.) - A retirement account that looks like it has gone 10 rounds with Oscar De La Hoya.
-Prehab: A program to prevent young stars from behaving inappropriately. “Looks like Miley Cyrus is the only one who’s been to prehab.”
-Ohnosecond: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you’ve just made a BIG mistake. “It took only an ohnosecond before Tim realized he’d hit ‘reply to all’ on his email trashing the boss.”
2 sites for you to find more:
Arizona Republic
Chattanooga Pulse
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