Coquina Daily

Friday, August 1, 2008

Museum Corpus

Something unique has grown in the Netherlands:

A world's first: A spectacular  experience around the human body. CORPUS is a  'journey through the human body' during which the visitor can see, feel and hear how the human body works and what roles healthy food, healthy life and plenty of exercise  plays. CORPUS offers a variety of information and provides education and entertainment with this journey as well as a vast number of permanent and variable exhibitions. Located in Amsterdam, tours are conducted every seven minutes and are available in eight different languages.  link

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Tale of the Radioactive Boy Scout

FROM HARPER'S MAGAZINE BY KEN SILVERSTEIN

Golf Manor, a subdivision in Commerce Township, Mich., some 25 miles outside of Detroit, is the kind of place where nothing unusual is supposed to happen, where the only thing lurking around the corner is an ice-cream truck. But June 26, 1995, was not a typical day.

Ask Dottie Pease. Cruising down Pinto Drive, Pease saw half a dozen men crossing her neighbor's lawn. Three, in respirators and white moon suits, were dismantling her next-door neighbor's shed with electric saws, stuffing the pieces into large steel drums emblazoned with radioactive warning signs.

Huddled with a group of neighbors, Pease was nervous. "I was pretty disturbed," she recalls. Publicly, the employees of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that day said there was nothing to fear. The truth is far more bizarre: the shed was dangerously irradiated and, according to the EPA, up to 40,000 residents of the area could be at risk.

The cleanup was provoked by the boy next door, David Hahn. He had attempted to build a nuclear reactor in his mother's shed following a Boy Scout merit-badge project.

Read the rest of the story here.

My suspicions were raised while reading this, but it is apparently well documented and a book is available in bookstores.

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Magician Nathan Burton

Born in Oakland, California, comedy magician Nathan Burton was bitten by the magic-bug at the age of four when he performed his first trick in front of his kindergarten class in the family’s hometown of Palm Desert, CA.  Although nothing turned out as it should have – he was hooked – and decided then and there that magic was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. These videos are of his performances on America's Got Talent.  link

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Coquina Crossing Garage Sale

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New dollar bill design

submitted by Michael

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Today's Activities Schedule

7:45 & 8:45 Aqua Aerobics
10:00 Cribbage
1:00 Hand & Foot
3:00 Investment Group
4:00 Pickle Ball
7:00 Men's & Ladies' Poker
7:00 Mah-jongg

Tomorrow's Activities Schedule

7:45 & 8:45 Aqua Aerobics
9:00 Tennis

See the complete calendar

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Click once a day to help feed rescue animals.

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Coquina Daily Cat

Tommy Tucker by Purrs & Paws of A.R.A.S. - link

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Coquina Daily Dog

 by Ethnocentrics - link

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Sunset

tree at sunset by jkairvar - link