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I was almost traded in for a schnauzer ….

WHY DOGS ARE BETTER THAN KIDS
• It doesn’t take 45 minutes to get a dog ready to go outside in the winter.
• Dogs cannot lie.
• Dogs never resist nap time.
• You don’t need to get extra smartphones for a dog.
• Dogs don’t care if the peas have been touched by the mashed potatoes.
• Average cost of sending a dog to school: $75.
• Average cost of sending a kid: $150,000
• Dogs are housebroken by the time they are 12 weeks old.

Today, we are celebrating “Metric System Day”. Even though the metric system was never fully utilized in the United States, it is integrated in many facets of our daily life. For those who are not familiar with the origins of the metric system, I checked the Smithsonian and got the 411 on the subject. After the revolution of 1789, French citizens sought uniform weights and measures throughout the nation. The National Assembly and subsequent national governments commissioned the Paris Academy of Sciences and its successor, the Institute of France, to develop entirely new units to measure distance, volume, weight, angles and even time. The units were interrelated. Units of one measure, such as length, increased by powers of ten (millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters). A liter was the volume of a cube 10 centimeters on a side. A liter of water at a standard temperature weighed one kilogram. No such simple relations existed in standard units of weight and measure among units of length (inches, feet, yards, miles) or among units of length, volume and weight. In other words, the French introduced not only national standards, but a system of standards. It survives today as the metric system.

AMERICAN KIDS KNOW VERY LITTLE ABOUT HEALTHY LIVING _ A study (American Health Foundation) revealed that American children know very little about healthy living.
… Almost half the kids surveyed thought apple juice had more fat than whole milk.
… 25 percent of the kids said they hadn’t eaten vegetables the day before.
… 24 percent had eaten no fruit the day before.
… 15 percent thought cheese was a good source of fiber.

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