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Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Smokin' Herbs
@davidwma Reply to @user5710632601 Today’s FilmTok lesson: Prop Cigarettes #filmtok #behindthescenes #learnontiktok #movieprops #film ♬ Sunny Day - Ted Fresco
Cavities Could Be Passe`
An excerpt from The Cool Down -
Scientists make game-changing discovery that could make cavities a thing of past: 'Could be added to toothpastes and mouthwashes'
Cavities are still one of the most common health problems on the planet.
by Nicole Westhoff
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| Photo Credit: iStock |
What if tooth cavities could become a thing of the past? Scientists may have found a way to make this happen.
According to SciTechDaily, researchers in Israel have discovered a natural compound that can reduce Streptococcus mutans biofilm, a key cause of tooth decay, by approximately 90%.
In simple terms, it targets the stubborn layer of bacteria that brushing and flossing may not always remove.
The compound, known as 3,3'-diindolylmethane (DIM), is found in everyday vegetables such as broccoli and cauliflower. Even better, it's considered low in toxicity.
"The molecule, which was found to have low toxicity, could be added to toothpastes and mouthwashes," explained lead author Professor Ariel Kushmaro of the Avram and Stella Goldstein-Goren Department of Biotechnology and Engineering.
That's exciting news, especially since cavities are still one of the most common health problems on the planet. Nearly 2.5 billion people deal with them, according to the World Health Organization.
https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/cavities-tooth-decay-dim-vegetables/
STOP Struggling To Plug Outlets Behind Your Couch, Bed And Furniture!
Fast forward to get to the solution. It takes him a while to get there but the solution is pretty cool.
"Lead Me To The Rock" I Rev. Dr. Howard-John Wesley I September 14, 2025...
Please watch from the starting point of 15:40 to 21:05 for a powerful message.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Halftime: A Gospel Celebration! 8/30/25 vs. Texas
I was surprised to see Ohio State honoring gospel music and not one of our HBCUs. It's not often that we can take a page out of their playbook, but they did a great job. Gotta give kudos where they are due.
Leave Wallet On Car In Detroit Vs Dubai
Side note - I can attest to the Dubai segment being absolutely true. My five years in the country were the safest place I've ever lived. It might be because the punishment for breaking the laws there are swift and harsh. - Faye
Sunday, August 24, 2025
No-Nonsense Priest Cancels Wedding Mid-Ceremony
An excerpt from Your Tango -
Priest Cancels Wedding Mid-Ceremony After Seeing A Joke Written On The Groom's Shoe During The Blessing
It was a hacky, sexist joke and the priest definitely wasn't laughing.
By John Sundholm
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| Douglas Mendes | Pexels |
It used to be standard procedure for men to constantly tell jokes that were essentially, at their core, about how much they hate their wives. "The ol' ball and chain," "Take my wife ... Please," and all the other dumb, hacky variations on the theme all hinge on the same basic theme cleverly reworded: I dislike the woman I'm married to.
Wedding traditions like smashing cake in your wife's face fall into this category, too. Sometimes it's cute and playful, but we've all seen the videos of grooms crossing the line in an awkward way that makes it clear they took the cake moment as an opportunity to vent a bit of the vitriol clearly simmering under the surface. A lot of this has fallen out of favor in recent years, or is at least frowned upon by many. Count Brazilian priest Father Fábio Marinho among them, who recently called off a wedding over this type of joke.
A priest canceled a wedding over a joke written on the groom's shoe.
Father Fábio Marinho, a Catholic priest in the Uberlândia region of Brazil, was recently conducting a wedding as usual, when he noticed a strange commotion going on during the ceremony, and during one of its most sacred parts no less.
Marinho told the "LendaCast" podcast he was giving the blessing to the marriage, and as the bride and groom knelt before him, he heard laughter coming from the assembled congregation.
The groom had pasted 'help me' to the bottom of his shoe, and the priest was not amused.
"They knelt for me to give the blessing, and the church started laughing," Marinho said. "I thought: something's happened."
After surveying the scene, the priest realized the groom had played a "hilarious" little prank for the wedding. On the bottom of his shoe, he'd pasted a message reading "Help me; get me out of here," so that when they knelt to pray, the congregation would see it.
A relatively harmless prank, of course, but the punchline of it all is hacky, dumb, sexist rhetoric from 50 years ago. "Oh no, don't make me marry this woman" is basically the punchline, which is weird. Nobody's forcing you to be there, my guy! "When I saw what was in the groom's shoe, I took it off and got it," Marinho said. And to say Marinho was not amused is an understatement.
The priest invalidated the marriage on the spot because the groom wasn't taking it seriously.
https://www.yourtango.com/self/priest-cancels-wedding-mid-ceremony-over-grooms-joke
Good Dog!
@elliegoldenlife We had to ban this song 😂 #goldenretrieverlife #dog #smile #bffs ♬ original sound - Golden Retriever Life
Leading Lady: Raye Montague
An excerpt from Shine My Crown -
Raye Montague: The Black Woman From Little Rock Who Revolutionized U.S. Navy Ship Design
by Gee NY
Though rarely mentioned in history books, Raye Montague, a naval engineer from Little Rock, Arkansas, transformed the future of shipbuilding in the United States Navy.
With that feat, she shattered barriers of race, gender, and technology in the process.
Born in 1935 in segregated Little Rock, Montague grew up at a time when Black children were denied equal access to education, and women were rarely encouraged to pursue careers in science or engineering. But that didn’t stop her.
Her interest in engineering began at the age of seven, when her grandfather took her to see a captured German submarine during a World War II exhibition tour. She was captivated.
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Montague moved to Washington, D.C., and began working for the U.S. Navy in 1956 as a clerk typist. However, her position put her close to the engineers and computers she’d long dreamed of working with. Through keen observation and determination, she taught herself how to program the UNIVAC I computer system—one of the earliest commercial computers in use at the time.
Her tenacity paid off. Over the next decade, Montague worked her way up through the Naval Sea Systems Command, eventually becoming a computer systems analyst and then an engineer. But it was in 1971 that she truly made history.
At the time, ship design was an excruciatingly long process. Engineers typically took two years to design a draft of a naval ship using manual calculations and physical drafting tools.
But after being assigned to streamline the process for a new class of frigates—and facing immense pressure to deliver—Montague did what no one else had done: she used computer programming to automate the design process.
In just 18 hours and 26 minutes, Montague produced the first-ever computer-generated draft of a naval ship—the Oliver Hazard Perry-class frigate. It was a feat that stunned her superiors and sent shockwaves through the defense engineering world.
The History of Family Reunions
An excerpt from The Guardian -
‘A radical act’: the rich history behind the centuries-long tradition of Black family reunions
Festivities usually take place in the summer and often include traditional foods, matching T-shirts and the chance to learn about family ancestry
By Adria R Walker
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| The Harper family gathered around a picnic table at a family reunion in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1971. Photograph: Charles "Teenie" Harris/Getty Images |
Following emancipation, Jack Johnson had one major goal: to reunite his family. Johnson had been enslaved in North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi, and had 10 children with JoAnna, his first wife, and another 10 with Hettie Brown, his second wife after enslavement.
Though Johnson managed to find nine of the 10 children he had with JoAnna, the family fruitlessly tried to locate the last child, Rufus. Johnson eventually learned that Rufus had been sold with two other enslaved people to a plantation in Texas. But to this day, Johnson’s descendants continue to search for Rufus’s living relatives.
From emancipation to reconstruction, Black families attempted to reconnect after the destruction wrought by slavery. Formerly enslaved people constantly looked for family members who, like Rufus, had been sold away. The tradition of Black family reunions was born out of this search, and continues throughout the US today with hundreds of thousands of families connecting, reconnecting and celebrating together annually, usually throughout the summer.
The tradition of Black family reunions was born out of this search, and continues throughout the US today with hundreds of thousands of families connecting, reconnecting and celebrating together annually, usually throughout the summer.
The festivities are a time where family members can meet for the first time, catch up over the time passed since they last saw each other and remember relatives who have passed away. They often include teaching and learning family ancestry and history, and cooking and sharing meals with traditional foods.
Nearly two centuries after Johnson began gathering his family, his descendants met in New Orleans, Louisiana, for a family reunion. Continuing Johnson’s legacy is central to the reunion’s theme. The family has a website, started by Elaine Perryman, dedicated to consolidating and spreading family history.
Ashanté Reese, an associate professor of African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin, has been researching Black gatherings for the last two and a half years, attending multiple family reunions across the country.
“This is a thing that makes reunion so special, the tradition that it comes from,” said Reese. “Reading those advertisements, seeing that hope on paper, just made me even more committed to this tradition. These are people who were using the last little bit of money or the last bit of social capital they have. We have all this stuff at our fingertips to be able to stay connected. It feels important to me to honor the longing of people who were recently emancipated by being invested in this tradition.”
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