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• The sun is a huge star that is the center of our so-lar system. Earth is tiny compared to the sun. Our entire planet could fit inside the sun 109 times if it was a hollow ball! Of course, it’s not hollow; it is filled with hot gasses. How hot? The surface of the sun is about 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5,500 degrees Celsius). The core, or center of the sun, is estimated to be more than 28 million degrees Fahrenheit (15.5 million C).

• The sun is 864,000 miles (1.4 million km) in di-ameter, almost 35 times larger than the diameter of the earth and is about 330,000 times the mass of earth.

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• On a mountain summit on a hot summer day, it appears that the sun is really close to earth. How-ever, it is nearly 93 million miles (150 million km) away. It takes sunlight about eight minutes to reach us. Even with that distance, the light and heat keep our planet warm, allowing plants to grow and even giving us a sunburn if we are not careful. Without the sun, earth would be frozen and dark all the time and could not support life as we know it.

• The closer you get to the earth’s poles, the more extreme the days are with and without sunshine. The North Pole does not have sunshine for 186 days a year.

• Barrow, Alaska, doesn’t have any sunshine in December and January, but when summer rolls around, June through August, they are blessed with continual sunshine 24 hours a day.

• Today, much attention is focused on our need for vitamin D, known as the sunshine vitamin. Being in the sun is the best way to satisfy your body’s need for vitamin D; it is produced in your skin when your skin is exposed to sunlight.

• A lack of vitamin D can put you at increased risk for the bone disease osteoporosis. Low vitamin D can also cause poor metabolism, a weakened heart and cause your body to heal slowly from broken bones and cuts.

• Even though Florida is nicknamed the “Sunshine State,” there are five other states that actually have more sunshine. According to the National Weather Service, Arizona, California, Texas, Ne-vada and New Mexico catch more rays.

• The sunniest place in the United States where you can absorb some natural vitamin D is Yuma, Arizona. The next four places are: Redding, Cali-fornia; Flagstaff and Phoenix, Arizona; and Las Vegas, Nevada.

• Juneau, Alaska, is the cloudiest city in the United States with only 30 percent of the annual possible sunshine. Other areas that lack sunshine, where vitamin D supplements may be needed, are Quil-layute, Washington; Elkins, West Virginia; Hilo, Hawaii; and Anchorage, Alaska.

• If you search the internet for businesses, towns, clubs and other organizations that use the word sunshine in their name, you will probably be

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amazed. It seems that everyone loves sunshine! The word seems to imply hap-piness. However, there are a few places borrowing the name that haven’t turned out so sunny. How about ghost towns?

• Sunshine, Tennessee, is also known as Kinsel Springs, after S.J. Kinsel who es-tablished the town in the early 1900s. Located in what is now the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, at one time it had a large resort hotel, and people rode the train from Knoxville to enjoy swimming in the Little River and walking across the swinging bridge. After the hotel burned in the 1950s, and the rail-road’s demand for the local lumber dried up, the company was discontinued and the town died. The swinging bridge has been renovated, but not much else is there today.

• Mr. Kinsel, known for his wealth, was also known for his generosity. He do-nated a large sum of money to the International Sunshine Society. The society was started in the early 1900s to help infants and children who were blind, to bring “sunshine” to their sweet lives.

• Two mines named “Sunshine” were located in Utah and Idaho, for gold and silver respectively.

• Sunshine Mine in Utah was expected to be a great gold find but proved to be disappointing and was abandoned after 15 years of work. Only about $400,000 in gold was extracted. Sunshine Canyon, where the mine was located, has been deserted since 1910.

• Sunshine Mine in Idaho, located between the towns of Kellogg and Wallace in the Idaho panhandle, was a silver mine that produced almost 365 million ounces of silver from 1904 through 2001. Unfortunately, the Sunshine Mine has the distinction of being the spot of the worst disaster in Idaho history. A fire in the mine in 1972 killed 91 workers. A monument to the lost miners was erected near the mine and can be viewed there today.

• Sunshine Hill, Texas, near Wichita Falls, got its name from the fact that at 1,208 feet (368 m) above sea level, it was the highest hill in the area. The school that was established there in 1889 was the only structure left in the town in recent years. Unfortunately, the school burned to the ground in March 2011.

• North of the border in Alberta, Canada, is Sunshine Village Ski Resort, one of three ski resorts within Banff National Park. It claims to have up to 30 feet (9 m) of snow in the winter!

• Be thankful for the sun coming up every morning and going down every night. There have been numerous religions that have the sun as their centerpiece. The Egyptians, Aztecs, Greeks and Japanese all had major tenets of their beliefs based on the sun. The Aztecs actually thought the sun died every night and had to be resurrected each day.

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• Banff started as a small hot springs reserve. When the Great Canadian Railway reached the Banff area in 1883, two railway workers discovered hot springs near an area referred to as siding 29. The hot springs quickly became an attraction for visi-tors, and the government established the Banff National Reserve in 1885. At that time, it was 10 square miles (26 sq km).

• When the Canadian government changed the designation of the area to Rocky Mountain Na-tional Park in 1887, it included the town of Banff and the hot springs. The size at that time was 260 square miles (673 sq km). The main transporta-tion to the park was the Canadian Pacific Rail-way, which is still around today, more commonly known as CP Rail.

• Today, Banff National Park consists of 2,564 square miles (6,641 km2) of spectacular moun-tain scenery nestled in the heart of the Canadian

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Someone once said, “The key to happiness is lowexpectations.” I guess it goes like this: When you don’t expect to accomplish anything, and you don’t, you aren’t disappointed; if you’re not disap-pointed then you’re happy. It sounds to me like convoluted logic used to justify some serious lazi-ness. I can’t imagine going through life not expect-ing some really neat things to happen. I wake up every day ex-pecting something good to happen. If I didn’t, I don’t think I would get out of bed…and it works! Last week I went to a meeting at 7:00 am and met a guy who, after the meeting wasover, showed me how to save $125 per month and all I had to do was fillout a certain form. Wow! That was worth the ef-fort, wouldn’t you say?A few hours later I made a cold call on a rather large business that has a variety of gatekeepers whose job it is to keep sales people away from decision makers. But when I walked in, the person I needed to talk to was sitting at the desk right in front of me. And best of all, he wanted to talk to me. He had heard of me, he was familiar with what I was selling, and he was ready to buy. I’ll meet with him next week to go over the details and pick up a check.“How did that happen?” you ask? “I thought busi-ness was tough, clients were hard to find, and thatmoney was in short supply.”Perhaps it is, but that’s not what I expect to findwhen I head to my office every day. I expect peo-ple to like me. I expect to make sales. I expect my business to prosper. And if it doesn’t, I expect to find ways to take advantage of whatever situationI am in.My “expecter” is always awake. But it’s more than just awake; it is always expanding. I’m always ex-pecting something good to happen to me!Too many people go around all day thinking, “Oh dear, the markets took another nosedive, one more big retail chain announced it is closing, the weatherman said it would be overcast and drizzly, and to top it all off, the cat puked on the carpet. Iexpect it will be another bad day for business.”There’s a better way. When you get up in themorning, expand your expectations. Expect the sun to shine on you even though it is overcast. Expect people to like you even though they are angry toward others. Expect people to buy from you even though they are canceling orders from others. Norman Vincent Peal said, “If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”He’s right. You get in life pretty much what you expect so you might as well expect that something good is going to happen to you today!


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• It’s still not known who made this sage observa-tion: “Wisdom is divided into two parts: a) hav-ing a great deal to say, and b) not saying it.”

• In 1931, the Newspaper Enterprise Association predicted that crime would be nearly gone in 20 years.

• Do you subscribe to the adage “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”? Consider this: Would that teen heartthrob of an earlier day, Bobby Darin, have become so popular if he had been known by his given name, Walden Cassotto?

• At one time, Canada’s CBC network banned the children’s cartoon “Rocky and Bullwinkle” because of its sometimes unflattering portrayalof the Mounties.

• The Goodrich company, known primarily for itstires, also invented the first modern golf ball.

• Sometimes scientists get to express their crea-tivity when they have the opportunity to name things. Take deep-sea sites, for example: in the North Atlantic is the Porcupine Abysmal Plain, Clam Acres is off the west coast of Mexico, andthere’s a site near the Galapagos Islands called Hole-to-Hell.

• Those who study such things have found thata sneeze leaves your mouth at more than 100 m.p.h.

• Donald Duck’s middle name is “Fauntleroy.”• The game of chess originated in India in about

2,000 B.C. -- it was called “chaturanga.” And it didn’t look quite like the modern version that is played all over the world today. Chaturanga had only four kinds of pieces: elephants, chariots, horses and foot soldiers.

• A Rochester, Mich., law states that anyone who is bathing in public must be wearing a bathing suit that has been inspected by a police officer.

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Rocky Mountains. The western border of the parkruns for 149 miles (240 km) along the Continen-tal Divide.

• The most famous landmark in the park and in theentire Canadian Rockies is Lake Louise, a beauti-ful glacial lake 35 miles (57 km) west of the town of Banff. Natives of the area were familiar with thelake when Edwin Hunter led Tom Wilson to his “discovery” of Lake Louise in 1882. Wilson gazed at the site and said, “As God is my judge, I never in all my explorations saw such a matchless scene.”

• Lake Louise is referred to as the Hiking Capi-tal of Canada, the Skiing Capital of Canada, the Romance Capital of Canada (tied with Niagara Falls), the Jewel in the Heart of the Canadian Rockies and the Diamond in the Wilderness. All of the names are deserved! It is also the Highest Community in Canada at 5,020 feet (1,530 m).

• Just as railroads helped build and increase traf-fic to national parks in the United States, CP Railhelped with the popularity and growth of Cana-da’s first national park. In 1888, CP Rail built theBanff Springs Hotel. (At the time, the wealthywere the only ones who could afford travel.) Thehistoric hotel remains a great attraction of the park for visitors from all over the world.

• A modest hotel geared toward adventurers was built at Lake Louise in 1890. With the lake in front and a mountain glacier behind, the hotel became a popular tourist spot. It was renamed Chateau Lake Louise in 1913 and after a fire, was rebuiltmuch larger. The area then went on to become amajor tourist stop.

• Originally opened as summer-only resorts, Cha-teau Lake Louise and Banff Springs Hotel beganopening for skiers during the winter holiday sea-sons in the 1970s. In 1988, when Calgary hosted the Winter Olympics, Banff National Park wasshowcased to the world.

• Banff along with Jasper, Kootenay and Yoho Na-tional Parks and the provincial parks of Mount Robson, Mount Assiniboine and Hamber are des-ignated a UNESCO World Heritage Site, one of the largest protected areas in the world.

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Fog or Smog?Both fog and smog reduce visibility in areas where

they are present and in extreme cases, can result in snarled air and ground traffic. In addition tocausing visual impairment, smog can be danger-ous to your health.

• Fog is defined as “a large mass of water vapor con-densed to fine particles, at or just above the earth’ssurface; thick, obscuring mist.” Smog is “fog that has become mixed and polluted with smoke.” Theword smog is a portmanteau, which is a blend of two or more words into a new word.

• Fog can be dangerous to your health if it im-pedes visibility and causes automobile or air-plane crashes, but otherwise, just breathing it in is not harmful. Smog, on the other hand, can be extremely bad, especially to people with allergies and/or asthma.

• Since the word “smog” was first used, scientistshave worked on minimizing it and its conse-quences. Dr. H.A. des Voeux is given credit for the first recorded use of the word in a paper hepresented to the Public Health Congress in Lon-don in 1905. He was quoted in a Daily Graphic newspaper article saying, “It required no science to see that there was something produced in great cities which was not found in the country, and that was smoky fog, or what was known as ‘smog.’” The next day, the Globe wrote that, “Dr.des Voeux did a public service in coining a new word for the London fog.”

• London is indeed known for its fog, as is San Francisco, but Grand Banks, off the island ofNewfoundland, Canada, is known as the foggi-est place in the world. The cold Labrador Currentfrom the north and the warm Gulf Stream from the south meet at Grand Banks and cause the al-most ever-present fog.

“Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.” - George Washington

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