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Page 4 September Horoscopes and Celebrity Birthdays . In astrology, those born between tactful and polite at soothing those embroiled Lee Senior Center the 1st and 22nd of September are in argument. Celebrities born in September September 2015 Virginal Virgos. Virgos are industrious, include the following: efficient, and pay close attention to details, which is why they tend to Lily Tomlin (comedian) – Sept. 1, 1939 5722 Lee Highway, Arlington, Va. 22207 get the job done right on the first try. Bob Newhart (comedian) – Sept. 5, 1929 Hours of Operation, M thru F, 10-3 Grandma Moses (artist) – Sept. 7, 1860 Tel (703-228-0555) Those born between September Otis Redding (singer) – Sept. 9, 1941 Office of Senior Adult Program/Department 23rd and 30th balance the scales of Agatha Christie (author) – Sept. 15, 1890 Of Parks and Recreation Libra. Libras seek harmony and Frankie Avalon (singer) – Sept. 18, 1940 value fairness and justice. Although Jim Henson (puppeteer) – Sept. 24,1936 they’d rather avoid conflict, they are T.S. Eliot (poet) – Sept. 26, 1888 Celebrating Music to the Ears, Minds, and Bodies excellent team players who are Gene Autry (singer) – Sept. 29, 1907 September Notable September is Classical Music Month, immunoglobulin A, which helps the . Quote continued from pg. 1 Piano Month, and Southern Gospel immune system identify and fight off Music to Our Ears Intergeneration Music Month. As if this isn’t enough harmful germs and bacteria. Research Research also shows that when synchronized social dances, such “Painting’s not Month music to our ears, September’s also now links classical music to we listen to music, several areas as square dancing, line dancing, a time to get up and dance. This immediate improvements in epilepsy important. The of our brains—those governing hula, step dancing, and waltzing. Coupon Month month marks Square Dancing Month and autism symptoms and some important thing is movement, attention, planning, and the celebration of Line Dancing spatial reasoning tests (dubbed the keeping busy.” and memory—are simultaneously Is there no end to music’s World Week from September 14–19. “Mozart Effect”). And classical dance activated. In this way, people who benefits? Lowered stress, is being used as therapy for those ~ Grandma Moses listen to music together are actually boosted immune systems, Alzheimer’s Music is not just an enjoyable with dementia and Parkinson’s. (born Sept. 7, 1860) sharing a common experience; all workouts for both brain and Month distraction. Research shows that Participants showed improvements in their brains begin working on the body... The next thing we’ll learn music has the ability to alter the motor and cognitive functions, and same wavelength. Doctors speculate is that music helps the listener Day of chemical processes of the brain in other mental symptoms. that this is why music is such eat more when needed. Wait, Charity healthy ways. It may come as no continued on pg. 4 a unifying force. Perhaps, too, this there’s research to suggest soft Sept. 5 surprise that music reduces amounts is why there are so many carefully music offers that benefit, too. of the stress hormone cortisol. But did you know that listening to Labor Day pleasurable music actually strengthens Unwelcome to the Emerald City Sept. 7 our immune systems? Music is associated with the antibody Most cities love an influx of wonderful that its residents want to Balance tourists. Tourists, after all, bring keep it all for themselves? It is Awareness dollars. The more popular a city world-renowned for its coffee Avast Ye Misnomers This September 19 is, the more those dollars add up. (thank you, Starbucks), doughnuts Week So it is very strange indeed that (thank you, Top Pot), and salmon Sept. 14–20 September 19 means it’s once again Most pirate myths—from speech September 16 is Stay Away from (thank you, Mother Nature). Then Talk Like a Pirate Day. Does this patterns to parrots, eye patches, and Seattle Day, a day when there’s the unparalleled natural Respect Day mean we should go around spouting peg legs—come from the book Seattleites request for everyone beauty, great music scene, a Sept. 18 “Arrgh” and “Ahoy, matey”? Treasure Island by Robert Louis to please refrain from visiting cutting-edge tech industry, and Researchers chalk up this type of Stevenson. When Disney turned the their wet Pacific Northwest city. hey, we even hear the whole rain Centenarian’s pirate speech as nothing but book into a movie in the 1950s, actor Hollywood hoopla. thing has been exaggerated. (It’s Day Robert Newton’s portrayal of Long Seattle residents themselves John Silver became the benchmark mainly a constant drizzle, not a Sept. 22 offer myriad reasons to shun their Many real pirates from the Golden of nearly every pirate to follow. So, downpour.) city: exorbitant gas prices, never- Age of piracy most likely spoke like perhaps September 19 should be ending rain, earthquakes, a So, what is it, Emerald City? Are Good Neighbor riverside-dwelling Londoners. After renamed Talk Like Robert Newton fleeting summer that begins in you awful or awesome? The only Day all, most pirates were former Day instead? To that we say in July and ends in September. Or way to find out may be to visit Sept. 28 English-speaking merchant sailors. sailing agreement, “Aye (eye) aye!” is the real truth that Seattle is so sometime soon. Page 2 Page 3 When Animals Are Gone but Not Forgotten Celebrating Tolkien This September the way of the dodo—the great Anyone who has owned a pet is J.R.R. Tolkien is author of The The Hobbit, but also of Frodo auk, the thylacine, the Carolina familiar with the feelings of loss once Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings Baggins, Bilbo’s nephew and hero parakeet, the Atlas bear, and even that pet has passed on. World trilogy, and The Silmarillion—a of The Lord of the Rings. the black rhinoceros are all now Animal Remembrance Month, fantasy world of Middle-earth, extinct. Some scientists are using The depth of the Tolkien obsession celebrated in September, has been inhabited by elves, dwarves, trolls, DNA in an attempt to turn science is perhaps best exemplified by the designated to remember all the good dragons, wizards, and the peaceful fiction into a real-life Jurassic Park. Tolkien Society—part fan club, part times with our companion animals. pint-sized people known as hobbits. In this popular Michel Crichton book charity, and part literary society. When Dolly the sheep won (later brought to film by Stephen The Lord of the Rings—with 150 The society hosts an annual event worldwide renown in 1996 as the Spielberg), dinosaur DNA is used to million copies sold—is the second known as Oxonmoot. In September, Tolkien was laid to rest best-selling English novel of all Tolkien enthusiasts travel to Oxford, first cloned animal, few may have create a theme park of cloned September 1973 in considered the possibility of cloning dinosaurs. And, right now, Harvard time, with The Hobbit (at 100 England, and attend educational Wolvercote Cemetery million) ranking third, according to seminars and art shows about all a family pet. But for the hearty sum scientists are busy trying to clone a in Oxford, England. of a hundred thousand dollars or woolly mammoth by reconstructing Ranker.com. Legions of Tolkien things Tolkien. This Tolkien-related Cloning could become two, a clone of a beloved pet is the entire mammoth genome. fans worldwide now celebrate gathering also includes a full-scale another way to exactly what families can get. September 22 as Hobbit Day. After masquerade ball; fans dress up as remember a beloved Sooam Biotech is already using While mammoths will not be all, September 22 is the birthday of their favorite characters from family pet. DNA to clone companion, pet, and roaming Earth any time soon, not just Bilbo Baggins, the hero of Tolkien’s tall-telling tales. police dogs in its South Korean many believe it is only a matter of laboratory. But it’s a buyer-beware time before we can successfully The Age of Being Googled from Birth to Space business; just because your pet replicate these long-lost animals in may look the same, there is no the laboratory. The most important Who could have known on Their mission statement was “to guarantee that it will have the same question on scientists’ lips is not September 4, 1998, that the organize the world’s information personality or temperament. “Could we?” but “Should we?” strange term google would come to and make it universally accessible Perhaps these scientists could be used in hundreds of languages and useful.” New Google projects Still others are using this fascinating watch Jurassic World, the latest across the planet? Seventeen hope to do that and much more.£ science not to bring pets back from film thriller in the Jurassic Park film years after the company’s September creation, it seems One Google innovation is the the dead but to resurrect extinct franchise, to see how these driverless vehicle, a technology animals. Many animals have gone experiments might play out. Google is a part of everyday life. Indeed, 62% of parents in a being used in cars from Audi, Popsugar poll even used Google to BMW, Mercedes, Toyota, and The Straight Doh About Play-Doh Google’s Internet search for their baby’s new name. other automakers. MIT Technology search engine Review claims self-driving vehicles Over 60 years, nearly one billion of school children. In 1956, Play- spawned the popular Google’s Internet search engine may eventually be safer and more pounds of Play-Doh have been Doh inventor Joe McVicker cut a “Google It” phrase.