2015 September 2015

Googled at Birth September Birthdays ARBOR OAKS AT TYRONE Who could have known In astrology, those born between the 1st and on September 4, 1998, 22nd of September are Virginal Virgos. Virgos An Assisted Living Residence that the strange term are industrious, efficient, and pay close TH google would come to attention to details, which is why they tend to 1701 68 Street North Saint Petersburg, Fl 33710 be used in hundreds of get the job done right on the first try. Those Phone: (727)345-8900 Fax: (727)347-0709 languages across the born between September 23rd and 30th planet? Seventeen years after the company’s balance the scales of Libra. Libras seek Music to Our Ears September creation, it seems Google is a part of harmony and value fairness and justice. Celebrating September September is Classical Music Month, Piano Month, our everyday life. Google’s Internet search Although they’d rather avoid conflict, they are and Southern Gospel Music Month. As if this isn’t engine and e-mail are its most well-known tools, excellent team players who are tactful and Intergeneration Month enough music to our ears, September is also a time to but that technology is small potatoes compared polite at soothing those embroiled in argument. get out of our chairs and dance. This month marks to what Google (derived from the term googol, a Square Dancing Month and the celebration of Line mathematical term for the number 1 followed by Lily Tomlin (comedian) – September 1, 1939 Coupon Month Dancing Week from September 14–19. 100 zeros) hopes to achieve in the future. Bob Newhart (comedian) – September 5, 1929 Grandma Moses (artist) – September 7, 1860 World Alzheimer’s Month Music is not just an enjoyable distraction. Research Google began at Stanford University in Otis Redding (singer) – September 9, 1941 shows that music has the ability to alter the chemical California. Two PhD students, Larry Page and Agatha Christie (author) – September 15, 1890 processes of the brain in healthy ways. It may come Sergey Brin, wanted a better way to search for Frankie Avalon (singer) – September 18, 1940 Labor Day as no surprise that music can reduce amounts of the information on the Internet. Their mission Jim Henson (puppeteer) – September 24,1936 September 7 stress hormone cortisol. But did you know that listening statement was “to organize the world’s to pleasurable music actually strengthens our immune T.S. Eliot (poet) – September 26, 1888 information and make it universally accessible Gene Autry (singer) – September 29, 1907 systems? Music is associated with the antibody and useful.” New Google projects hope to do Remembrance Day immunoglobulin A, which helps the immune system Fran Drescher (actress) – September 30, 1957 that and much more. September 11 identify and fight off harmful germs and bacteria. Research also links classical music to immediate Another Google innovation Spiritual Centenarian’s Day improvements in epilepsy and autism symptoms and is the driverless vehicle, a Connection some spatial reasoning tests (dubbed the “Mozart technology being used in Resident Birthdays September 22 Sunday Mornings Effect”). And classical dance is being used as therapy cars from Audi, BMW, Sept 6 Barbara MacMinn 9:15 Catholic for those with dementia and Parkinson’s. Participants Mercedes, Toyota, and Sept 8 Carolyn Yeager Communion Women’s Health showed improvements in motor and cognitive other automakers. MIT Sept 16 Anne Steele 10:15 Church Service and Fitness Day 2nd Floor Activity functions, and other mental symptoms. Technology Review claims self-driving vehicles Sept 17 Doris Macomber September 30 Room may eventually be safer and more fuel-efficient Sept 22 Martha Crown ~~~~ Research also shows that when we listen to music, than any car on the road. Prototypes of Google’s Sept 24 Donna Connolly 1st Wednesday Each several areas of our brains—those governing basic model have logged more than 700,000 Sept 25 Robert Powers Month Daily Meals movement, attention, planning, and memory—are miles of safe driving. Sept 26 Ludwig Zuber Rosary @ 4:00 simultaneously activated. In this way, people who Ice Cream Parlor Serving ALF Evergreen Sept 26 Mary Martin listen to music together are actually sharing a In the kitchen, Google also is inventing a Sept 28 John Crown Breakfast 8:00 9:00 common experience; all their brains begin working on refrigerator that orders milk for you. In fact, Department Sept 30 Anna Hall the same wavelength. Doctors speculate this is why Google wants your whole house to be smarter: Heads Lunch 2:00 1:00 Employee Birthdays music is such a unifying force. Perhaps, too, this is self-adjusting thermostats, remote control coffee Executive Director Dinner 5:00 6:00 Sept 21 Brianna Page Susanne Snyder why there are so many synchronized social dances. pots and lights, even a “smart” dressing room that tells you what clothes are fashion forward. Business Manager Is there no end to music’s benefits? Lowered stress, boosted immune systems, workouts for both brain and Google X, Google’s secret research and Christina DiPolito body... The next thing we’ll learn is that music helps development lab, has even researched an

Activities Director the listener eat more when needed. Wait, there’s elevator into space. Apparently, many are Sandy Stran research to suggest soft music offers that benefit, too. interested in a way to leave Earth without the Like us on Facebook use of rockets. Someday soon, we could be Dietary Director Last month article correction, It was, “A Daily Glass of Arbor Oaks at Tyrone “googling” ourselves into outer space. William Highberger RED Wine and a V8 juice”. The secret to living a long

life Quoted by; Mr. Robert Wetstein DOB 5/8/1913

September 2015 September 2015

Celebrating Tolkien Week Home of the Whopper Gone but Not Forgotten Avast Ye Misnomers

September 19 means it’s once again Talk Like J.R.R. Tolkien is best It’s no lie; in New Harmony, Indiana, the third Anyone who has known as the author of Saturday in September brings the Big Whopper owned a pet is familiar a Pirate Day. Does this mean we should go The , The Lord of Liar’s Contest. These aren’t little white lies but with the feelings of around spouting “Arrgh” and “Ahoy, matey”? the Rings trilogy, and The long, well-wrought yarns expertly crafted to loss once that pet has Researchers chalk up this type of pirate Silmarillion. This set of passed on. World speech as nothing but Hollywood hoopla. bring tears of laughter to audience members’ books conjures the eyes. There was the one story about a woman Animal Remembrance Many real pirates from the Golden Age of fantasy world of Middle- who discovered that her grandma’s trick for the Month, celebrated in piracy most likely spoke like riverside-dwelling earth, a magical place perfect piecrust involved pressing her false September, has been designated to remember Londoners. After all, those pirates were often inhabited by elves, teeth into the dough. Then there’s the hunting all the good times with our companion animals. former English-speaking merchant sailors. dwarves, trolls, , , and, of tale of the boy who had his great granddad’s When Dolly the sheep won worldwide renown in Most pirate myths—from speech patterns to course, the peaceful and portly race of pint-sized rifle full of enough shot to take down a 1996 as the first cloned animal, few may have parrots, eye patches, and peg legs—come people known as . The Lord of the rattlesnake, a charging wild boar, an 11-point considered the possibility of cloning a family pet. from the book Treasure Island by Robert Louis Rings—with 150 million copies sold—is the buck, and 13 turkeys sitting on a tree limb. But for the hearty sum of a hundred thousand Stevenson. When Disney turned the book into second best-selling English novel of all time, While the grand prize won’t make you rich, dollars or two, a clone of a beloved pet is a movie in the 1950s, actor Robert Newton’s with (at 100 million) ranking third, your reputation will certainly precede you. portrayal of Long John Silver became the according to Ranker.com. The legions of Tolkien exactly what families can get. Sooam Biotech is already using DNA to clone companion, pet, benchmark of nearly every pirate to follow. So, fans worldwide now celebrate September 22 as perhaps September 19 should be renamed and police dogs in its South Korean laboratory. Hobbit Day. After all, September 22 is the Unwelcome to the Emerald City Talk Like Robert Newton Day? Aye aye! birthday of not just , the hero of But it’s a buyer-beware business; just because Most cities love an influx The Hobbit, but also of , Bilbo’s your pet may look the same, there is no of tourists. Tourists, nephew and hero of . guarantee that it will have the same personality after all, bring dollars. or temperament. The Straight Doh

The more popular a city As if one day were not enough to honor Tolkien Over 60 years, nearly one is, the more those Still others are using this fascinating science not and his fiction, the entire week surrounding billion pounds of Play- dollars add up. So it to bring pets back from the dead but to resurrect September 22 is now celebrated as Tolkien Doh have been extruded is very strange extinct animals. Many animals have gone the Week. After all, there is so much more to into billions of little plastic indeed that September 16 is Stay Away from way of the dodo—the great auk, the thylacine, Tolkien’s story than just hobbits; he created an canisters for kids to play Seattle Day, a day when Seattleites request for the Carolina parakeet, the Atlas bear, and even entire universe complete with several languages with. In 1998, this modeling compound was and its own mythology. everyone to please refrain from visiting their the black rhinoceros are all now extinct. even inducted into the National Toy Hall of wet Pacific Northwest city. The depth of the Tolkien obsession is perhaps Some scientists are using DNA in an attempt to Fame. And now it has its own holiday on best exemplified by —part Seattle residents themselves offer myriad turn science fiction into a real-life Jurassic Park. September 16: National Play-Doh Day. reasons to shun their city: exorbitant gas In this popular Michel Crichton book (later fan club, part charity, and part literary society. In Play-Doh wasn’t originally intended as a toy. prices, never-ending rain, earthquakes, a brought to film by Stephen Spielberg), dinosaur addition to publishing a journal of Tolkien Invented to be wallpaper cleaner (rolled on fleeting summer that begins in July and ends in DNA is used to create a theme park of cloned scholarship and maintaining an extensive walls to remove dirt and grime), the glob of off- September. Or is the real truth that Seattle is dinosaurs. And, right now, Harvard scientists Tolkien archive, the society also hosts an annual white putty soon inspired the imagination of so wonderful that its residents want to keep it are busy trying to clone a woolly mammoth by event known as . Each September school children. In 1956, Play-Doh inventor Joe Tolkien enthusiasts travel to Oxford, England, all for themselves? It is world-renowned for its reconstructing the entire mammoth genome. McVicker cut a deal with Captain Kangaroo and coffee (thank you, Starbucks), doughnuts and attend a long-weekend’s worth of seminars While mammoths will not be roaming Earth any other children’s show hosts to promote the (thank you, Top Pot), and salmon (thank you, and art shows about all things Tolkien. This time soon, many believe it is only a matter of product. Today, Play-Doh fills a reported 100- Mother Nature). Then there’s the unparalleled Tolkien-related gathering also includes a time before we can successfully replicate these million-plus cans with colorful putty every year. natural beauty, great music scene, a cutting- masquerade ball, where fans dress up as their long-lost animals in the laboratory. The most edge technology industry, and hey, we even favorite fantasy characters. For those unable to important question on scientists’ lips is not While the official recipe is a trade secret, there hear the whole rain thing has been make the pilgrimage to Oxford, perhaps the best “Could we?” but “Should we?” Perhaps these are many unofficial recipes for homemade exaggerated. (It’s mainly a constant drizzle, not way to celebrate Tolkien Week is to read his scientists could watch Jurassic World, the latest dough. What you may not be able to replicate, a downpour.) So, what is it, Emerald City? Are novels, watch the film versions of the books, and film thriller in the Jurassic Park film franchise, to however, is Play-Doh’s trademark smell. But you awful or awesome? The only way to find complain about the many inaccuracies and see how these experiments might play out. even this was offered on its 50th anniversary liberties taken by the films’ directors. out may be to visit sometime soon. —as a Demeter-brand cologne for creatives.