Who says government doesn’t always know best? And if government says you can’t legally park in your driveway, they must be right. People in Toledo are all upset because they’re receiving parking tickets for doing the unheard of. The criminal act of parking their cars in front of their house. And the acts of criminality have become so rampant that the Mayor has deputized city workers (instead of police officers and the parking division of the city) to roam the hardscrabble streets to issue $25 parking citations to individuals who have committed this heinous crime. Not every citizen is getting a ticket. Only those who don’t have their driveways paved. Mayor Carty Finkbeiner, who surprisingly is facing a recall, says he stands by the Acting Commissioner of Streets, Bridges and Harbor’s decision to ticket citizens who park in their driveways. “Every law in the city should be enforced and I will defer to the director over the media, that’s for dag-gone sure,” Mayor Finkbeiner said in a press conference last night. “I will not second guess her because more times then not she’s right and the citizens that are criticizing her are not right.” http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/06/16/park-in-your-own-driveway-youre-a-criminal/

Official Google Blog: "...Citizentube, a special YouTube blog devoted to chronicling the way that people are using video to change the world. If you've followed news and politics on YouTube, you might have noticed that we started Citizentube as a video channel on the site a few years back, but we soon realized that keeping track of all the phenomenal uses of YouTube by posting our own videos just wasn't fast enough—so now we're blogging, too. We generally focus on two types of posts: the compelling political and social uses of YouTube that we see the community bubble up every day, and our own programming initiatives and partnerships in the political, news, and nonprofit arenas."

MISQUOTES
Media reports stated that Al Gore claimed he "invented the Internet." — Al Gore [C, M]
During a 9 March 1999 interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer, Gore stated, "During my service in the United States Congress I took the initiative in creating the internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth and environmental protection, improvements in our educational system." [4] See Al Gore's Contributions to the Internet and technology: 1999 CNN Interview for more information.

All that glitters is not gold." – The Prince of Morocco in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare [C]
Actual quote: "All that glisters is not gold."

"Elementary, my dear Watson." — Sherlock Holmes [C]
The complete phrase "Elementary, my dear Watson" does not appear in any of the 60 Holmes stories written by Doyle. It appears for the first time at the very end of the 1929 film The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

[C] A corruption or mistranslation of the original phrase, possibly accidental, which became better known than the original.
[M] A deliberate misquoting or made-up quote intended to discredit the alleged speaker.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_misquotations

It’s the third week of June and that means my Juneberries (aka serviceberries) are ready to pick and enjoy. The understory shrub or tree, also called shadbush, grows up to 30 ft. tall in clumps and lives 60 years. The flowers bloom at the same time that shad ascend coastal streams to spawn in the East. http://www.yale.edu/fes505b/shadbush.html

The 45th parallel north is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees north of the Earth's equatorial plane. The 45th parallel north is often called the halfway point between the Equator and the North Pole, but the true halfway point is actually 16.2 kilometres (10.1 mi) north of the 45th parallel because the Earth is oblate, that is, it bulges at the equator and is flattened at the poles.[1] In Michigan, the Old Mission Peninsula in Grand Traverse Bay ends just shy of the 45th parallel. When the Grand Traverse Bay recedes below normal level, it is possible to walk out to the exact line. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th_parallel_north

The 45th parallel south is a circle of latitude that is 45 degrees south of the Earth's equatorial plane. The parallel is the line that marks the theoretical halfway point between the equator and the South Pole. The true halfway point is somewhat south of this parallel because the Earth is not a perfect sphere but bulges at the equator and is flattened at the poles.[1] Unlike its northern counterpart it passes mostly over open ocean. The exceptions are the southern end of South America where it crosses the Aisén Region of Chile and Chubut Province of Argentina, and southern New Zealand where it crosses the South Island immediately north of Oamaru. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/45th_parallel_south

Shoppers can now buy pasta that's enriched with calcium, ketchup that boasts probiotics for digestive wellness and soda that's host to an array of daily vitamins. Japanese exporter EIWA Confectionery is marketing marshmallows infused with skin-boosting collagen, and Canada Dry has introduced a heart-healthy ginger ale pumped with green tea, thought to reduce the incidence of heart disease. Fortified foods are nothing new. Iodine was first added to salt in Michigan in 1924 in order to help reduce the prevalence of goiter, which had reached an alarming rate of 47% in that state. The measure worked so well that it led to the voluntary iodization of the product for the entire country. It also paved the way for a cascade of similar, mandatory approaches. Brain-and-skin degenerating pellagra was almost completely eradicated within about a decade after breads and grains were enriched with niacin, thiamin, riboflavin and iron in 1943.
In 1998, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration made it mandatory to add folic acid to enriched grains such as breads and cereals with the goal of reducing neural-tube defects in babies. Between then and 2004, the number of infants born with neural-tube defects went down by 25%, according a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-sponsored study, which concluded that folic acid fortification was at least partially responsible for the drop. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124267976477131801.html