A PLANE RIDE AWAY FROM ALL MUSE READERS AND A TRAIN OR CAR RIDE AWAY FOR NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY READERS
New York September 4-7, 2009
On 9/4, we flew to LaGuardia Airport, getting a clear view of Statue of Liberty, lunch at Sweet Shop in Northport, Long Island. The original inhabitants of the area now known as Northport were the Matinecocks, one of 13 Native American tribes of Long Island. The Matinecocks called this land "Opcathontyche", which meant "wading place creek".[1] With land that was well suited for farming, the early settlers grazed cattle on pastures around the harbor. The area soon became known as Great Cow Harbor.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northport,_New_York http://www.northportny.com/
We walked around the harbor, and had dinner at Mill Pond House in Centerport (formerly known as Little Cow Harbor). http://www.millpondrestaurant.com/main/index.php
9/5 family barbeque
9/6 walked around Hoboken, viewing its park, office buildings, stunning view over the Hudson River of Manhattan, shops including Carlo's Bakery, the 99-year-old institution across from City Hall, the subject of "Cake Boss," another in the stream of television reality shows. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-hometown-hoboken9-2009aug09,0,737139.story
brunch at Court Street Restaurant http://www.courtstreet.com/
took Holland Tunnel to Manhattan to view World Trade Center site,
saw revised version of West Side Story, http://www.playbill.com/events/event_detail/14713-West_Side_Story_at_Palace_Theatre
strolled down Restaurant Row on 46th, selecting Capri for dinner. http://www.capri46.com/
down to Battery Park City, good view of Statue of Liberty at night
9/7 home stopping in Ann Arbor at BD’s Mongolian Grill for a quick meal where we selected food from an array of meat, seafood, vegetables, sauces and spices. http://www.gomongo.com/

Examples of days with certain numbers
Square root day 3/3/09
Odd day 3/31/09
Even day 2/2/10
Alike day 9/9/09
Golden/star/lucky/champagne birthday
9/23/09 (and you turn 23) 12/20/09 (and you turn 20) born in 1919 (and you turn 19)

Annual Institute for Policy Studies "Executive Excess" Report
America's Bailout Barons - Taxpayers, High Finance, and the CEO Pay Bubble. Institute for Policy Studies. 16th Annual Executive Compensation.
“The 20 U.S. financial firms that have received the most bailout dollars from taxpayers awarded their top five executive officers, in the three years through 2008, pay packages worth a combined $3.2 billion. These 100 financial executives, on their way to driving the U.S. economy off a cliff, averaged $32 million each. One hundred U.S. workers making the 2008 annual average wage would have to labor over 1,000 years to make as much as these 100 executives made in three. Financial pay far above average: In 2008, the year taxpayers rescued the financial industry, chief executives at the top 20 financial recipients of bailout dollars earned 37 percent more than their CEO counterparts elsewhere in the U.S. economy. These high-finance CEOs averaged $13.8 million last year. S&P 500 CEOs, by comparison, averaged $10.1 million."
http://www.ips-dc.org/globaleconomy

Site Compares 4 Online Map Services on One Page
Via Google Maps Mania: "Maps Compare [created by Hussein Nasser] is a website with four different on-line map services on one page . The site places Google Maps, the Google Earth browser plugin, Yahoo Maps and Bing Maps beside each other, which can be quite useful if you want to compare the map coverage provided by each provider in different locations."

Toledo’s motto, "Laborare est Orare," freely translated, means "To work is to pray."
http://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/us-oh-to.html
Find information on other cities at Flags of the World: http://crwflags.com/fotw/flags/
Find schools and organizations with same motto: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22Laborare+est+Orare%22+motto&aq=f&oq=&aqi=

What is the most common letter used in English? It must be E because our keyboard has only one “disappearing” letter—the E now resembles an F.