Learn how to juggle!
Using three tennis balls, oranges, or anything similar, try this:
1. Assuming you are right handed, put two balls in your right hand, and one in your left.
2. Throw one of the balls in your right hand to your left and catch it. The ball should go up about two feet when you throw it.
3. Throw the same ball back to your right hand. So far, all you're doing is holding two balls, while you throw the third back and forth. Get comfortable with this step.
4. Now, going back to starting with two balls in your right hand, and one in your left, throw one of the right hand balls to the left again, but just before you catch it, throw the ball in your left hand to your right. The sequence is throw, throw, catch, catch. Avoid the temptation to throw both balls at nearly the same time, and make sure they each go about two feet high. What you are doing is separating the events in time, so that you only have to concentrate on one throw or catch at a time. Practice this many times until it is a smooth, throw, throw, catch, catch rhythm.
5. Do everything the same as in step 4, but start with two balls in your left hand, and start with a throw from your left. So again, it is just two throws, and two catches.
6. Going back to a right-hand start, try three throws in a row. Again, remember that each should have its own place in time. There is a strong tendency to rush through it, and throw all the balls at nearly the same time, or throw the last two hurriedly. There is also a tendency to throw the balls less than 2 feet high. Avoid these two problems.
7. Once you can do three throws and catches, you are juggling. Now, go on to four, five and more throws. Most people find themselves running forward within a few throws. This is the result of a natural preservation instinct. No one wants to get hit in the face with an object, even if it is a soft tennis ball or beanbag. So, we throw them a bit forward. Practice eliminates this problem.
Source: The Almanac 1997.
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President Bill Clinton's Speech, Aug. 17, 1998 (Lewinsky Affair)
President Bill Clinton
Aug. 17, 1998
CLINTON: Good evening.
This afternoon in this room, from this chair, I testified
before the Office of Independent Counsel and the
grand jury.
I answered their questions truthfully, including
questions about my private life, questions no
American citizen would ever want to answer.
Still, I must take complete responsibility for all my
actions, both public and private. And that is why I
am speaking to you tonight.
As you know, in a deposition in January, I was
asked questions about my relationship with Monica
Lewinsky. While my answers were legally accurate,
I did not volunteer information.
Indeed, I did have a relationship with Miss Lewinsky
that was not appropriate. In fact, it was wrong. It
constituted a critical lapse in judgment and a
personal failure on my part for which I am solely and
completely responsible.
But I told the grand jury today and I say to you now
that at no time did I ask anyone to lie, to hide or
destroy evidence or to take any other unlawful
action.
I know that my public comments and my silence
about this matter gave a false impression. I misled
people, including even my wife. I deeply regret that.
I can only tell you I was motivated by many factors.
First, by a desire to protect myself from the
embarrassment of my own conduct.
I was also very concerned about protecting my
family. The fact that these questions were being
asked in a politically inspired lawsuit, which has since
been dismissed, was a consideration, too.
In addition, I had real and serious concerns about an
independent counsel investigation that began with
private business dealings 20 years ago, dealings I
might add about which an independent federal
agency found no evidence of any wrongdoing by me
or my wife over two years ago.
The independent counsel investigation moved on to
my staff and friends, then into my private life. And
now the investigation itself is under investigation.
This has gone on too long, cost too much and hurt
too many innocent people.
Now, this matter is between me, the two people I
love most -- my wife and our daughter -- and our
God. I must put it right, and I am prepared to do
whatever it takes to do so.
Nothing is more important to me personally. But it is
private, and I intend to reclaim my family life for my
family. It's nobody's business but ours.
Even presidents have private lives. It is time to stop
the pursuit of personal destruction and the prying into
private lives and get on with our national life.
Our country has been distracted by this matter for
too long, and I take my responsibility for my part in
all of this. That is all I can do.
Now it is time -- in fact, it is past time to move on.
We have important work to do -- real opportunities
to seize, real problems to solve, real security matters
to face.
And so tonight, I ask you to turn away from the
spectacle of the past seven months, to repair the
fabric of our national discourse, and to return our
attention to all the challenges and all the promise of
the next American century.
Thank you for watching. And good night.
Monday, August 17, 1998
Kennedy - Lincoln Similarities
Here's a little part of US history which makes you wonder
Coincidence?
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.
The names Lincoln and Kennedy each contain seven letters.
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White
House.
Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both were shot in the head.
Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's secretary was named Lincoln.
Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners.
Both successors were named Johnson.
Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.
John Wilkes Booth,was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald,was born in 1939.
Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are comprised of fifteen letters
Booth ran from the theater and was caught in a warehouse.
Oswald ran from a warehouse and was caught in a theater.
Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.
Royal Herald Tribune Staff
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