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November 7, 2009
Volume 7, Number 21
ISSN 1554-6330

In this issue:

1. Carpenter Country
2. Top Drawer Article
3. Top Drawer Tips
4. Top Drawer Satire

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CARPENTER COUNTRY
What's Happening in Our Neck of the Human Experience

 

Carpenter Country’s short one has never been bothered by the time shift before. In fact last Sunday when Old Sol lit up the sky at 6:30, her first thought was – Good! Daylight makes it easier to get out of bed.

But by noon, she’d switched to bad, because her stomach had been growling for an hour. And the ugly came on at five forty-five when she decided to head outside for her nightly hike around the block and found the moon rising over the treetops.

It was definitely going to be a long evening.

Countless hours of flat screen murder and mayhem later, the clock chimed good night and she decided to call it quits – even though she was still wide awake.

Losing sixty minutes had knocked the heck out of her natural circadian rhythm. Worse yet, about the time she’d get it all back together, the clocks would have to be changed again.

And who came up with the idea of moving the hour-hand to and fro anyway?

Oh yeah, that would be Ben Franklin. History mentions he also coined: Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Probably just a bit of skewed advice he concocted to promote his daylight saving brainstorm.

Too bad the short one wasn’t around when he weighed in with that troublesome spring/fall routine –

It would have been great fun to rearrange his clock!

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TOP DRAWER ARTICLE

Daylight Saving Time
by
HL Carpenter

 

What’s your opinion of Daylight Saving Time (DST), which ended November 1? Do you think changing the clock keeps you safer and healthier, decreases greenhouse emissions and helps the economy? Or are you less convinced of the benefits?

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TOP DRAWER TIPS
Topics and Tidbits

 

Tip: The Energy Policy Act of 2005 extended the length of Daylight Saving Time by two months. The increased duration became effective in 2007. In areas of the US that observe the annual change of time, DST now begins on 2 a.m. local time on the second Sunday in March, and lasts until 2 a.m. local time on the first Sunday of November. The remaining months are on what’s called standard time in the US.

Glossary Term: Coordinated Universal Time (UCT). A worldwide time system determined by atomic clocks. UCT is sometimes called Greenwich Mean Time, which represents the time at the Earth's prime meridian (0° longitude) located near Greenwich, England

Financial Horoscope: Is it time you did something with your money? The concepts of time and money seem inextricably linked, and you can always spend one to save the other. The choice of what to do with which is up to you. Choose wisely.

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TOP DRAWER SATIRE

No Shortage of Blame
by
HL Carpenter

 

Americans anxious about the possibility of missing out on their fair share of Blame can relax. The government is positive there is plenty to go around.

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