Random Fact - Wednesday

If you touch your tongue while yawning, it can stop the yawn.

Agenda - Welcome back Tuesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Be prepared to walk tomorrow!
• P.L.A.C.E. starts tomorrow
• Math problem solver - Fish - Due tomorrow
• Bring lunch tomorrow
• Operation X-mas child

Cracking your knuckles does not actually hurt your bones or cause arthritis. The sound you hear is just gas bubbles bursting.

Cracking your knuckles (or any of your joints) can have therapeutic benefits. When you crack one of your joints you are pulling the bones that are connected at the joint apart from each other. This process stimulates your tendons, relaxes your muscles, and loosens your joints. Chiropractors do this for spinal joints when your back is sore and stiff, but you can do this on your own for your knuckles, toes, knees, neck, etc.

Unfortunately, there can be too much of a good thing. Cracking your knuckles will never lead to arthritis (despite what your mom keeps telling you), but scientists have discovered that it can cause tissue damage in the affected joints. Knuckle-cracking pulls your finger bones apart which stretches your ligaments. Too much stretching of your ligaments will cause damage to your fingers akin to the arm injuries sustained by a baseball pitcher who throws too many pitches. In addition to making your hand really sore, this ligament damage can also result in reduced grip strength.

How does this work? Your joints, the places in your body where you can bend, are where your bones intersect and are held together by ligaments. These joints are surrounded by a liquid called synovial fluid. When you stretch your ligaments by pulling the bones apart to crack your knuckles a gas in the synovial fluid escapes and turns into a bubble. This process is called cavitation. Cavitation ends when the bubble eventually bursts, producing that popping sound we know and love. After that, your joints won't be able to crack for another 25-30 minutes while the gas gets reabsorbed into the synovial fluid.
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Agenda - Friday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Bany, Taylen, Delaney, Austin, True - Reading Logs
• ITN - Tuesday - Bany
• No School Monday (Remembrance Day)
• PLACE starts next week (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday)
• Social Maps are now overdue
• PLACE notes go home today (Everyone but Cassie)

American Airlines saved $40 000 a year by taking out ONE olive from each salad they served

When it comes to cutting costs, taking out a single olive might not seem like the most effective way to go. But for American Airlines in 2001, it worked out quite well. Following 9/11, airlines were having some difficulty. There were numerous other factors involved, but the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center and Pentagon had left people a little uneasy about airplane travel, in the same way that movie ticket sales have been down following the recent shooting in Colorado.
To show an example, American Airlines’ then rival, United Airlines, was doing so poorly that they would have needed to fill 103% of their seats just to break even. So Bob Crandall, the former chief of AA, made many cost cutting decisions- including removing one olive from each salad.
While one olive might not seem like much cost saving, all the olives taken out made up a $40,000 drop in in-flight meal costs per year.

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Agenda - Thursday (Early D)

Students, please note the following in your agendas: 

• Wear black and red for Remembrance Day tomorrow
• Poppy Money (Donations)
• Library tomorrow - Bring your books back
• Remembrance Day service tomorrow at 11:00

Agenda - Wednesday

Students, please note the following in your agendas:

• Early D tomorrow
• True and Taylen - ITN
• Red and Black day Friday