Baby can read at 17 months

Elizabeth Barrett is now 17 months old. She looks and acts like most babies her age, but Elizabeth can read. Her mother Katy, a speech pathologist who is married to Michael, another speech pathologist, said that most people don't believe their infant is a reader.
Aside from reading books every day, play-time means mom writes down a word on paper and Elizabeth figures it out. Katy explained that Elizabeth not only reads the word, but signs them as well.
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Katy is convinced that sign language helped launch her daughter's reading skills, partly by watching shows like "Signing Times" on public television.So what does her doctor think? Dr. Steve Stripling, Elizabeth's pediatrician, says at 14 months he saw her sight read the word avocado. "I was floored", he said. The Barretts say they weren't trying to impress the doctor when they showed him what Elizabeth could do. It was more important for them to know that she didn't have some condition, like autism.

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AMEN: The only part of a prayer that everyone knows.
BULLETIN: Your receipt for attending Mass.
CHOIR: A group of people whose singing allows the rest of the Parish to lip-sync.
HOLY WATER: A liquid whose chemical formula is H2OLY.
HYMN: A song of praise usually sung in a key three octaves higher than that of the congregation’s range.
RECESSIONAL HYMN: The last song at Mass often sung a little more quietly, since most of the people have already left.
INCENSE: Holy Smoke!
JESUITS: An order of priests known for their uncanny ability to find colleges with good basketball teams.
JONAH: The original “Jaws” story.
JUSTICE: When kids have kids of their own.
KYRIE ELEISON: The only Greek words that most Catholics can recognize besides gyros and baklava. (For you non-Catholics it means Lord have mercy.)
MAGI: The most famous trio to attend a baby shower.
MANGER: Where Mary gave birth to Jesus because Joseph wasn’t covered by an HMO. (The Bible’s way of showing us that holiday travel has always been rough.)
PEW: A medieval torture device still found in Catholic churches.
PROCESSION: The ceremonial formation at the beginning of Mass consisting of altar servers, the celebrant, and late parishioners looking for seats.
RECESSIONAL: The ceremonial procession at the conclusion of Mass led by parishioners trying to beat the crowd to the parking lot.
RELICS: People who have been going to Mass for so long, they actually know when to sit, kneel, and stand.

Exercise for people 50 and over ….

Begin by standing on a comfortable surface, where you have plenty of room at each side.
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With a 5-lb potato sack in each hand, extend your arms straight out from your sides and hold them there as long as you can. Try to reach a full minute, and then relax. Each day you’ll find that you can hold this position for just a bit longer.
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After a couple of weeks, move up to 10-lb potato sacks. Then try 50-lb potato sacks and then eventually try to get to where y0u can lift a 100-lb potato sack in each hand and hold your arms straight for more than a full minute. (I’m at this level.)
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After you feel confident at that level, put a potato in each of the sacks.

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… watching everything you do on the internet.

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Octopus with Six Legs

He is an octopus, but this new recruit at Anglesey Sea Zoo is a couple of legs short of the usual eight.
Staff had never seen anything like their six-legged arrival, and have christened him Henry the hexapus.
He was found in a lobster pot off north Wales, and they believe his shortage of limbs is the result of a birth defect, rather than an accident.
Henry will go on display with other octopuses in a new exhibition called Suckers at Blackpool Sea Life Centre.
Staff only realised his deficiencies, however, when he stuck himself to a glass display tank.
Displays supervisor Carey Duckhouse said: "We've scoured the internet and talked to lots of other aquariums and no-one has ever heard of another case of a six-legged octopus."
Henry is one of eight creatures of a breed known as "lesser octopuses".
He was found two weeks ago and taken to Anglesey, where his lack of legs was first spotted.
Octopuses need subdued lighting and flash photography can be fatal.
But a quick-thinking staff member snapped the best picture he could before Henry found a different resting place with his legs tucked beneath him. Octopuses are renowned for having three hearts, blue blood and the ability to alter their skin complexion in the blink of an eye.