Enjoy the long weekend

It's Friday!!  Enjoy the long week...it started hours ago.  What are you waiting for?

Herstory

Women's Equality Day was celebrated in West Hollywood this week honoring the Women's Advisory Board's 20 years of service to the West Hollywood community.  Monday was the 93rd anniversary of the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote.  Keynote speaker was Grammy Award winning recording artist and feminist icon, Helen Reddy.  Her song, "I Am Woman" launched a generation of young women destined to be leaders.

Full Sturgeon [Moon]

     This month's full moon, which rises on Tuesday (August 20th) is not just a Blue Moon - it's also the full Sturgeon Moon, the Full Red Moon, the Green Corn Moon and the Grain Moon.  Today's full moon qualifies as a Blue Moon because it's the third full moon in the season with four.  A 1946 article in "Sky & Telescope" magazine mistakenly defined a blue moon as the 2nd full moon in a single month (since moth months have only one full moon), and it stuck.
     Although August only has one full moon, tonight's qualifies as the third full moon in a four-full-moon season.  Both Native Americans and early European settles added their own names for the full moons to the lexicon.  The annual August full moon has come to be known as the Full Sturgeon Moon, because sturgeon can most easily be caught at this time of year according to native tribes in the Great Lakes region.  Another name is the Full Red Moon because the weather conditions can make it look reddish when it rises.  And finally, because crops grow tall at this time of year, the moon is also known as Green Corn Moon or Grain Moon.

Pet Friendly

This is the kind of dog I need for the office.  As a 'pet friendly' hotel, even the department heads bring their dogs to work some days.  In sales the pressure is always on and I can't quite believe a goldfish would have the same impact.

Travel Facts

The luxury travel sector has performed a rapid rebound from its slump during the downturn and is poised to grow even stronger as renewed confidence in the economy continues to spur affluent consumers to return to traveling, observers say.  The segment has also received a new, thriving market composed of younger luxury travelers on the lookout for unique adventures.

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