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Friday, September 13, 2024 3:24 PM

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Dr. Henry Virkler (Administrator)

Articles from the Week of September 13, 2024

Explanation: Although I scan the Internet primarily for counseling articles, in the process I run across quotes and interesting facts that I sometimes include in these first two sections. If you’re just interested in the counseling articles, you can skip these first two sections and go directly to the section called Counseling Articles. HV

Interesting Quotes

If you think your boss is stupid, remember, you wouldn’t have a job if he was any smarter.

John Gotti

I work for myself, which is fun. Except when I call in sick, I know I'm lying.

Rita Rudner, comedian

The present is the only time in which any duty can be done or any grace received.

C.S. Lewis

They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Andy Warhol

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face… You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

When someone tells me “no” it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them.

Karen E. Quinones Miller, historian, author, and activist

There is no more lovely, friendly, and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.

Jonathan Sacks, rabbi and philosopher

Fascinating Facts

“In the 1930s, a skyscraper was rotated 90 degrees while everyone kept working inside.

“In 1929, the Indiana Bell Telephone Company purchased the Central Union Telephone Company, along with its eight-story headquarters in downtown Evansville, Indiana, as part of a plan to majorly expand its footprint in the area. First, it considered demolishing the Central Union Telephone building, which housed its administrative offices and telephone switchboards. But architect Kurt Vonnegut Sr. (yup, the father of author Kurt Vonnegut Jr.) had a different idea. Rather than raze the building and start from scratch, they could move it across the lot — 52 feet sideways, followed by a 90-degree turn — and expand from there. The plan didn’t just work; it was a resounding success. Not only did the eight-story, 11,000-ton building end up safely in its new location, but the offices remained fully operational during the monthlong moving process, with no disruptions to telephone service.

“The move was an impressive feat of engineering. The building’s support columns were lifted from their cast-iron bases at the foundation, and each was put on a temporary steel support. (The elevator shaft was modified to keep the car from going into the now-nonexistent basement.) Eighteen manually operated jacks moved the supports along a series of rollers three-eighths of an inch at a time, and the building traveled roughly 15 inches per hour. Workers had to be careful to move all the columns at the same pace, so they’d follow the lead of the construction foreman, who would blow a whistle to signal that it was time to pull the levers. Engineers kept an eye on the building’s alignment with a plumb bob; if a roller started to shift out of position, they’d simply whack it with a sledgehammer.

“When it was time for the 90-degree pivot, the crew had to lift the building briefly to adjust the rollers. Steam engines attached to cables helped power this final movement, rotating the structure into place. Ultimately, the building sat within one-sixteenth of an inch of its planned destination. During the move, the 600 employees entered and exited the building from the sidewalk via a moveable bridge. Reportedly, the workers inside the building didn’t even feel the movement. The project made way for a seven-story limestone art deco building, completed in 1932 and now on the National Register of Historic Places. The company continued to add to the campus, and the original building was demolished in 1963 to make room.” (Source: HistoryFacts.com)

“Tomatoes were called “love apples” because they were believed to be aphrodisiacs.” (Source: HistoryFacts.com)

Counseling Articles

Georgia school shooting suspect Colt Gray’s broken homelife: A mom with multiple drug arrests and a dad who gave him an AR-15 for Christmas

The sad story of the school shooting in a town north of Atlanta. The mother has a lengthy history of drug and domestic violence arrests. Reportedly, according to neighbors, she often locked her children out of the house and they would be beating on the doors to get in. Although Colt and his father were interviewed last year about supposed school threats he had posted online, he denied that he ever made threats, and his father recently purchased for him an AR-15. The father has now been charged with multiple second-degree murders and some other charges.