From: Will Ford To: undisclosed-recipients:; Bcc: IMIEla t `Ma> Subject: Sep 6th tidbits & quotes Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 11:46:21 +0000 Attachments: mime_part_l.pdf "Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it." - Mark Twain Volvo invented the three-point seat belt, then gave free license to all other auto manufacturers to use it. • Fantasy football leads to an estimated $20 billion loss in productivity every year. • North Dakota has the most intense fantasy football participation by state. • The first ever fantasy football draft was held in 1963 and the first overall No. 1 pick was George Blanda. • The best all-time single season fantasy performance was Tom Brady in 2007. • However, Brady followed his record-breaking performance by suffering a season-ending injury in the first game of the 2008 season, costing an estimated $150 million shift in potential winnings for fantasy owners who drafted him that season. "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." - Ralph Waldo Emerson DEPT. OF WILDLIFE - CAPE FEAR - Tracking the sharks of New England. BY ALEC WILKINSON (SEPTEMBER 9, 2013) - When I was a child, growing up summers in Wellfleet, people said that there couldn't be sharks in the water, because the water was too cold. They had apparently not read Thoreau. In "Cape Cod," published in 1865, he writes that he saw "the relics of a human body, mangled by sharks." A wrecker—someone who scavenged shipwrecks—told him that he had caught a "man-eating shark fourteen feet long" where Thoreau had just swum. "Man-eater" is a bygone name for a great white shark; scientists simply call them white sharks. They were also called "white death." Their undersides are white, and their tops are gray, and a modem name for them is "the men in gray suits." They are solitary animals, and in the Atlantic they are sufficiently uncommon that no o