Vitamin C

It’s cold season, which has many of us reaching for our Vitamin C. But, the jury’s still out on whether taking large doses of the vitamin really has an effect on the common cold. Tests have shown that adults who take 1g of Vitamin C daily will reduce the duration of their colds by 8 percent, meaning that over the course of a year, an adult might save a day of being down with the sniffles. Greater impact was found on those who took 1-3g of the vitamin before strenuous exercise, like running a marathon. Those people reduced their incidence of colds by half.

Grip

In the U.S. and Canada, grips are lighting and rigging technicians in the film and video industries. They make up their own department on a film set and are led by a key grip. Grips have two main functions. The first is to work closely with the camera department, especially if the camera is mounted to a dolly, crane or other unusual position. Some grips may specialize in operating camera dollies or camera cranes. The second is to work closely with the electrical department to put in the lighting set-ups necessary for a shot.The term ‘grip’ dates back to the early era of the circus.(Wikipedia)

Fools

“Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” So says Feste in William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Shakespeare indeed suffered fools gladly: he wrote of fools, populated his plays with them, and gave them some of his best lines. Consider: “Lord what fools these mortals be.” That line comes from A Midsummer’s Night’s Dream, with the mischievous fairy Puck blaming the mortal lovers for actions that were actually brought on by his own mistake. In Shakespeare’s As You Like It, Jacques cries, “A fool, A fool! I met a fool i’ the forest, A motley fool” — the term motley referring to the multicolored dress of the jesters at that time. And, in The Merchant of Venice, the play’s jester, Gratiano, defends himself with this sentiment, “Let me play the fool, With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.”