Normal is a Setting on Your Clothes Dryer
        
         ATM                      Helen Keller
Today - World’s first ATM (automated teller machine) went into operation 44 years ago today at a Barclay’s Bank in North London. Created before plastic credit cards with magnetic stripes, the first ATM machines responded to specially-coded checks. The first ATM in the United States began operation two years after its British counterpart at the Chemical Bank at Rockville Center, New York. Today, there are more than 1.8 million ATMs in use throughout the globe --- from the Himalayas in Tibet to the McMurdo Station in Antarctica.

Birthday Girl – Left deaf and blind by an illness when she was 18 months old,  Helen Keller was born 131 years ago today – the daughter of an Alabama  newspaper editor and  former officer in Confederate Army. Locked in a black and soundless prison, she broke free with the help of Anne Sullivan, herself a partially blind woman when she was eight years old. By the time of her death at 88, Keller had earned global fame for her grace, courage and willingness to champion the causes of those less fortunate through her writings and personal appearances. NOTE: The site below is  strongly recommended for anyone suffering from an excess of self-centeredness and  self- pity. 
Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan – Rare Newsreel
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gv1uLfF35Uw