TODAY: June 5


NIELS’ MORNING GREETINGS

ON: JUNE 5


New edition

TODAY’s LENGTH:
This day is here in Belgium 8 hours and 20 minutes longer than December 21. Its length is 16 hours and 18 minutes – from 05.32 to 21.50.
See more – also in English – about where you are on:  www.dagenslaengde.dk


TODAY’s NAME:
The name of this day is BONIFACIUS’ DAY. He was an English monk, who together with 50 priests tried to make the invading Friseans Christians. But he failed, and at the end they killed him in year 755 AC.



In Denmark this day is also DAD’s DAY. It was a tradition started by Louise Smart ( married Dodd ) in Spokane in the state of Washington in the US in 1910. She wanted to celebrate her own father. During World War I  this American tradition was also taken up in Europe. And in Denmark it was permanently introduced from 1935. It has over the years been placed on different dates during the year. But now it is always on June 5. In the other Scandinavian countries it is celebrated on the second Sunday in November. In the US it is on the third Sunday in June, and it’s an official holiday.   Some people have said that Dad’s Day was actually invented by the producers of cigars and whiskey. But this is not true J



Today is also the United Nations international Environment Day.



The day’s name is (almost) the same in Belgium:  SAINT BONIFACE d’ALLEMAGNE. He was born in Devon in Anglo-Saxon England in 675 and later became arch bishop of Mainz in Germany.  He was also actively involved in trying to make the Frisians Christian.  But he was together with 52 others killed by them in 754.



TODAY’s EVENT:
1967: The Six Day War between Israel and the Arab countries started.





TODAY’s QUESTION:
Endomondo – what is that? And what can it be used for?


NAME:              ENDOMONDO  - free GPS tracking of your sports activities

MAIN FACTS:   Short description


  1. ENDOMONDO is a free service, which can track your physical activities like walking, running, cycling, etc.
  2.  
  3. The name ENDOMONDO comes from Endo = endorphins ( the stuff released in your brain during sports activities )  and Mondo = world.  The world of Endorphins



  1. ENDOMONDO was invented and started by 3 Danes ( ex-McKinsey people )



  1. The web site:  www.endomondo.com 



  1. The vision of ENDOMONDO is to make it more fun being active and thereby motivate more people to do sports and other physical activities.



  1. ENDOMONDO is free. And it is very easy to use.



  1. You need a smartphone ( Android or iPhone ) with GPS service included



  1. You download the ENDOMONDO app from the App market ( free )



  1. When the app is installed and you have opened it you are ready to start !



  1. If you are walking, running or cycling you start ENDOMONDO at the beginning of your tour – and afterwards you have a real-time GPS tracking of:



·       The distance you have made

·       Your average speed, also per km  ( also with indications if you were slow or fast on each lap of 1 km )

·       The calories you have burnt

·       The exact route you have done shown on a map

          

           In other words: You get a complete training log.



  1.  Your ENDOMONDO keeps your daily activities under HISTORY, where you at any time can go back and see, what you did when. And it can also show you your daily, weekly and monthly results



  1.  If you subscribe to ENDOMONDO’s free web site ( creating your own login and password ) you will be able to see your results – past and present – on this site. And on the site you can also see in real time, if some of your ENDOMONDO friends right now are out there doing some exercise



  1.  You can also via your Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo and other services, you might use, find out which friends are also using ENDOMONDO. You can invite them also to become your ENDOMONDO friend. In this way they can follow you in real time – and you can follow them.  And you can compete with each other – wherever you are in the world.



  1.  All collected information is strictly confidential – unless you decide yourself to show your results on your Facebook or Twitter account. This can be done very easily.



 Now, just one point more:   GET STARTED ! It’s fun J  



QUESTION FOR NEXT ISSUE:
Place where the pepper grows – where does that expression come from? And what does it mean?


47 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT EUROPE:
EUROPE AT WORK     www.europe-at-work.be



TODAY’s QUOTE & FAMOUS PEOPLE :
1.  Yesterday’s quote:


I think I could get away with exhibiting a pencil box and call it art. People do not know a colour is red before they are told so.


            This was said by the Danish sculptor and painter Robert Jacobsen.
2.  Today’s quote:


It is said that politics is the second oldest profession in the world. I have learned that it has a lot in common with the oldest one.


Who among today’s personalities has said that?


3.  Famous people born on this day:


1723:  Adam Smith  ( died 1790 )

1883:  John Maynard Keynes  ( died 1946 )

1949:  Ken Follett



4.  Famous people died on this day:


1826:  Carl Maria von Weber  ( 40 years )

1963:  Henrik Kaufmann  ( 75 years )

2004:  Ronald Reagan  ( 93 years )



Niels Jørgen Thøgersen

niels4europe@gmail.com  

www.simplesite.com/kimbrer    +  EUROPE-AT-WORK   www.europe-at-work.be 

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