0 Number of times it will be appropriate to drop the "What is this? A union meeting?" joke when you see people idling at the AFL-CIO Labor Day Picnic, Sept. 5 from noon to 5 p.m. at the Great Plaza at Penn's Landing. But points to those who try.

4/4 Kind of beat you'll hear at the Labor Day Jazz Festival from Sept. 3-5 at Chaddsford Winery, or at The Tony Williams Scholarship Jazz Festival, Sept. 2-5 at the Cherry Hill Hilton. Uh oh, two Labor Day jazz festivals. RN predicts a jazz-off.

52 Times the phrase "Katrina and the waves" has appeared, as of press time, in U.S. papers in the last week, as per LexisNexis.

4.8 Pennsylvania's unemployment rate as of May 2005, according to Federal Reserve Bank research. The national rate is 5.1.

12 Height, in feet, of a wall of paper stretching from Philly to L.A. that could be constructed with the amount of office paper Americans trash each year. As a former listings intern, I claim responsibility for about four of those feet, but I'm taking those just-over-a-page press release e-mails with me!

133 Number of years the Cannstatter Volksfest has been celebrated, making it the oldest German Volksfest in the U.S. Enjoy heisser zwiebelkuchen and other great German food and music from Sept. 3-5 in Cannstatter Park on 9130 Academy Rd.