Jul 17

 

 

 

Jul  17, 2021 Week: 29 Day: 198

Ave. Sky Cover: 90%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  79°\ 53°

Wind: ph\ Gusts: 3mph

Low risk of fire

Active fire: 28mi. \ Lightning: 0mi.

Jul Averages: 82°\51° (9 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

 


 

Random Tidbits

 

Dogs have been with us a long time. The first dogs were self-domesticated wolves which, at least 12,000 years ago, became attracted to the first sites of permanent human habitation.

Cats, on the other hand, have lived with people for only 7,000 years.

 

True Things

 

Deja Vu

It started as a joke on April 2, 2020, but after a month of Zoom meetings during which "Jackie," a resident of Washington, D.C., wore the same Hawaiian shirt and received nary a comment from her oblivious co-workers, the prank became a social experiment with a momentum all its own. Jackie told the Daily Mail that on June 16, 2021, she celebrated her last day of work by confessing to having worn the shirt to 264 consecutive Zoom meetings during the pandemic. The reaction? "When I told my team that I had been wearing the same shirt, they didn't know what I was talking about. They hadn't noticed," she said. "The intern literally said, 'On purpose?' So, there's that." [The Huffington Post, 6/23/21]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Riot Act

The first ‘Riot Act’ was called by King George I on August 1, 1715. The long-phrase title was “An Act for preventing tumults and riotous assemblies, and for the more speedy and effectual punishing the rioters”. The earliest use of the phrase in Pop Culture, published in an American soldier’s letter, (William Bradford)  “She has just run out to read the riot act in the Nursery”, in December 1819.

We usually still use it for kids today.

It was formally repealed in the Criminal Law Act of 1967, along with the Profane Oaths Act of 1945 (for cursing) and the Blasphemy Act 1697 (for educated Christians denying The Trinity or One God).

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link

Thru 7/18

 Family Golf Week Link

National Farriers Week

National Vodka Week Link

National Therapeutic Recreation Week Link

Operation Safe Driver Week Link

 

 

11-17  

National Ventriloquism Week Link

14-17  

National Cancer Survivor Sibling Week Link  

15-18  

Rabbit Week

15-21

National Sweet Corn Week

16-17

Hemp History Week Link

National Moth Week Link

17-23  

 

Today’s Observations

 

Disneyland Day
Emoji Day

National Bridal Sale Day 
National Hot Dog Day Link
National Peach Ice Cream Day

National Tatoo Day

Record Store Day Link 
Strawberry Rhubarb Wine Day   Link
Tisha B'Av
Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day 
Woodie Wagon Day 
Women's Dive Day 
Victims of Baton Rouge, Louisianna Attack Day  Link
World Day for International Criminal Justice  
Link
World Emoji Day  Link

Wrong Way Corrigan Day
Yellow Pig Day Link

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Another day of Monsoon rain. It has been raining on and off since 10a. No complaints, the forest needs this moisture. I went out to Andy’s to water his trees but only needed to do it for about 30 minutes as they too are getting the same rain I am. So nice to have the monsoon returning after its long absence. As I was out buying necessities this morning, city crews were busy cleaning up the roadways from yesterday’s downpours.

My mom used to say “If it isn’t one thing, then it’s another”. That sure fits in much of Europe right now. They have been dealing with covid and all the deaths, the lack of tourism, and now rains are causing 100-year floods. I hope things settle down quickly for them.

One of our tour guides from South Africa just posted ‘Pray for Us’ regarding the situation in South Africa. He is talking about the demonstrations and turmoil in that country.

During the pandemic, many were getting unemployment. Most states were issuing ATM cards rather than checks or direct deposit. No state used cards with a chip. This has led to a lot of fraud. Cards stolen, cards info was copied with a pocket scanner then a new card used by the crook, and many more stories. Many people only learned this as they were standing in the grocery line and found their card had no money left. Cards without a chip are cheap to make, pocket scanners are cheap, cards with a chip are much more expensive for the bank. Now the banks and states are trying to figure out how to refund customers who can show money was stolen and ways to prevent this in the future that doesn’t cost too much.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

 

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Historical Events

 

1856 – The Great Train Wreck of 1856 in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania, injured over 100, and killed over 60 people.

1867 – Harvard School of Dental Medicine was established in Boston

1899 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital. Today, NEC has structured its organization around three principal segments: IT solutions, network solutions, and electronic devices.

1918 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family were murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

1938 – Douglas Corrigan took off from Brooklyn to fly the “wrong way” to Ireland and becomes known as “Wrong Way” Corrigan.

1955 – Disneyland was dedicated and opened by Walt Disney in Anaheim, California.

1984 – The national drinking age in the United States was changed from 18 to 21.

2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, a Boeing 777, was shot down near the border of Ukraine and Russia. All 298 people on board were killed.

2015 Scientists solve mystery of sleeping sickness in two villages in northern Kazakhstan - uranium mining had caused increase in carbon monoxide

2018 Barack Obama gives speech honoring Nelson Mandela and warning of "strongman politics" in Johannesburg, South Africa

2019 Mexican drug cartel head Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years in New York

2020 India becomes the third country to record 1 million cases of COVID-1, 56% concentrated in Maharashtra, Delhi and Tamil Nadu

 

Birthdays Today

 

@97 – Art Linkletter [Gordon Arthur Kelly], Canadian-American radio, TV host (d. 2010)

@95 – Phyllis Diller, American actress, comedian (d. 2012)

@86 – James Cagney, American actor (died in 1986)

86 – Donald Sutherland, Canadian actor

@84 – Diahann Carroll, American actress and singer (d. 2019)

@81 – Spencer Davis, Welsh singer-songwriter (d. 2020)

@77 – John Cooper, English car designer, co-founded the Cooper Car Company (d. 2000)

74 – Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall

70 – Lucie Arnaz, American actress

69 – David Hasselhoff, American actor, singer, and producer

67 – Angela Merkel, German chemist politician, 8th Chancellor of Germany

@60 – Phoebe Snow, American singer-songwriter (d. 2011; stroke)

45 – Luke Bryan, American singer-songwriter

 

Puzzles Answer

 

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