Jul 20

 

 

Jul  20, 2021 Week: 30 Day: 201

Ave. Sky Cover: 35%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  80°\ 57° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 10mph

Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 70mi. \ Lightning: 24mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

 



 

Random Tidbits

 

A number of researchers argue that while the human body is capable of digesting meat, our bodies are actually designed to be herbivores. For example, the human molars are similar to those of an herbivore, flat and blunt, which make them good for grinding, not gnashing and tearing.

Several studies show that a plant-based diet increases the body's metabolism, causing the body to burn calories up to 16 percent faster than the body would on a meat-based diet for at least the first 3 hours after meals.

Some research suggests that if a man avoids red meats, it improves the sex appeal of his body odor.

 

True Things

 

Least Competent Criminals

-- An unnamed man in Waterboro, Maine, was arrested on June 27 on an outstanding warrant for a theft from a Walmart, the Associated Press reported. When the bail commissioner arrived, the man tried to use two counterfeit $100 bills to post his bail. He was returned to jail and charged with forgery. Reportedly he was able to meet bail with legitimate bills later that day and is scheduled to be in court on Aug. 4. [Associated Press, 6/29/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Third Degree

There are 4 likely first uses of the term:

1. Severe burns on a victim (1900s)

2. Richard H. Sylvester, the Chief of Police for Washington, DC. He divided police procedures into the arrest as the first degree, transportation to jail as the second degree, and interrogation as the third degree (the early 1900s), and probably coined the term.

3. The third degree of Freemasonry and difficulties to advance to that level (1900).

 

Weekly Observations

 

Rabbit Week

15-21

Hemp History Week Link

National Moth Week Link

17-23  

Captive Nations Week
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week Link 
National Independent Retailers Week Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week Link  

18-24  

Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

18-25

International Lace Week  Link 

19-23 

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Fortune Cookie Day

Moon Day

National Ice Cream Soda Day

National Ice Cream Sundae Day
National Lollipop Day Link

National Moon Walk day

Nap Day

Space Exploration Day Link
World Chess Day  Link
World Jump Day Link

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

New week brought a nice sunrise and the outlook is for more monsoon later this afternoon. This is so needed. Hopefully all the growth will not dry up later and increase the already high fire danger.

I am a tad frustrated with my Al-Med, my CPAP supplier. The new cloth covers for my mask are great.  But cost about $25/month. Blue Cross says they can be part of my supplies, for which I have no co-pay. Al-Med says they have no ‘number’ to put in the computer to charge them to my insurance. I emailed the company that has the covers and am awaiting their reply. Such a hassle.

60 Minutes last night was good. I had seen one of the reports. The segment on the autism spectrum was amazing. A few companies have discovered how great certain spectrum employees are. There just needs to be more companies attempting to find slots that work for these hard working, highly knowledgeable people.

Guantanamo prison has 39 prisoners. Only 11 have been charged. Many of the remaining have been marked for release, if another country will take them and guarantee they will be watched. Biden just made a deal with Monaco to accept one of those marked for release. He has been OK-ed for release since 2016. He has been at Guantanamo since 2001 without being charged. This is disgraceful.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

 

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Historical Events

 

1903 – The Ford Motor Company shipped its first car.

1938 – The United States Department of Justice filed suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regard to the studio system.

1940 – California opened its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.

1950 – The Arthur Murray Party TV Show premiered. Originally on ABC, it eventually moved through DuMont, CBS, and NBC.

1960 – The Polaris missile was successfully launched from a submarine, the USS George Washington, for the first time.

1969 – In a live transmission from the Moon was viewed by 720 million people around the world, with the landing of Apollo 11, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the surface of the Moon, live on international television.

1976 – The American Viking 1 spacecraft successfully landed on Mars.

1977 – The Central Intelligence Agency released documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind-control experiments.

1982 – The Provisional IRA detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent’s Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and killing seven horses.

1997 – The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrated its 200th birthday by setting sail again for the first time in 116 years.

2005 – The Civil Marriage Act legalized same-sex marriage in Canada.

2012 – Movie theater in Aurora theater shooting, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.

2015 – The United States and Cuba resumed full diplomatic relations after five decades.

2017 Elon Musk tweets he has "verbal government approval" to build 29 minute Hyperloop between New York and Washington, D.C.

2020 United Kingdom suspends extradition treaty with Hong Kong in wake of new Chinese security laws for the territory

2020 Scientists find evidence of volcanoes on Venus, showing the planet is not as dormant as previously thought (Nature Geoscience)

 

Birthdays Today

 

@87 – Cormac McCarthy, American novelist (d. 1933)

@82 – Diana Rigg, English actress (d. 2020)

76 – Kim Carnes, American singer-songwriter

74 – Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter, guitarist

@61 – Gregor Mendel, Austro-German monk, geneticist, botanist (d. 1884, nephritis)

@52 – Chris Cornell, American singer-songwriter (died in 2017)

50 – Sandra Oh, Canadian actress

48 – Omar Epps, American actor

46 – Judy Greer, American actress

@43 – Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981; drowning<?>)

33 – Julianne Hough, American dancer

@32 – Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (d. 323 BC; poisoned <?>)

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Small potatoes                                                                   Beat around the bush

 

  

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