Jul 9

 

 

 

Jul  9, 2021 Week: 28 Day: 190

Ave. Sky Cover: 40%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  88°\ 57°

Wind: 3mph\ Gusts: 8mph

EXTREME risk of fire

Active fire: 23mi. \ Lightning: 7mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

  

Random Tidbits

 

Fingertips planted and spread apart on a surface are a significant territorial display of confidence and authority.

Hand-steepling may be the most powerful high-confidence hand gesture. It involves touching the spread fingertips of both hands in a gesture similar to praying hands, but the fingers are not interlocked, and the palms may not be touching. In the U.S., women tend to steeple low (at the waist), while men tend to steeple at chest level.

 

True Things

 

Fine Points of the Law

In December 2016, Cletus Snay hit a patch of black ice while driving in Bellevue, Ohio, and slammed into Matthew Burr's mailbox. Doesn't seem all that dramatic, but postal service guidelines specify that mailbox poles be able to break away, which Burr's clearly did not do. Burr had installed an 8-inch metal pole, buried 3 feet in the ground and fortified with rocks and dry cement poured on top, News5Cleveland reported. This immoveable fixture caused Snay's truck to roll and left him a quadriplegic. Attorney Kathleen St. John argued on June 16 to the Ohio Supreme Court that a property owner "is not justified in inflicting, without warning, bodily harm upon the person of a trespasser," but Burr's attorney, Doug Leak, calls the USPS recommendations "just guidelines" and said Burr was justified in reinforcing his mailbox after years of accidents and vandalism. The court is expected to rule soon. [News5Cleveland, 6/16/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Geronimo!

People yell Geronimo! when jumping from things because of a US Army private, Private Aubrey Eberhardt, who, in 1940, while testing parachutes, said he wasn’t scared. Parachutes were a fairly new and unreliable apparatus at the time. He yelled the name when he jumped to prove this. The rest of the platoon did not want to be shown up so they yelled it too, and it quickly caught on. The original Geronimo (June 16, 1829 – February 17, 1909) was an Apache chief and medicine man.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link

Thru 7/18

Running of The Bulls (Spain)

6-14

Freedom Week

Be Nice To New Jersey Week

Nude Recreation Weekend

Punxsutawney Groundhog Days

 

4-10

Creative Maladjustment Week Link

7-14 

Sports Cliché Week: Link  

9-13 

 

Today’s Observations

 

Collector Car Appreciation Day Link
Fashion Day

International Town Crier Day

National Don’t Put All Your Eggs in One Omelet Day

National Motorcycle Day 

National No Bra Day Link  Taos Pueblo

National Sugar Cookie Day

Taos Pueblo Pow Wow Cancelled
Wayne the Chicken Day Link  

 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Reminder: Flagstaff traffic is horrific during the summer construction/tourist season. Mary and I had lunch today. The place is about 10 minutes from my place. Today it took 30 minutes to get there. I-40 was 15mph, everyone got off at the same exit I used, stop lights were long.

Sad to hear that the condo collapse is now a recovery site. They waited a long time in rescue mode.

Happy to watch the tickertape parade in NYC for the health care workers. Well deserved and their smiles were fantastic.

During every National Finals the mayors or governors always have a bet. This year, in the unlucky event that Phoenix loses, the Wisconsin governor will be getting a case of beer from one of Flagstaff’s many small breweries. Good PR for Flagstaff.

After a tough decision, no fans will be able to see the Olympics in the stadiums. They are only going to allow a few executives to watch in the stadium. The games should be about the athletes. Covid vaccines are working. I wish the athletes the very best. I hope Japan and its citizen’s can recover from the enormous cost of the many new stadiums. Many local vendors and hotels and taxi drivers were expecting a big pay off that has now gone to zero.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

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Historical Events

 

1540 – King Henry VIII of England annulled the marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves.

1595 – Johannes Kepler published Mysterium cosmographicum (Mystery of the Cosmos)

1776 – George Washington ordered the Declaration of Independence to be read out loud to members of the Continental Army in New York, New York, for the first time.

1815 – The first developed natural gas well in the U.S. was discovered, at Burning Springs well near Charleston, West Virginia.

1868 – The 14th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, insuring African Americans (ex-slaves born in the United States) full citizenship and all persons in the United States due process of law.

1877 – The inaugural Wimbledon Tennis Championships began at the All England Club.

1922 – Future film Tarzan star Johnny Weissmuller swam the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking the world swimming record and the ‘minute barrier’.

1933 – Construction began on the Oakland Bay Bridge, California. It was opened on May 29, 1937.

1962 – Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup Cans exhibition opened at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles.

1979 – Launched in 1977, Voyager 2, passed by Jupiter.

1981 – Donkey Kong, a video game created by Nintendo, was released, featuring the debut of Mario.

2008 American businessman T. Boone Pickens announces his "Pickens Plan", an energy policy that moves away from imported oil

2014 Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu instructs his defence forces to "take their gloves off" against Hamas and to take any means necessary to "restore peace" to Israeli citizens

2020 US government issues directive that more than 1 million international students will be stripped of their visas if their courses entirely online

 

Birthdays Today

 

94 – Ed Ames, American singer and actor

@88 – Donald Rumsfeld, American politician (d. 2021)

@81 – Brian Dennehy, American actor (d. 2020)

79 – Richard Roundtree, American actor

@78 – Lee Hazlewood, singer-songwriter, producer (d. 2007; renal cancer)

76 – Dean Koontz, American author, screenwriter

74 – O.J. Simpson, American football player, felon, actor

69 – John Tesh, American pianist, composer, television host

@67 – Vince Edwards, American actor, singer, director (d. 1996; pancreatic cancer)

66 – Lindsey Graham, American politician

66 – Jimmy Smits, American actor

65 – Tom Hanks, American actor

57 – Courtney Love, American singer-songwriter, actress

@48 – Elias Howe, invented the sewing machine (d. 1867; gout)

45 – Fred Savage, American actor, director, and producer

30 – Mitchel Musso, American actor,singer

 

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