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
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Tour de
France Link |
Thru 7/18 |
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Running of The Bulls (Spain) |
6-14 |
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Freedom
Week Be Nice To New Jersey Week Nude Recreation Weekend Punxsutawney Groundhog Days |
4-10 |
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Creative Maladjustment Week Link |
7-14 |
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Sports Cliché Week: Link |
9-13 |
Today’s Observations
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Collector Car
Appreciation Day Link International Town Crier
Day National Don’t Put All Your
Eggs in One Omelet Day National No Bra Day Link Taos
Pueblo Taos Pueblo Pow Wow Cancelled |
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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