Jul 7

 

 

 

Jul  7, 2021 Week: 28 Day: 188

Ave. Sky Cover: 45%\Visibility: 10 miles

Local Temp:  89°\ 53°

Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 10mph

EXTREME risk of fire

Active fire: 84mi. \ Lightning: 146mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

Body language is the means by which humans (and some other animals) convey information through conscious or subconscious body movements or facial expressions. This includes emotions, intentions and social hierarchy like submission and dominance.

Research suggests that assuming a "power pose" makes people feel more powerful and actually changes testosterone and cortisol levels in the body. Practicing "power poses" before an important meeting for 2-3 minutes will help you feel more powerful.

 

True Things

 

Wrong Place, Wrong Time

A Volvo manufacturing plant in western Virginia got a surprise visitor on June 4: A young bear had somehow climbed up into the rafters of the building, 20 feet high and far from stairs or a ladder then become stuck. The state's Department of Wildlife Resources was called in, Fox News reported, and workers immobilized the bear with a chemical dart, then removed it from the ceiling using a forklift. "Given the location of the bear, odds were low that it would soon safely leave on its own," said DWR officials. Workers were directed to stay in the business's cafeteria during the extraction. The bear was safely taken to a "suitable site for release." [Fox News, 6/10/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Frenemy

The first use of the word word ‘Frenemy” was in the 1953 article titled Howz about calling the Russians our Frienemies? by gossip columnist Walter Winchell in the Nevada State Journal. In social and business circles anyone who can both help you, or hinder your success can be a Frenemy.

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link	Thru 7/18
Running of The Bulls (Spain)	6-14
National Unassisted Homebirth Week	1-7
Freedom Week Be Nice To New Jersey Week Nude Recreation Weekend Punxsutawney Groundhog Days	4-10
Creative Maladjustment Week Link	7-14

 

Today’s Observations

 

Chocolate Day Link Father Daughter Take a Walk Together Day Global Forgiveness Day, also called "World" or "National" National Dive Bar Day National Macaroni Day National Strawberry Sundae Day Tell the Truth Day Victims of The Dallas, Texas Attack Day  Link World Chocolate Day World Forgiveness Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Cloudy and hoping for more rain. Our forest needs all it can get. The rain has allowed the Forest Service to reopen Coconino Forest with restrictions. That is good news.

I saw an interview with Jimmy and Roslyn Carter. It was their first in quite a while. They were talking about their 75 year marriage. That alone is amazing. Jimmy said they get their news from their preferred source: PBS NewsHour…and are not fans of Fox, CNN, or MSNBC. I enjoy NewsHour but would add CNBC’s Shepard Smith.

Tonight is the first game between the Suns and Hawks for the NBA National Championship. I’ll be watching.

Mark your calendars: The My Pillow Guy says that Trump will be reinstated as President on August 13, 2021. For the superstitious…that is on a Friday. He didn’t give a date for the end of the world…yet.

 

2 Ne.w. Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

herring

1. Wheel 2. Wheel  3. Wheel

 

 

Historical Events

 

1456 – A retrial verdict acquitted Joan of Arc of heresy, authorized by Pope Callixtus III, 25 years after her death.

1520 – Spanish conquistadores defeated a larger Aztec army at the Battle of Otumba.

1898 – US President William McKinley signed the Newlands Resolution annexing Hawaii as a territory of the United States.

1907 – Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. staged his first Ziegfeld Follies on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.

1928 – Sliced bread was sold for the first time, by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1930 – The construction of the Hoover Dam began. It was completed/dedicated on September 30, 1935

1946 – Mother Francesca S. Cabrini becomes the first American to be canonized by the Catholic Church.

1946 – Howard Hughes crashed his XF-11 reconnaissance aircraft prototype in a Beverly Hills neighborhood.

1947 – The Roswell Incident was reported in newspapers, about a reported crash of an alien spaceship near Roswell in New Mexico.

1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his recording for Sun Records, That’s All Right.

1962 – #1 Hit July 7, 1962 – July 13, 1962: David Rose – The Stripper

1981 – US President Ronald Reagan (R) appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to

2007 – The first Live Earth benefit concert was held in 11 locations around the world.

2006 – Psych premiered on the USA Network

2020 India surpasses Russia to become the world's third-worst affected country, daily COVID-19 cases exceeding 20,000 and total cases over 700,000

 

Birthdays Today

 

93 – [Carl Hilding]’Doc’ Severinsen, American trumpet player, conductor

81 – Ringo Starr, English singer-songwriter, Beatles’ drummer, and actor

@75 – Satchel Paige, American baseball player, coach (d. 1982; heart attack)

72 – Shelley Duvall, American actress

@71 – Otto Frederick Rohwedder, American engineer, invented sliced bread (d. 1960)

@63 – Joel Siegel, American journalist and critic (d. 2007; metastatic cancer)

55 – Jim Gaffigan, American comedian

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Red Herring                                                             Third Wheel

 

 

Jul 6

 

 

 

Jul  6, 2021 Week: 28 Day: 187

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

Local Temp:  86°\ 56°

Wind: 4mph\ Gusts: 6mph

High risk of fire

Active fire: 123mi. \ Lightning: 129mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

 

 

Random Tidbits

 

·        After working out, it takes 5 hours for your body temperature to return to normal.

·        Children have more taste buds than adults.

·        The eye makes movements 50 times every second.

·        An ant’s sense of smell is stronger than a dog’s.

 

True Things

 

Relationship Goals

Henry Williams and Tuhonsty Marie Smith of Milwaukee have been in a relationship for eight years, but things haven't gone so well lately. When Williams returned home from work on June 2, Smith wouldn't talk to him and was walking in circles. Williams had told her a couple of weeks before that he was thinking of getting a divorce, Yahoo! News reported. Later that evening, he went to bed and awoke with the back of his head on fire, he told police. Williams grabbed his infant daughter and ran to his parents' adjacent home, where they called 911. When police arrived, Smith admitted to setting Williams' head on fire; she told them that that morning, she had "started eating chicken wings and thought Henry poisoned them." Smith was charged with arson of a building, domestic abuse and other crimes and was ordered to undergo a competency evaluation. [Yahoo! News, 6/10/2021]

 

Idioms Origins

 

Fetch

Gretchen, played by Lacey Chabert in Mean Girls tried to make FETCH a happening word, ‘fetch’ meant cool or awesome, but lead mean girl Regina George, would not let it happen. Fetch is probably the best movie word that almost made it into the mainstream lexicon

 

Weekly Observations

 

Tour de France Link	Thru 7/18
Running of The Bulls (Spain)	6-14
National Unassisted Homebirth Week	1-7
Freedom Week Be Nice To New Jersey Week Nude Recreation Weekend Punxsutawney Groundhog Days	4-10

 

 

Today’s Observations

 

National Fried Chicken Day  Link Take Your Webmaster to Lunch Day Umbrella Cover Day World Kissing Day…International Kissing Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

There was a nice monsoon rain yesterday…three different times. One was a hard rain for about 45 minutes. Our high desert mountain town has gotten almost ½ in. of moisture in the past few days.

I learned a lot watching 60 minutes last night. First, our compute-based society was not, and still isn’t prepared for cyberattacks from within our country or from outside our country. There will be continued attacks, more ransomware, more problems are ahead. The expert says the only way to guarantee you are protected is to shut down the internet, destroy all computers and servers, and start over. Even then the protection will only last until the hackers figure out the new systems. Scary.

I didn’t realize that Ken Burns had made over 40 documentaries about American life. I have watched about 10, so I have many more to watch. He said the hardest part is reviewing hundreds of thousands of clips and photos and then narrowing it down to the very best. For ones I’ve seen, he did an outstanding job. Thank You PBS for showing them.

I also watched the PBS July 4^th in DC. I enjoyed it. This morning I was reading that there is a controversy. It is America in 2021. Vanessa Williams sang ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ which is also known as the Black National Anthem. The controversy is that there is only one National Anthem and her song simply divided America on our Independence Day. I agree that there is only one National Anthem and I know that in 1776 most rich landowners had slaves, took land, and killed Native Americans to expand land, and while they said ‘All men are created equal’ they did not include women, Indigenous people, or slaves. We are still working for the Ideal America, and that includes teaching our children true history about the treatment of ‘others’ in this country.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Rephrase each item below as a pair of rhyming words

 

A building with open sides in Rio (each word has 3 syllables)

An established expert on sisterhood (each word has 4 syllables)

A refusal to accept the restoration of vigor (each word has 5 syllables)

 

Historical Events

 

1189 – Richard I “the Lionheart” acceded to the English throne.

1348 – Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull (rule) protecting the Jews accused of having caused the Black Death.

1483 – Richard III was crowned King of England. Although he died in 1485, his body was lost until 2013. Because of that, many people consider him the greatest ‘hide and seek’ champion of all time.

1535 – Sir (& Catholic Saint) Thomas More was executed for treason against King Henry VIII.

1854 – The first convention of the United States Republican Party was held in Jackson, Michigan.

1865 – The first issue of The Nation magazine was published.

1885 – Louis Pasteur successfully tested his vaccine against rabies on Joseph Meister, a boy who was bitten by a rabid dog.

1919 – The British dirigible R34 landed in New York, completing the first crossing of the Atlantic Ocean by an airship.

1933 – The first Major League Baseball All-Star Game was played in Chicago’s Comiskey Park. The American League defeated the National League 4 – 2.

1942 – Anne Frank and her family went into hiding in the “Secret Annex” above her father’s office in an Amsterdam warehouse.

1947 – The AK-47 assault rifle went into production in the Soviet Union.

1957 – John Lennon and Paul McCartney met for the first time, as teenagers at Woolton Fete, three years before forming the Beatles.

1971 White House Plumbers unit formed to plug news leaks

1983 Supreme Court rules retirement plans can't pay women less

2016 Chilcot Report, UK's Iraqi War Inquiry released; concludes Tony Blair overstated case for war and was unpreparaed

2020 Zoonotic diseases, which jump from animals to humans, are increasing due to unsustainable farming and climate change according to new report by the UN

 

Birthdays Today

 

@97 – Marc Chagall, Belarusian-French painter and poet (d. 1985)

@94 – Nancy Reagan, actress, 42nd First Lady (d. 2016)

@82 – Merv Griffin, American actor, talk show host, producer, created Wheel of Fortune and Jeopardy! (d. 2007)

@86 – Della Reese, American actress and singer (d. 2017)

86 – Dali Lama, religious leader

@83 – Ned Beatty, American actor (d. 2021)

76 – Burt Ward, American actor

75 – George W. Bush, 43rd President

75 – Sylvester Stallone, American actor, director, and screenwriter

@56 – Bill Haley, American singer-songwriter,guitarist (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1981; alcohol complications)

@47 – Frida Kahlo, Mexican painter (died in 1954)

@45 – John Paul Jones, Scottish-American captain (d. 1792; interstitial nephritis)

46 – 50 Cent, American rapper,

42 – Kevin Hart, American comedian, actor

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Brazilian pavilion               sorority authority             rejuvenation repudiation