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It was formally repealed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
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Tour de
France Link |
Thru 7/18 |
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Family Golf Week Link National Farriers Week National Vodka Week Link National Therapeutic Recreation
Week Link Operation Safe Driver Week Link |
11-17 |
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National Ventriloquism Week Link |
14-17 |
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National Cancer Survivor Sibling
Week Link |
15-18 |
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Rabbit Week |
15-21 |
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National Sweet Corn Week |
16-17 |
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Hemp
History Week Link National
Moth Week Link |
17-23 |
Today’s Observations
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Disneyland
Day National
Bridal Sale Day National
Tatoo Day Record
Store Day Link Wrong
Way Corrigan Day |
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 JoaquÃn "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
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