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Hey Ice, thanks for the reminders.  I didn't celebrate national tequila day yesterday . . .  I don't think. 

Hard to think 17 years since "Sweetness" died.  One of the most elegant runners ever.




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Tuesday 26 July 2016

International One Voice Day



‘One Voice Day’ is a global initiative to unite all countries of the world in the reading of the Universal Peace Covenant at exactly 6 p.m. UT on July 26 each year.

The Universal Peace Covenant is a 577-word pledge and plea to bring families, countries and the world together in a peaceful co-existence despite our constantly changing world.

During this time individuals and groups in all parts of the world unite spiritually to declare their commitment to global peace.

The History Of One Voice Day

Created from October 1996 to April 1997, One Voice Day is the result of spiritual collaboration. People from all walks of life, several religious beliefs and nationalities, diverse occupations, all races, as young as seventeen and as old as seventy-five, came together with the intention of creating a timeless document that would accurately reflect humanity’s hope, challenge, and destiny.

The timeless wisdom in the 577 - word document serves as an instrument defining how to think peacefully and live peaceably in a world that is constantly changing.

Read the Covenant with people around the world.

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All or Nothing Day



The Romans understood it so well they had a saying: “Carpe Diem” or seize the day.

All Or Nothing Day takes that spirit and urges people to break through their barriers, ignore the fears that hold them back, and make that big commitment to a better life.

Whether it’s applying for a job, trying an extreme sport, or just saying ‘sorry’ to someone, everyone has something they would love to do if only they weren’t so scared.

All Or Nothing Day is the day for the girding of loins, taking it on the chin, and confronting those fears. As it says, by breaking the deadlock you may end up with all or nothing, but at least the barrier is broken.

You succeed or fail, but are no longer paralysed by indecision. Seize the day; the rest of your life won’t wait forever.



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National Aunt and Uncle Day



Aunt and Uncle Day is, as the name suggests, a day to celebrate a special set of relatives – your Aunts and Uncles.

The amount of aunts and uncles you have will vary from family to family. However, they often play a crucial role throughout your life; taking you to fun places, babysitting you when your parents are out, buying you birthday and Christmas presents and giving you important advice and support when you need it most.

After all, there are some things we just don’t feel comfortable talking to our parents about. So if you love your aunts and uncles, why not call them, spend the day with them, or send them a card or a gift? This is your day to show them how much you appreciate all of the effort they have put in, and all of the fun and laughter they have provided over the years.

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Today's Celebrity Birthdays




Sandra Bullock - 52



Mick Jagger - 73



Kate Beckinsale - 43



Kevin Spacey - 57



Joe Jackson - 88



Vivian Vance - (1909-1979)



James Best - (1926-2015)



Dorothy Hamill - 60

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Wednesday 27 July 2016

Walk On Stilts Day





If you’ve ever been to the circus or a parade, you have without a doubt seen someone walking along high above the crowd on a pair of stilts.

To the common man, stilts are the mainstay of theatrical performers, clowns, jugglers, and that odd looking fellow from the Liberal Arts College in their annual parade. What most people don’t know is that stilts have a long and august history in many cultures, for reasons varying from ceremonial to purely practical.

Walk on Stilts Day is the perfect time to learn about this surprisingly useful tools, and maybe try out a pair for yourself!

History of the Stilt

A Stilt is described as a ‘pillar, post, or pole employed to assist a person or structure in standing above the ground’.

While most of us, as mentioned previously, have only seen them employed for the purposes of entertainment, they have also been used in many industries, from shepherding to construction.

In some cases stilts are actually employed in the construction of a building as part of the permanent structure. After all, if you find yourself living in a flood plain, upon the beach, or some other area where the ground is less than reliable, what better way to protect yourself than raising yourself above it all?

The process of employing stilts for mobility, however, has been around since as far back as the 6th Century BC. In the Landes region of France, shepherds would use them to watch their flocks from an elevated position, while those who lived in town often used them to traverse the sodden earth in their normal activities.

While they fell out of use for such practical uses for many years, recently there has been a resurgence in those industries where there is a need to work at a height further above ground than the worker can reach, and consistently enough where moving a ladder is at best inconvenient.

The most common of these is the drywall industry, so commonly used is it, in fact, that a special design, and a name to match, has been put together for them.

In Germany they are called Handwerkerstelzen. Or Drywall stilts.

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Scotch Whisky Day



For countless people around the world, nothing says relaxation after a long hard week like a glass of good whisky. And although drinking in the middle of the week is likely not a good habit to get into, you could probably make an exception just this once, on Scotch Whisky Day, and take the time to appreciate this beloved alcoholic beverage.

So are you ready to celebrate? We thought so!

The History Scotch Whisky Day

The Babylonians of Mesopotamia were likely the first people to distill alcohol as 2nd millennium BC. At the time it is likely that various perfumes and aromatics were most often distilled.

The earliest records of the distillation of alcohol for the purpose of drinking date back to 13th century Italy, where harder alcohols were distilled from wine.

Soon, the practice of distillation use spread through medieval monasteries and was used largely for medicinal purposes, such as the treatment of smallpox and other illnesses.

Distillation spread to today’s Great Britain in the 15th century, and the first evidence of whisky production in Scotland comes from an entry in the Exchequer Rolls for 1494 where malt is sent “To Friar John Cor, by order of the king, to make aquavitae”, enough to make about 500 bottles.

Whisky production later moved out of a monastic setting and into personal homes and farms when King Henry VIII of England dissolved all the monasteries in his country due to his feud with the Pope, causing the monks to find a way to earn a living for themselves.

However, the distillation process in those days was much more basic than it is today, and the whisky itself was no allowed to age, meaning it must have tasted much more raw than it does today.

Scotch Whisky Day was created to celebrate this alcoholic beverage in all of its glory and remind people that Ballantine’s is not as good as it gets!

To celebrate today I might try walking on stilts after having a couple of glasses of good scotch whiskey.

If you don't hear from me in the next few days, I will be recuperating in the hospital after breaking something, I'm sure.

Just kidding... . (I don't have any stilts)

Hey willie I will join you on drinking the scotch whiskey part...but

.....I too, do not want to break something ...I just have to figure out about scotch as I usually drink other types and not familiar hmmmmm

July 27 Birthdays


Triple H - 47 (Hunter Hearst Helmsley)



Bill Engvall - 59



Alex Rodriguez - 41


This Day in Rock History

2010: Growing Up Twisted, the reality television show starring Twisted Sister singer Dee Snider premiered on the A/E Network.

2007: Kiss performed for the first time without singer/guitarist Paul Stanley at a concert in San Jacinto, CA. Stanley went through a bout of tachycardia and was taken to a hospital after their sound check. The group performed as a three piece.

2001: Lynyrd Skynyrd bassist Leon Wilkeson died in his sleep of natural causes in a Ponte Verda Beach, Florida hotel room. He was 49 years old.

1995: Bob Dylan joined The Rolling Stones onstage in Montpelier, France for a rendition of “Like a Rolling Stone”. Dylan was the support act for the Stones and performed one of his shortest sets ever with just nine songs and no encore.

1994: Bob Seger began jury duty in Detroit as the foreman in a criminal trial against Louis C. Rossman for bank fraud. Rossman would be found guilty.

1980: Journey headlined the Day on the Green festival at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum in Oakland. The bill also included Cheap Trick, Black Sabbath and Molly Hatchet.

1979: Alice Cooper blamed disco fans for a fire that did $200,000 in damages to his Indian art store in Scottsdale, AZ.

1976: After being ordered to leave the U.S. more than three years ago, John Lennon finally received his green card and was granted permanent residency.

1976: Bruce Springsteen filed a lawsuit against former manager Mike Appel for fraud and breach of contract. Appel filed a countersuit and Springsteen’s recording the follow-up to Born to Run was tied up as a result of the case dragging on for over a year before they reached an out of court settlement.

Thursday 28 July 2016

National Chili Dog Day



Chili dog is the generic name for a hot dog served in a bun and topped with some sort of meat sauce, such as chili con carne. Often other toppings are also added, such as cheese, onions, and mustard.

The style has multiple regional variations in the United States, many calling for specific and unique sauce ingredients, types of hot dogs, or types of buns and referred to regionally under region-specific names.



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Milk Chocolate Day



How is milk chocolate different from other chocolates? It’s a mix of cocoa solids and either dry or condensed milk.

While dark chocolate is traditionally used as a baking ingredient, this lighter version is used to make chocolate candy bars, hot chocolate, and many other delicious desserts.

Did you know that chocolate actually has mood-enhancing benefits? That’s right— chocolate can make you happy! This is due to the fact that it contains a stimulant called theobromine and a compound called anandamide. Now that’s a reason to celebrate!

The History of Milk Chocolate Day

Daniel Peter, the inventor of milk chocolate, was born in the village of Moudon, located in the Canton of Vaud, in beautiful, mountainous Switzerland in 1836. Peter attended school and graduated there.

Later on in life, Daniel Peter had formed a strong friendship with his neighbor, Henry Nestle, who had settled in Vevey, Switzerland, about 1843.

Nestle had developed a process to make baby food in which he used what was then called a “milky flour.”

It was at this point in his life that Daniel Peter asked himself the question, “Why not try to make a chocolate containing milk?”

This idea stayed with the young Daniel Peter to the point of becoming an obsession with him. He further realized that in order to stay in the chocolate market, already principally controlled by Caliller, Suchard, Kohler, and others, he must produce a new product that would become pleasing and desired by the consumer.

It should be noted by all that since the early 20th century, the countries of Europe have been producing milk chocolate of varying qualities. It should also be understood that the development of the process by Daniel Peter was created in the community of Vevey, with the Canton of Vaud, in Switzerland, and further pointed out that the first chocolate process, although not milk chocolate, was also created in Vevey, Switzerland, by Francois Louis Cailler, at the age of twenty-three, upon his return to that community from France and Italy in 1819.

Our research has found that Milk Chocolate Day was started by the Confectioner’s Association.

Okay Ice, I am in and got an early start yesterday evening eating some chocolate, good stuff the Ghirardelli .

Always of interest what today is.

Friday 29 July 2016

System Administrator Appreciation Day



System Administrator Appreciation Day is an international celebration of sysadmins across the globe, an official recognition of geekdom and of the time and effort these device-doctors and tech-therapists sacrifice as they work their magic at unsocial hours.

Typical of his trade, Ted Kekatos altruistically claimed the last Friday in July as the day that his global techie team should be recognized for the irreplaceable, printer-proficient, gadget-genius, digital-dexterous, software-savvy, computer crackerjacks and widget whizes that they are.

In appreciation of their workplace contributions, system administrators are to be spoiled rotten on Sysadmin Day, or SAD, as they like to call it.

The long-established custom requires that all system administrators be showered with gadgets, that they have first dibs on the office coffee and that their co-workers do their bidding on this most solemn day.

No sysadmin should lift a finger on System Administrator Appreciation Day, unless it’s for the purpose of pointing to the co-workers where to stick their cables and which buttons they should press.

THANKS ADMIN!!



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International Tiger Day



The tiger is the largest of the world’s big cats and this magnificent creature, with its distinctive orange and black stripes and beautifully marked face, has a day that is dedicated to it.

This was first celebrated in 2010 and was founded at an international summit that had been called in response to the shocking news that 97% of all wild tigers had disappeared in the last century, with only around 3,000 left alive.

Tigers are on the brink of extinction and International World Tiger Day aims to bring attention to this fact and try to halt their decline.

Many factors have caused their numbers to fall, including habitat loss, climate change, hunting and poaching and Tiger Day aims to protect and expand their habitats and raise awareness of the need for conservation.

Many international organisations are involved in the day, including the WWF, the IFAW and the Smithsonian Institute.



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Lipstick Day



Seldom has so much controversy surrounded such a small tube. If anything, Lipstick Day is intended to celebrate the prolific and gloriously glossy survival of that little stick of colour that has sometimes been equated to a lethal stick of dynamite.

Whether it is seductively adding more pull to a pout, or scrawling a meaningful message on a mirror, lipstick has historically refused to be ignored.

Sarah Bernhardt created some epic scandal by applying lip rouge in public and Queen Victoria considered makeup hugely impolite and intended only to mark the most impolite of women.

Yet, Winston Churchill found lipstick to be a wonderful morale booster and refused to limit its production during WW11. It seems he shared the secret women (and some men) have known for at least 5,000 years. Lipstick adds colour to character, so flaunt your brightest and make Lipstick Day a huge, marvelously colourful event.