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[IceWizard]

07 Aug 2017


Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day



Have you ever battled vainly to open a tightly sealed bottle of tablets – only to end up with a sprained wrist and an even worse headache? Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day aims to lift the lid on this kind of problem.

So, if you’re being forced to use knives or scissors to prise a toy or tool out of an impenetrable plastic case, don’t keep your feelings under wraps. Let the manufacturers know that their way of packing items just isn’t your bag.

As well as wasting customers’ time, unnecessary over-packaging also wastes precious resources. What’s more, it leaves us all with extra rubbish to dispose of. An ideal way to mark the occasion is to avoid unnecessary packaging as much as possible. This is a day to bypass burger cartons, say no to supermarket plastic bags and do some thinking outside the box!




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National Lighthouse Day



A light that shines in the darkness to protect and alert. Sounds like something one would say about that friend or mentor whom helps us in the hardest of times, but alas, this is not that reference. This is a reference to the silent, but bright, guardians of our coastlines and ships, the majestic lighthouse.

History of Lighthouse Day

The lighthouse has been a staple of culture in the world since we built boats to sail the seas. Protection from fog, reefs, rocks and other hazards of the coastline have been signaled by these monoliths of light, even before the advent of electricity. Surprisingly, large fires were lit in the top of the early lighthouses, so ship captains knew not to sail to close to them in order to avoid dangers to their ships. Some even used early forms of light refraction to make the light spread farther out to see – mirrors were used in some cases, but in many it was actually metal polished to a shine that was used as mirrors were not as easily come by as they are today.

Electricity and the light bulb paved the way for current lighthouses – the rotating beam of light that is done with some creative positioning of mirrors, glass and a motor to spin a curved mirror in a circle around the light bulb. This effect channels the light outwards in a beam, rotating around and around to catch the eye, and help the light pierce the fog.

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August 7 Birthdays




David Duchovny - 57




Bruce Dickinson - 59




Carl (Alfalfa) Switzer - (1927 - 1959) (31)




Tobin (JigSaw) Bell - 75




Charlize Theron - 42








August 7th

2008: The Police performed what they said would be their final concert ever at Madison Square Garden, which was a benefit concert for public television.

2006: Gene Simmons Family Jewels premiered on the A&E Network. The program follows the life of Simmons, his longtime partner Shannon Tweed & their two children.

1983: Black Sabbath released their eleventh studio album Born Again which was their first and only album with Deep Purple singer Ian Gillan singing for them as Gillan rejoined Deep Purple the following year.

1982: Fleetwood Mac reached the top of the Billboard 200 Album Chart for the third time with Mirage which spent five weeks on top of the chart.

1981: Motorhead drummer Phil “Philty Animal” Taylor was fined $90 & found guilty of marijuana possession.

1976: Aerosmith peaked at number twenty-one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart with “Last Child” their third top 40 hit.

1974: J. Geils Band singer Peter Wolf married Faye Dunaway in Beverly Hills, CA. The couple would divorce in 1979.

1971: Frank Zappa & the Mothers performed at the Pauley Pavilion on the campus of UCLA. This concert was later released the following March as a live album titled Just Another Band from L.A.

1970: The Goose Lake International Music Festival began in Jackson, MI. Approximately 200,000 were in attendance & the three day festival included Rod Stewart & The Faces, Jethro Tull, Chicago, Bob Seger, Ten Years After, The Stooges, Mountain, The James Gang, the MC5, & The Flying Burrito Brothers. Alice Cooper & Joe Cocker were originally on the bill, but didn’t appear.



Birthdays:

Andy Fraser - Bassist for Free born in 1952

Bruce Dickinson - Singer for Iron Maiden born in 1958