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Ahhhh....October.
Is there a better month on the calendar? The first fresh crisp air of the season. An explosion of color and a Saturday football game or hike along the shore or your favorite walking trail. Energy returns. Oh, and since you're so energetic, clean those gutters.
Early October is also when we click on our furnaces. It is a reminder to us of how many of you depend on the Daniels family to help heat your homes. We take that responsibility very seriously and while we know there are bound to be times this winter when the weather will make that particularly difficult - you have our promise to be there when you need us.
Hope you will enjoy your 5-minute escape with this month's issue of
"This Just In..."
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and
California... as the world
In 1927, Paramount Studios had this funny map, detailing which parts of California could substitute for which global locations. It was too expensive to fly around the world to film their movies. So they made California into the world.
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Readers Survey
We want
"This just in..." to be a joy and surprise for you each month. We also want to be relevant and timely. So we ask for a bit of help. One question, no need for identification.
It will help.
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Can 1.6 billion people be wrong? Do NOT get the tune in your head.
Forewarned is forearmed.
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This Design Deserves a Hand!
The
Golden Bridge
is a 150-metre (490 ft) long pedestrian bridge in the
Bà Nà Hills
resort, near
Da Nang
,
Vietnam
.
It is designed to connect the
able car
station with the gardens (avoiding a steep incline)
and to provide a scenic overlook and tourist attraction. The bridge loops nearly back around to itself, and has two giant stone hands designed to appear to support the structure.
The client for the project was the Sun Group. The bridge was designed by TA Landscape Architecture based in Ho Chi Minh City. The company's founder, Vu Viet Anh, was the principal designer. The bridge opened in June 2018.
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It can happen to the best of us. Mark Twain invested all his money in a non-working linotype machine. Doh!!
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Another chance for that elusive $25 Visa gift card.
Tell us where we are, and please be specific. If we select your correct entry we'll send along that gift. Last month
Harry C - solved the
Weighty problem of the gold coins,
Mari L recognized the
Golden Rock Pagoda in Burma and
Ed W - and 61 others recognized Snape/Hans Gruber aka:
Alan Rickman. Thanks to all who played. Good luck this month.
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The Bouba/Kiki Effect
In a 1946 essay, Warner Brothers animator Chuck Jones presented two shapes:
These represented two nonsense words,
tackety
and
goloomb
. Which is which? Most people decide immediately that the shape on the left is
tackety
- even though that word has no meaning.
Similarly, one of these shapes is a bassoon, and one is a harp:
Here again, the correspondence seems obvious. "These are static examples of what are mostly static sounds," Jones wrote. "The art of animation brings them to life, brings them fluidity and power; endows them, in short, with the qualities of music. The field of graphic symbols is a great but highly unexplored field."
"It will, I believe, prove an important one to the musician, and to any audience that is interested in satisfying the visual appetite, side by side with the auditory appetite."
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The Saddle Ridge Hoard
is the name given to identify
a treasure trove of 1,427 gold coins
unearthed in the Gold Country of the Sierra Nevada, California in 2013. The face value of the coins totaled nearly $30,000, but was assessed to be worth $10 million. In total, the hoard contains $27,460 in twenty-dollar coins, $500 in ten-dollar coins, and $20 in five-dollar coins, all dating from 1847 to 1894. The collection is
the largest known discovery of buried gold coins that has ever been recovered in the US
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The owners of the property discovered the trove while they were walking their dog on their property
. Although they had reportedly hiked the trail numerous times previously, it was not until they
spotted a rust-covered metal can poking out of the ground
that they chose to explore further. It was so heavy that they believed that the can likely held lead paint. On their walk back to their house the lid of the can cracked open, revealing the edge of a single gold coin.
They returned to the site with some hand tools to see if they could find anything else. They found another can and although it was partially decomposed due to rust, it held several more coins. They continued to return to the site to look for more coins, eventually using a metal detector to find 8 cans filled with gold coins.
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We were driving down Rt 81 in Killingworth. Beautiful drive. Passed our favorite road:
Roast Meat Hill Road.
Got us laughing. And thinking. And contest creating. So...nominate your weirdest, funniest, strangest street name (preferably one you live on or near in CT). For example: Idiot's Perch Lane or Stunod Blvd.
For the history behind the name - go here:
We'll pick one winner - you get a $25 account credit. AND....we'll let you all pick a favorite from all the entries - next month.
So...what street makes you smile?
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This is one of Venice's infamous
bocche di leone
(literally, "lion's mouths"), post boxes designed for receiving anonymous denunciations. ("Señor Clemente is a thief and cur...- sorta thing.)
A slip containing the accusation would have been inserted into the mouth, after which it would drop into a secure box on the other side of the wall.
The text reads,
"Secret denunciations against anyone who conceals favors and services, or those who collude to hide the true revenue from them."
The mouths were represented in the form of a
lion
's muzzle, to remember the Li
on of St. Mark
, symbol of the Venetian State.
The denunciations, even if guaranteed by secrecy, could not strictly be anonymous, under penalty of destruction, unless they referred to cases of particular and special gravity, in which case the magistrates were obliged to carry out a careful screening before proceeding.
These complaints, which ranged on the wider field of crimes, were in particular essential for the functioning of the special courts in charge of state security: the State Inquisitors and, above all, the fearful Council of Ten.
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Just who do you think this is?
Tell us here and we may send you one of those fabulous Visa gift cards everyone is talking about. Hint: yes, he was Alsatian.
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Rogerio Timoteo is a Portuguese sculptor who works in large and small formats.
ROGERIO TIMOTEO TIMOTEO
Sculptor
Born in 1967, in An Ãsos, Sintra, Portugal. He began drawing and sculpture with Master Anjos Teixeira, studying in his studio for five years. In 1991, he took a course in new marble techniques in Vila Visosa. He has given solo exhibitions since 1993, and participated in more than 100 collective exhibitions in Portugal and abroad.
Over the last years has been invited to display his work abroad in Spain, Luxembourg, Germany, and more recently in New York. Created 26 sculptures designed for public spaces, including 8 of large dimensions.
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Traded for Himself. What?
Catcher Harry Chiti pulled a sort of ontological sleight in 1962. On April 25, while playing for the Cleveland Indians, he was acquired by the expansion New York Mets for a player to be named later.
Seven weeks later, on June 15, he was sent back to the Indians
as
the "player to be named later" - he'd been traded for himself. Three other players have since achieved the same feat: Dickie Noles, Brad Gulden, and John McDonald.
Thought since this was October and baseball was still in full flower this might be of interest.
Could be wrong.
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Just Felt The Need To Post This
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Dave, John & Bob
The Daniels Family says,
"thank-you for reading, This Just In."
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