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This Just In...
July is hot.
Period.
Wicked hot. Usually.
Of course, by the time this runs it will probably be the start of a new ice-age, but we're figuring that it is going to be hot.
So we're going to be cool.
All cool.
All the time.
This episode will be dedicated to you - the too-cool for school denizens of iceville.
Everything is going to be chill.
Everything is going to be refrigerated.
Everything is going to be as cold as the girl who broke your heart in 7
th grade.
It's July. Be cool.
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Cool Dudes
Yes, It's
Salvatore Dali (just working that mustache) and surrealist photographer
Man Ray. Look 'em up!
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Cool Comfort (Back in the Day)
Licking the ice to keep cool. And no one got sick.
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It's a 100+ year old Bonsai plant. C'mon, anything that gorgeous over 100 years old has to be pretty cool.
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Listen...It's Really Cool.
Center of the Universe
The so-called Center of the Universe is in downtown Tulsa, OK.
It's marked by a small concrete circle in the middle of a larger circle of bricks. It's not much to look at, but looking isn't really the point.
The "Center of the Universe" is a little-known mysterious acoustic phenomenon. If you stand in the middle of the circle and make a noise, the sound is echoed back several times louder than it was made. Even more strange, no one standing outside of the circle can hear a thing. It's your own private amplified echo chamber.
As the legend goes, a foghorn could be going off in the center of the circle and those on the outside wouldn't hear it. This may be an exaggeration, but your voice does sound extremely distorted when heard from outside the circle. It's an incredible effect. Still, though many people have studied the cause of the odd anomaly there's no clear consensus
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Cool Deal... For Heat!
(It's that time where we hawk a bit of product. If you need a new boiler or furnace - now would be a great time to take advantage of this cool Daniels Deal!)
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It's a single, gold broach (you like your grandmother (if she was wickedly wealthy in 1943) might have worn).
Created in 1942 by Harry Bertoia, an Italian-born sound artist and furniture designer, who must have dabbled in fashion jewelry, he later worked with furniture designers Hans and Florence Knoll where he created the famous diamond chair.
That's Harry Bertoia with the Diamond Chair he was famous for creating.
Pretty cool, huh?
LAST MONTH'S WINNERS
We are DELIGHTED...to say that we whooped up on you all last month!
The photo of the train was NOT the Gillette Castle Train. It was the Dairjeeling Himalayan Railway - the very same one that Mark Twain and his family rode on back in the early 1900s. SO many of you (48!!!) missed that one. (Yes, that was a bit of a gloat and surprisingly immature.) 34 of you did get it though and the winners for this month were Paul H who identified NYC Mayor Jimmy Walker as the marble player and Monique H recognized the train and it's location. Better luck this month.
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This is the easiest quiz in out history. The boat in the background tells you everything you need to know.
Tell us who this
mustachioed fellow is - AND - what he was doing - and you might win a luxurious all expense paid trip to Topeka, KS...or more likely, a $25 Amazon Gift card.
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Can't you feel the cool water and the fresh breeze. Can't you just smell the freedom? Introducing the work of Ilya Repin.
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This is Quelle Liberte by Ilya Repin from 1903.
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Ilya Repin was a Russian realist painter. He was the most renowned Russian artist of the 19th century, when his position in the world of art was comparable to that of Leo Tolstoy in literature. He played a major role in bringing Russian art into the mainstream of European culture. His major works include Barge Haulers on the Volga (1873), Religious Procession in Kursk Province (1883) and Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks (1880-91), but this is one of our favorites. Below...a self-portrait.
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Cool Summer Books
We received a number of great suggestions for summer reading from our Daniels Energy customers. And we do thank you for sending in your favorites. Here are just a few samples to choose from this summer. Enjoy.
Dark Invasion: 1915: Germany's Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America by Howard Blum.
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Camino Island -
hey we had to include a John Grisham novel - it's the summer!
A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University's Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars.
Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town. He makes his real money, though...
as a dealer in rare books. But, he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts! Hmmmm...
A Man Called Ove, by Fredrik Backman
(Trust us, we read it
and seen it!)
And you will love Ove!
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis is a memoir by J. D. Vance about the Appalachian values of his upbringing and their relation to the social problems of his hometown.
From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America's white working class
Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis-that of white working-class
Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside.
Chasing the Last Laugh, by Richard Zacks --
Bestselling author of Island of Vice and The Pirate Hunter, a rich and lively account of how Mark Twain's late-life adventures abroad helped him recover from financial disaster and family tragedy-and revived his world-class sense of humor.
Mark Twain, the highest-paid writer in America in 1894, was also one of the nation's worst investors.
"There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate," he wrote. "When he can't afford it and when he can." The publishing company Twain owned was failing; his investment in a typesetting device was bleeding red ink. After losing hundreds of thousands of dollars back when a beer cost a nickel, he found himself neck-deep in debt. His heiress wife, Livy, took the setback hard. "I have a perfect horror and heart-sickness over it," she wrote. "I cannot get away from the feeling that business failure means disgrace."
But, Twain vowed to Livy he would pay back every penny. And so, just when the fifty-nine-year-old, bushy-browed icon imagined that he would be settling into literary lionhood, telling jokes at gilded dinners, he forced himself to mount the "platform" again, embarking on a round-the-world stand-up comedy tour. (Extra: See the pix of the Dairjeeling Express)
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Essex Serpent is a marvelous novel about the workings of life, love and belief, about science and religion, secrets, mysteries, and the complicated and unexpected shifts of the human heart-and it contains some of the most beautiful evocations of place and landscape I've ever read.
It is so good, its pages seem lit from within. As soon as I'd finished it I started reading it again."-Helen MacDonald, author of H is for Hawk
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Cool Cathedral
But, where?
Tell us here
and you may win a $25 Amazon Gift card. So you can shop at Whole Foods. For, tops, milk and bread.
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Leave 'em Laughing
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A Playground in Donestik, Ukraine.
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Dave, John & Bob
The Daniels Family says, "thank-you for reading, This Just In."
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