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Welcome to September. Our last chance to hold dear to the fading days of summer.
A time when we send the kids back to school and start to think about those projects around the house that we left to do some other day.
Hopefully we can help with one or two - or at least - provide you with a few minutes of escape. To all 4,000+ Daniels customers who read our monthly epistle - we say - thank you!
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the summer ended.
day by day, and taking its time, the summer ended.
the noises in the street began to change, diminish, voices became fewer, the music sparse.
daily, blocks and blocks of children were spirited away.
grownups retreated from the streets, into the houses…
the houses stared down a bitter landscape, seeming, not without bitterness, to have resolved to endure another year.
james baldwin
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Norman Rockwell’s image of “Rosie the Riveter,” published on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1943, is based on Michelangelo’s 1509 painting "Prophet Isaiah," from the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Michelangelo’s contemporary Giorgio Vasari had written, “Anyone who studies this figure, copied so faithfully from nature, the true mother of the art of painting, will find a beautifully composed work capable of teaching in full measure all the precepts to be followed by a good painter.”
Also, Rosie is using Mein Kampf as a footrest. Ahh, Norman! The Rockwell Museum is just up the road in Stockbridge. Give it a visit. https://rockwellmuseum.org
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The shortest street in York, England, is called Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate.
The name is first recorded in 1505 as Whit-nour-what-nour-gate, and appears later as Whitney Whatney Gate. It appears to mean “neither-one-thing-nor-the-other-street.”
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OK, so I feel chastened.
I fooled more than 50 of our beloved quiz participants with a tricky question about France’s border. It’s not Belgium or Spain. That would have been easy. No! It’s…Brazil (because of France’s French Guiana border with Suriname) – as 11 of you correctly guessed.
I hang my head in shame.
To make it up to all of you – I give you this staggeringly easy one. I’m actually embarrassed at how easy this one is.
But, we’re just nice guys at Daniels and we want everyone to have a chance to win an Amazon gift card. So, naturally you know WHO this is (or depicts). Tell us here – what was his very specific phrase repeated during the film? See? Easy!
Last month’s winners were Michael T. who did guess Brazil and Carl B. who recognized New York Knick great Walt “Clyde” Frazier. Again, mei culpa on the France thing.
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"A seventeenth-century Flemish scientist by the name of Van Helmont... planted a willow sapling in a container that held 200 pounds of soil and, for five years, gave it nothing but water.
At the end of that time, the tree was found to weigh 169 pounds, and the soil 199 pounds, 14 ounces - from just two ounces of soil had come 169 pounds of tree."
---Michael Pollan, Second Nature: a Gardener's Education.
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There was a young fellow of Trinity
Who found √∞
The number of digits
Gave him the fidgets
So he dropped math and took up divinity.
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Richard Rumbold (1622–1685) was an English Parlimentarian, soldier and political radical, exiled for his role in the 1683 Rye House Plot and later executed for taking part in the 1685 Argyll’s Rising.
Rumbold made a defiant declaration on the scaffold:
“This is a deluded generation, veiled in ignorance, that though popery and slavery be riding in upon them, do not perceive it;
though I am sure that there was no man born marked by God above another; for none comes into this world with a saddle on his back, neither any booted and spurred to ride him.
Thomas Jefferson once borrowed from Rumbold's speech:
"...All eyes are opened or opening to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few, booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately by the grace of God.
All this is not to be confused with Rumpole of the Bailey. Watch one episode and fall in love.
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School's Started.
Kids Need Cake.
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For the cake:
- 1/2 cup plain yogurt or Greek yogurt
- 1 cup granulated sugar
- 3 large eggs
- 1 1/2 cups all purpose flour
- 2 teaspoons baking flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- grated lemon zest from 1 medium size lemon
- 1/2 cup sunflower, grape seed or canola oil
For the glaze:
- 1/2 cup fresh lemon juice
- 3/4 cup powdered sugar
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Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350˚F (175˚C). Spray an 8-inch round cake pan with baking spray, rub inside surface of pan with a paper towel to cover evenly with the spray. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper and spray parchment paper lightly. Set aside.
- In a large bowl, combine the yogurt, sugar, and eggs – blend well.
- Combine flour, baking powder, salt and zest.
- Add the oil and stir well. Don’t worry, at first it will seem to separate, but keep stirring till smooth.
- Pour the batter into prepared pan.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes or until the cake feels springy to the touch and a toothpick inserted into the center comes out clean (every oven is different, so check with the toothpick test rather than the time). Don't overbake.
- Cool cake on a wire rack for 10 minutes; turn it out of the pan onto the rack.
- Combine the lemon juice and powdered sugar in a small bowl and stir until smooth. With a pastry brush, gently pat the glaze all over the cake. Just keep going over the cake till the glaze is gone. Some of it will drip off, but most of it will soak in. Allow cake to cool completely. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired and serve.
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Look, Marge,
Penny-Pinching Scientists!
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In 1971, physicist Joseph C. Hafele and astronomer Richard E. Keating bought airline tickets for a party of four to circle the world twice on commercial airliners.
Each party consisted of Hafele, Keating, and two passengers named “Mr. Clock.” The guests were cesium-beam atomic clocks.
The researchers chaperoned the timepieces once eastward around the world and once westward. Then they compared the traveling clocks with one that had remained at the United States Naval Observatory.
The results were published in Science the following year. The clocks had been found to disagree, demonstrating the effects of kinematic and gravitational time dilation.
The total cost of the effort was $8,000. It’s been called one of the most inexpensive tests ever conducted of Einstein’s relativity.
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Don’t you hate those little shocks you get during the winter, when you walk across a rug, wearing a nice comfy wool sweater or snappy wool hat and you touch the electric switch and – zap!
See, it’s dry in the house. Too dry. You need to add a dollop (and a half) of moisture and the best way to do that is to call Daniels.
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Oh and it will keep up a level of moisture in the air that will, shockingly, eliminate those…ya know…shocks!
Call us today and ask about an Aprilaire System.
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September Art - This Time in Fashion Design | |
Here’s some of the work of Australian designer Paul Vasileff of the Paolo Sebastian fashion label. In a word: Wow. Saw his work at the Art Gallery of South Australia. Magnificent. | |
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It’s September. It’s still hot. So …turn on your heat.
If after 3-5 minutes your baseboards are warm and your furnace or boiler is working fine.
Cool.
Turn it off and don’t worry about it til the first night it gets cold.
But…if you hear something you don’t like, smell something fishy – or simply don’t get heat – now is the time to call.
Before you really need us. We’ll be there to fix whatever the problem is and you’ll be set to go when the chill sets in.
Again, just a reminder.
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There are billions and billions of Daniels customers waiting to play this quiz. Tell us here who this smiling gentleman is and you may be the winner of a coveted Amazon gift card!
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To deprive the meanest insect of life, without a good reason for so doing, is certainly criminal.
By such an act, a man destroys, what neither he, nor all the united powers of the world can ever repair; and it may be attended with worse consequences than he can imagine.
If superior beings had the same power over us, that we have over brutes, what misery might not one of them occasion to a whole nation, by destroying such an insect as a minister of state may appear to be in his eyes?
If a child dismembers a bee, or an ant, he may, for any thing we know to the contrary, distress a whole common-wealth.
— James Granger, An Apology for the Brute Creation, or Abuse of Animals Censured, 1772
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We love books.
So when we found "The Madman’s Library" by Edward Brooke-Hitching, well we felt a particular kinship. Here we found out that the Incas not only hadn’t developed a need for wheeled vehicles, that “death-passports” were added to the burial of loved ones to aid in their navigation of the afterlife, and all about books that were written on toilet paper.
If you are a bit obsessive about books, this is the book…for you.
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