<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Macaroni and Cheese Day'. . You can get a free small Mac 'n
Cheese (with regular entree) at participating Noodles and Company.
- From Wikipedia (Macaroni and cheese):
'Macaroni and cheese—also called mac and cheese in American English
macaroni pie in Caribbean English and macaroni cheese in the United Kingdom
and Canada—is a dish of English origin, consisting of cooked macaroni pasta
and a cheese sauce, most commonly cheddar. It can also incorporate other
ingredients, such as bread crumbs, meat and vegetables.
Traditional macaroni and cheese is a casserole baked in the oven however,
it may be prepared in a sauce pan on top of the stove or using a packaged
mix. In the United States it is considered a comfort food.
Pasta and cheese casseroles have been recorded as early as the 14th century
in the Italian cookbook Liber de Coquina, one of the oldest medieval
cookbooks, which featured a dish of parmesan and pasta. A cheese and pasta
casserole known as makerouns was recorded in the famous medieval English
cookbook, the Forme of Cury, which was also written in the 14th century. It
was made with fresh, hand-cut pasta which was sandwiched between a mixture
of melted butter and cheese. The recipe given (in Middle English) was Take
and make a thynne foyle of dowh. and kerve it on peces, and cast hem on
boillyng water and seeþ it wele. take chese and grate it and butter cast
bynethen and above as losyns. and serue forth. (Make a thin foil of dough
and cut it in pieces. Put them in boiling in water and seethe them well.
Grate cheese and add it with butter beneath and above as with losyns , and
serve.)
The American president Thomas Jefferson encountered macaroni both in Paris
and in northern Italy. He drew a sketch of the pasta and wrote detailed
notes on the extrusion process. In 1793, he commissioned American
ambassador to Paris William Short to purchase a machine for making it.
Evidently, the machine was not suitable, as Jefferson later imported both
macaroni and Parmesan cheese for his use at Monticello. In 1802, Jefferson
served a pie called macaroni at a state dinner. The menu of the dinner was
reported by Reverend Mannasseh Cutler, who apparently was not fond of the
cheesy macaroni dish. Nevertheless, since that time, baked macaroni and
cheese has remained popular in the United States.
A recipe called macaroni and cheese appeared in the 1824 cookbook The
Virginia Housewife written by Mary Randolph. Randolph's recipe had three
ingredients: macaroni, cheese, and butter, layered together and baked in a
hot oven. The cookbook was the most influential cookbook of the 19th
century, according to culinary historian Karen Hess. Similar recipes for
macaroni and cheese occur in the 1852 Hand-book of Useful Arts, and the
1861 Godey's Lady's Book. By the mid-1880s, cookbooks as far west as Kansas
included recipes for macaroni and cheese casseroles. Factory production of
the main ingredients made the dish affordable, and recipes made it
accessible, but not notably popular. As it became accessible to a broader
section of society, macaroni and cheese lost its upper class appeal.
In the United States, July 14 has been branded as National Macaroni and
Cheese Day'.
[The Hankster says] Love it. Do not, I repeat, do not be skimpy with the cheese.
* 'National Hot Dog Day . . There are many hot dog days, by country, city
and organization. This on corresponds with th National Hot Dog and Sausage
Council's Capitol Hill event. (Since 1991). This year on Wed. July 14.
Note: The July 4 2016 Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest was won by Joey
Chestnut, at 70 hotdogs.
- From Wikipedia (Hot Dog days):
'Hot Dog Days are informal events that are celebrated in communities
throughout the hotdog-eating world, including the USA, Canada, Great
Britain and Australia. Their origin is obscure. As the name suggests the
festivals revolve around eating hot dogs, but usually there are many other
activities such as wiener dog races, root beer chugging contests and face
painting. Often the proceeds from a hot dog day are given to charity.
Industry groups, such as National Hot Dog and Sausage Council in the USA,
which designates July as National Hot Dog Month and National Hot Dog Day
which in 2016 falls on July 14, though varies year to year based on when
the North American Meat Institute hosts its annual Hot Dog Lunch on Capitol
Hill, encourage, sponsor, and support the events. The council also gives
advice on hot-dog eating etiquette, which aren't considered strict, as most
Hot Dog Day style events do not adhere to them. One of the most notable is
the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in Brooklyn, New York'.
[The Hankster says] I'm going to enter that contest some day. I say some day, since until then, I can keep practicing. If I am on top, there will be no need to keep up practice. I wonder if there is a Mac 'n Cheese contest?
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Tape Measure Day'.
It's patent in 1868 by Alvin J Fellows.
[The Hankster says] Read more about this lengthy subject in the history section.
* 'Pandemonium Day'.
Keep it within the law, but do something wild on this day. On this day, the word organization is not in your dictionary.
[The Hankster says] Pandemonium is defined as: wild and noisy disorder or confusion; uproar. That defines every day for me.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'World Blood Donor Day'. - From Wikipedia: 'Every year on 14 June,
countries around the world celebrate World Blood Donor Day (WBDD). The
event, established in 2004, serves to raise awareness of the need for safe
blood and blood products, and to thank blood donors for their voluntary,
life-saving gifts of blood.
World Blood Donor Day is one of eight official global public health
campaigns marked by the World Health Organization (WHO), along with World
Health Day, World Tuberculosis Day, World Immunization Week, World Malaria
Day, World No Tobacco Day, World Hepatitis Day, and World AIDS Day'.
o Animal and Pet:
* 'Shark Awareness Day'.
<> Historical events on July 14
* 'In 1789, The Storming of the Bastille in Paris occurs. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Storming of the Bastille (French: Prise de la
Bastille ) occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The
medieval fortress and prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented
royal authority in the centre of Paris. The prison contained just seven
inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of the abuse of the
monarchy: its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
In France, Le quatorze juillet (14 July) is a public holiday, usually
called Bastille Day in English'.
* 'In 1854, Opening of first major US world's fair, Exhibition of Industry
of All Nations in NYC. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations was a World's
Fair held in 1853 in what is now Bryant Park in New York City, in the wake
of the highly successful 1851 Great Exhibition in London. It aimed to
showcase the new industrial achievements of the world and also to
demonstrate the nationalistic pride of a relatively young nation and all
that she stood for. Jacob Aaron Westervelt, at that time Mayor of New York,
was the President of the exhibition-committee. The general superintendent
was Admiral Du Pont.
Opening on July 14, 1853 with newly sworn President Franklin Pierce in
attendance, the fair was seen by over 1.1 million visitors before it closed
on November 14, 1854. The fair featured its own glass and iron exhibition
building – the New York Crystal Palace – directly inspired by London's. The
Palace was destroyed by fire on October 5, 1858.
Today, the expo is also remembered as the place where Elisha Otis
demonstrated an elevator equipped with a device called a safety, which
would kick in if the hoisting rope broke. This addressed a major public
concern regarding the safety of elevators. Three years later, Otis
installed the first passenger elevator in the United States in a New York
City store'.
* 'In 1868, Alvin J Fellows patents tape measure. .
- From Wikipedia: 'A tape measure or
measuring tape is a flexible ruler. It consists of a ribbon of cloth,
plastic, fibre glass, or metal strip with linear-measurement markings. It
is a common measuring tool. Its design allows for a measure of great length
to be easily carried in pocket or toolkit and permits one to measure around
curves or corners. Today it is ubiquitous, even appearing in miniature form
as a keychain fob, or novelty item. Surveyors use tape measures in lengths
of over 100 m (300+ ft). Various types of measuring tapes and construction
materials are explained at this reference
The first record of a people using a measuring device was by the Romans
using marked strips of leather, but this was more like a regular ruler than
a tape measure. On July 14, 1868, a patent was filed by one Alvin J.
Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut. Fellows' rule, although crude and
flimsy, was the first attempt to make a spring tape measure. On 3 January
1922, Hiram A. Farrand received the patent he filed in 1919 for his spring
tape measure. Sometime between 1922 and December 1926, Farrand experimented
with the help of The Brown Company in Berlin, New Hampshire. It is there
Hiram and William Wentworth Brown began mass-producing the tape measure.
Their product was later sold to Stanley Works'.
* 'In 1946, Dr. Benjamin Spock’s 'The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child
Care' was first published. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care written by
Benjamin Spock, is a manual on infant and child care first published in
1946. The book, along with Dr. Spock, attained fame almost instantly,
selling 500,000 copies in its first six months. By Spock’s death in 1998,
over 50 million copies of the book had been sold, making it the
best-selling book of the twentieth century in America, aside from the
Bible. As of 2011, the book had been translated into 39 languages.
Spock and his manual helped revolutionize child-rearing methods for the
post-World War II generation. Mothers heavily relied on Spock’s advice and
appreciated his friendly, reassuring tone. Spock emphasizes in his book
that, above all, parents should have confidence in their abilities and
trust their instincts. The famous first line of the book reads, “Trust
yourself. You know more than you think you do'.
* 'In 1951, The first color telecast of a sporting event, a horse race,
airs on CBS. .
- From Wikipedia: 'By 1949, the networks stretched from New York to the
Mississippi River, and by 1951 to the West Coast. Commercial color
television broadcasts began on CBS in 1951 with a field-sequential color
system that was suspended four months later for technical and economic
reasons. The television industry's National Television System Committee
(NTSC) developed a color television system based on RCA technology that was
compatible with existing black and white receivers, and commercial color
broadcasts reappeared in 1953.
The Molly Pitcher Stakes is an American Thoroughbred horse race raced
annually during the last week of August at Monmouth Park in Oceanport, New
Jersey. The race is open to fillies and mares, age three and up, willing to
race one and one-sixteenth miles on the dirt. This Grade III event
currently carries a purse of $150,000.
The Molly Pitcher was recently reduced from a Grade II to a Grade III event
and had its purse lowered.
In 1951, the Molly Pitcher was the first race in the United States ever to
be televised in color'.
* 'In 1956, Fats Domino hit #1 on the R and B chart and #3 on the pop chart
with his song, I'm In Love Again. .
- From Wikipedia: 'I'm in Love Again is a 1956 single by Fats Domino. The
song was written by Domino and his longtime collaborator, Dave Bartholomew.
The single was Domino's third number one on the R and B Best Sellers list,
where it stayed at the top for seven weeks. I'm in Love Again also peaked
at number three for two weeks on the pop chart. I'm in Love Again was a
double-sided hit for Domino as the B-side of the pop standard, My Blue
Heaven
Bill Haley and His Comets covered this song on their 1960 covers album Bill
Haley and His Comets.
* 'In 1963, The movie 'Beach Party' was premiered in the U.S. It opened
across the U.S. on August 7. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Beach party movies were an American subgenre of feature
films produced and released between 1963 and 1968, created by American
International Pictures (AIP), beginning with their surprise hit, Beach
Party in July 1963. With this film, AIP is credited with creating the
genre. In addition to the AIP films, several contributions to the genre
were produced and released by major and independent studios alike.
According to various sources, the genre comprises over 30 films, with the
lower-budget AIP films being the most profitable.
Generally comedies, the core elements of the AIP films consisted of a group
of teenage and/or college-age characters as heroes non-parental adult
characters as villains and/or comic relief simple, silly storylines that
avoided any sober social consciousness teen trends and interests (such as
dancing, surfing, drag racing, custom cars, etc.) simple romantic arcs,
original songs (presented in both the “Musical” genre style and as ”source
music”) teen-oriented musical acts (frequently performing as themselves)
and a tongue-in-cheek attitude toward the target audience.
The earliest films by AIP, as well as those by other studios, focused on
surfing and beach culture. Although the genre is termed beach party film,
several subsequent films that appeared later in the genre, while keeping
most of the core elements mentioned above, do not actually include
surfing—or even scenes on a beach'.
* 'In 1965, The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of
another planet. .
- From Wikipedia: 'Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars
1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary
exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct closeup scientific
observations of Mars and to transmit these observations to Earth. Launched
on November 28, 1964, Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the
planet Mars, returning the first pictures of the Martian surface. It
captured the first images of another planet ever returned from deep space
their depiction of a cratered, seemingly dead world largely changed the
view of the scientific community on life on Mars. Other mission objectives
were to perform field and particle measurements in interplanetary space in
the vicinity of Mars and to provide experience in and knowledge of the
engineering capabilities for interplanetary flights of long duration. On
December 21, 1967 communications with Mariner 4 were terminated.
The spacecraft flew by Mars on July 14 and July 15, 1965. Planetary science
mode was turned on at 15:41:49 UT on July 14. The camera sequence started
at 00:18:36 UT on July 15 (7:18:49 p.m. EST on July 14) and 21 pictures
using alternate red and green filters, plus 21 lines of a 22nd picture were
taken. The images covered a discontinuous swath of Mars starting near 40°
N, 170° E, down to about 35° S, 200° E, and then across to the terminator
at 50° S, 255° E, representing about 1% of the planet's surface. The
closest approach was 9,846 km from the Martian surface at 01:00:57 UT July
15, 1965 (8:00:57 p.m. EST July 14). The images taken during the flyby were
stored in the on-board tape recorder. At 02:19:11 UT Mariner 4 passed
behind Mars as seen from Earth and the radio signal ceased. The signal was
reacquired at 03:13:04 UT when the spacecraft reappeared. Cruise mode was
then re-established. Transmission of the taped images to Earth began about
8.5 hours after signal reacquisition and continued until August 3. All
images were transmitted twice to ensure no data was missing or corrupt.
The spacecraft performed all programmed activities successfully and
returned useful data from launch until 22:05:07 UT on October 1, 1965, when
the long distance to Earth (309.2 million km) and the imprecise antenna
orientation led to a temporary loss of communication with the spacecraft
until 1967'.
* 'In 1969, The United States $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 bills are
withdrawn from circulation. .
- From Wikipedia: 'The base currency of the United States is the U.S.
dollar. It is printed in bills in seven denominations: $1, $2, $5, $10,
$20, $50, and $100. Previously there have also been five larger
denominations: $500, $1,000, $5,000, and $10,000 were printed for general
use (in large transactions), and a $100,000 bill for certain internal
transaction
Although they are still technically legal tender in the United States,
high-denomination bills were last printed on December 27, 1945, and
officially discontinued on July 14, 1969, by the Federal Reserve System,
supposedly due to 'lack of use'. The $5,000 and $10,000 effectively
disappeared well before then'.
* 'In 1992, 386BSD is released by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz beginning
the Open Source Operating System Revolution. Linus Torvalds releases his
Linux soon afterwards. .
- From Wikipedia: '386BSD, sometimes called Jolix, was a free Unix-like
operating system based on BSD, first released in 1992. It ran on
PC-compatible computer systems based on the Intel 80386 microprocessor.
386BSD innovations include role-based security, ring buffers, self-ordered
configuration and modular kernel design. The BSDs for PC descend from it.
386BSD was written mainly by Berkeley alumni Lynne Jolitz and William
Jolitz. William Jolitz had considerable experience with prior BSD releases
while at the University of California at Berkeley (2.8 and 2.9BSD) and both
contributed code developed at Symmetric Computer Systems during the 1980s,
to Berkeley. Work on porting 4.3BSD-Reno and later 4.3BSD Net/2 to the
Intel 80386 was done for the University of California by William Jolitz at
Berkeley. 4.3BSD Net/2 was an incomplete non-operational release, with
portions withheld by the University of California as encumbered (i.e.
subject to an AT and T UNIX source code license). The 386BSD releases made
to the public beginning in 1992 were based on portions of the 4.3BSD Net/2
release coupled with additional code (see Missing Pieces I and II, Dr.
Dobb's Journal, May–June 1992) written by William and Lynne Jolitz to make
a complete operational release.
The port began in 1989 and the first, incomplete traces of the port can be
found in 4.3BSD Net/2 of 1991. It was first released in March 1992 (version
0.0) and in a much more usable version on July 14, 1992 (version 0.1). The
porting process with code was extensively documented in an 18-part series
written by Lynne Jolitz and William Jolitz in Dr. Dobbs Journal beginning
in January 1991'.
* 'In 1995,The MP3 file format is created. .
- From Wikipedia: 'MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred
to as MP3, is an audio coding format for digital audio which uses a form of
lossy data compression. It is a common audio format for consumer audio
streaming or storage, as well as a de facto standard of digital audio
compression for the transfer and playback of music on most digital audio
players.
The use of lossy compression is designed to greatly reduce the amount of
data required to represent the audio recording and still sound like a
faithful reproduction of the original uncompressed audio for most
listeners. An MP3 file that is created using the setting of 128 kbit/s will
result in a file that is about 1/11 the size of a CD-quality file. An MP3
file can also be constructed at higher or lower bit rates, with higher or
lower resulting quality.
The compression works by reducing the accuracy of certain parts of a sound
that are considered to be beyond the auditory resolution ability of most
people. This method is commonly referred to as perceptual coding. It uses
psychoacoustic models to discard or reduce precision of components less
audible to human hearing, and then records the remaining information in an
efficient manner.
MP3 was designed by the Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) as part of its
MPEG-1 standard and later extended in the MPEG-2 standard. The first
subgroup for audio was formed by several teams of engineers at Fraunhofer
IIS, University of Hanover, AT and T-Bell Labs, Thomson-Brandt, CCETT, and
others. MPEG-1 Audio (MPEG-1 Part 3), which included MPEG-1 Audio Layer I,
II and III was approved as a committee draft of ISO/IEC standard in 1991,
finalised in 1992 and published in 1993 (ISO/IEC 11172-3:1993). Backwards
compatible MPEG-2 Audio (MPEG-2 Part 3) with additional bit rates and
sample rates was published in 1995 (ISO/IEC 13818-3:1995).
On 7 July 1994, the Fraunhofer Society released the first software MP3
encoder called l3enc. The filename extension .mp3 was chosen by the
Fraunhofer team on 14 July 1995 (previously, the files had been named
.bit). With the first real-time software MP3 player WinPlay3 (released 9
September 1995) many people were able to encode and play back MP3 files on
their PCs. Because of the relatively small hard drives back in that time (~
500–1000 MB) lossy compression was essential to store non-instrument based
(see tracker and MIDI) music for playback on computer'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in July
Food
National Blueberries Month
National Grilling Month
National Honey Month
National Ice Cream Month
National Horseradish Month
National Hot Dog Month
Wheat Month
Health
Alopecia Month for Women
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
Eye Injury Prevention Month
Hemochromatosis Screening Awareness Month
International Group B Strep Awareness Month
International Women with Alopecia Month
International Zine Month
Juvenille Arthritis Awareness Month
National Black Family Month
National Cleft and Craniofacial Awareness and Prevention Month
National Cord Blood Awareness Month
National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
Social Wellness Month
Animal / Pets
National 'Doghouse Repairs' Month
Other
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education and Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month
Family Golf Month
Independent Retailer Month
National Child-Centered Divorce Month
National Make A Difference to Children Month
National Parks and Recreation Month
National Vacation Rental Month
Smart Irrigation Month
Tour de France Month
Women's Motorcycle Month
July is:
July origin (from Wikipedia): Named by the Roman Senate in honor of Julius Caesar.
"is the seventh month of the year (between June
and August) in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of seven months
with the length of 31 days. It was named by the Roman Senate in honor of
the Roman general, Julius Caesar, it being the month of his birth. Prior
to that, it was called Quintilis. It is, on average, the warmest month in
most of the Northern hemisphere (where it is the second month of summer)
and the coldest month in much of the Southern hemisphere (where it
is the second month of winter). The second half of the year commences in
July. In the Southern hemisphere, July is the seasonal equivalent of
January in the Northern hemisphere."
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