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Dog Days of Summer!
It
is amazing that summer is almost over already. However, there is plenty
more fun to be had and fall is a spectacular season in the midwest. The dog days are defined as the sultry part of the summer, supposed to occur during the period that Sirius, the Dog
Star, rises at the same time as the sun. This period is marked by lethargy, inactivity, or indolence...hmmm.
Here are a few ideas of things to do before the sand runs through the hourglass this summer:
1) Go to a baseball game (little league or pro - it matters not)
2) Eat a hot dog
3) Roast some marshmallows and make a s'more
4) Play horseshoes or bocce ball
5) Go to an outdoor concert
6) Eat on the patio at Piccolo Sogno for a great Chicago outdoor dining experience
7) Visit an outdoor festival
8) Take a boat tour of the city
9) Take a nap in a hammock
10) Have an Arnold Palmer
This
month is also host to the Chicago Air and Water Show as well as the Hot
Dog Fest. Most people are busy seeking out the last few bits of
traditional summer before the dreaded school year begins (sorry kids).
There is no way to avoid the feeling of being let down this month so
let's all try to stay positive and enjoy each moment...Last month's winner of the "guess the location" game
was Jennifer Winikates with the correct guess of Cape Town, South Africa. Thanks for playing. More about
the location below...
And
now for a new picture above- Can you
guess where it is by looking through the keyhole? "This city is home to
giants, sharks, an old prison, a famous bridge and a very twisty road.
You can have a drink at the top of the Mark too." Can you guess the
location?
Correct answers will be given recognition but half the fun is trying to figure
it out. The correct answer will be revealed in the subsequent
issue. Good luck and have fun.
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Cape Town, South Africa - Keyhole Answer
"This city is a stark contrast to the rest of its country let alone
it's continent. Therein lies the attraction and you don't even have to
wear a cape to explore it. At the very southern tip of its
continent, the level of sophistication is astounding in this otherwise
WILD place."
If you look at the picture above you can clearly see the stadium that was built for the 2010 FIFA World Cup (remember the vuvuzelas?).
During the planning stages, it was known as the Green Point Stadium and
home to the Ajax Cape Town and Cape Town City Soccer Teams. It has a
capacity of 55,000 and hosted the South African Sevens rugby
tournament. Now, surprisingly enough, the stadium is simply called Cape
Town Stadium (how original).
A city as vibrant as Cape Town is bound to have a few interesting
nicknames. “Tavern of the Seas” is one of these, as Cape Town was the
relax-and-refresh hub where weary sailors would gather after being at
sea for months on end.
Another almost-forgotten nickname for
Cape Town is “Cape Grab”, which Cape Town was known as because of
certain innkeepers who charged very high rates for sailors looking for
board and lodging.
A more commonly-used nickname for Cape
Town, which is the oldest town in South Africa, is the “Mother City”,
and the reasoning behind this takes a little more investigation to
figure out.
“In the 1930's some unknown party wrote to the
local Cape Town newspaper claiming that Cape Town was the only city in
South Africa that could justly call itself a metropolis. The public took
to this description and because the word metropolis is derived from the
Greek derivation of meter or metros meaning mother and polis meaning
city, the nickname of "Mother City" was born. Hence today South Africans know their city as being the Mother City."
Another (rather more
candid) explanation that has been offered as to why Cape Town is called
the “Mother City” is that it is “due to the highly expressive vocabulary
of the local dialect (in which the words "your mother" features
regularly) and also that it takes 9 months to do anything in this sleepy
hollow.”
Cape
Town, also called Kaapstad (Afrikaans) or iKapa (Xhosa), lies at the
southwestern tip of South Africa on the Cape Peninsula and is the
capital of the province Western Cape.
The Western Cape Province is one of the
nine provinces of the Republic of South Africa and can be compared in
size with the size of England.
The City Bowl, which is Cape Town's
business district, has got a picturesque setting on the Cape Peninsula
as it is framed by the Table Mountain range to the South, the Atlantic
Ocean to the West and the Indian Ocean to the South East.
Cape Town is the legislative capital of
South Africa, with the National Parliament located next to the Company
Gardens. From January to June the National Parliament meets in Cape
Town, the second half of the year it moves to Tswane (Pretoria).
The Mother City is South Africa’s
oldest city and was founded in 1652 when the Dutch East India Company
established the first settlement in Southern Africa.
Cape Town is with Johannesburg the
biggest transport hub in Southern Africa with an International Airport
which receives a huge upgrade this year and the Cape Town port is very
popular along the busiest trade route in the world with its working
harbor. The port also has got the second biggest container port in
Southern Africa.
Geography
• Location: 33S 18E, same latitude with Santiago/Chile and Perth or Newcastle/Australia
• Third biggest city in South Africa after Johannesburg and Durban
• Highest point: Table Mountain at 1,063m above sea level
Population
• 3.5 million in Cape Town Metropolitan area (5.2 m in the Western Cape)
• Unemployment: 23.4%
Main Languages
Afrikaans 41%, Xhosa 29%, English 28%
More info about languages in South Africa: official languages, home languages and more.
Time
Cape Town's time zone is UTC (Greenwich Mean Time) +2
• 7 hours ahead of New York/USA
• 2 hours ahead of London/UK
• 1 hour ahead from Germany/France/EU
• 7 hours behind Perth/Australia
There is no daylight savings time in South Africa, but beware of the other countries changing in March and October
Currency
South African Rand (ZAR). 1 Rand has got 100 Cents.
Fun Site of the Month
 This
is a fun site to pimp people when they ask silly questions that they
could Google for themselves. For instance, say someone asked you how
many people live in Cape Town? You could go to this site, enter the
question and it will spit out a URL that you can send. Click here to see what it sends.
New to Office 365 in July—new intelligent services Researcher and Editor in Word
Introducing Researcher—accessing credible sources and cited content just got easier
Researcher is a new service in Word that helps you find and
incorporate reliable sources and content for your paper in fewer steps.
Right within your Word document you can explore material related to your
topic and add it—and its properly-formatted citation—in one click.
Researcher uses the Bing Knowledge Graph to pull in the appropriate
content from the web and provide structured, safe and credible
information.
Introducing Editor—your new digital writing assistant
While Researcher helps you start a paper, Editor assists you with the
finishing touches by providing an advanced proofing and editing
service. Leveraging machine learning and natural language
processing—mixed with input from our own team of linguists—Editor makes
suggestions to help you improve your writing. Initially, it will help
you simplify and streamline written communications by flagging unclear
phrases or complex words, such as recommending “most” in place of “the
majority of.”
Nintendo's new (old) system
That dusty old NES
in your attic might be rife with nostalgic memories, but it's a pain to
drag out of its box whenever you get the hankering for a rousing game
of Super Mario Bros. 3.
Nintendo totally gets it, as well as the fact that you might want
something a little more convenient to enjoy your classic games. Enter
the Nintendo Entertainment System: NES Classic Edition, a mini replica
of the original console.
The diminutive version of one of the most influential home video
game consoles of all time will launch with over 30 NES titles preloaded,
including Super Mario Bros., The Legend of Zelda, Final Fantasy and Metroid. The mix also includes some surprising choices such as StarTropics, but it's a well-rounded sampling of the best the system has to offer.
The full list includes Balloon
Fight, Bubble Bobble, Castlevania, Castlevania II: Simon's Quest,
Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., Double Dragon II: The Revenge, Dr. Mario,
Excitebike, Final Fantasy, Galaga, Ghosts' N Ghoblins, Gradius, Ice
Climber, Kid Icarus, Kirby's Adventure, Mario Bros., Mega Man 2,
Metroid, Ninja Gaiden, Pac-Man, Punch-Out!! Featuring Mr. Dream,
StarTropics, SUPER C, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 2, Super
Mario Bros. 3, Tecmo Bowl, The Legend of Zelda and Zelda II: The
Adventure of Link.
For $59.99, you'll get the preloaded
games, an HDMI cable, an AC adapter and one NES Classic Controller,
which obviously looks exactly like the ones you're used to.
When you just don't care...aka old guy jokes
I was standing at the bar one night, minding my own business.
This fat, ugly chick came up behind me, grabbed my butt and said, "You're kind of cute; you gotta phone number?"
I said, "Yeah. You gotta pen?"
She said, "Yeah, I gotta pen."
I said, "You’d better get back in it before the farmer misses you!"
Janner: "Give me three packets of condoms, please."
Cashier: "Do you need a paper bag with that, Sir?"
Janner: "Nah… she's pretty good looking."
I was talking to a girl in the bar last night.
She said, "If you lost a few pounds, had a shave and a haircut, you'd look alright."
I said, "If I did that, I'd be talking to your friends over there, instead of you."
I was telling a girl in the bar about my ability to guess what day a woman was born just by feeling her boobs.
"Really?" she said, "Go on then... try."
After about thirty seconds of fondling she began to lose patience and said, "Come on, what day was I born?"
I said, "Yesterday."
I went to the bar last night and saw a fat chick dancing on a table.
I said "Good legs."
The girl giggled and said, "Do you really think so?"
I said, "Definitely! Most tables would have collapsed by now."
You know it's hot when...
Heavy Rain Wreaks Havoc on Stadium
Uninterrupted
rainfall has caused a football stadium to flood so much the goalposts
are under water and it now looks like nothing more than a giant swimming
pool.
Reports
said similar freak weather conditions have not been seen for decades,
and tens of thousands are now being evacuated from their homes.
Heavy
storms in the city of Ezhou, in Central China’s Hubei Province, have
inundated the streets with water and have caused serious disruptions to
public transport.
Mingtang Stadium, the city’s landmark, is now also full of floodwater, making it look more like a bathtub than football grounds.
Reports
said it is the first time in 30 years, since the stadium’s completion,
that it has ever been flooded, with water covering the pitch and even
reaching above the goal at either end.
I told you I wanted to help...
20 Absurd Struggles Only Millennials Could Understand
Partial list (of a lot of things I don't even comprehend):
Getting a headache from watching too much Netflix.
Accidentally liking your ex's new girlfriend's Instagram pic from 35 weeks ago.
Running into your friends . . . on Tinder and Hinge.
Snapchatting every single moment of your life.
Filling up with rage when your iCloud storage gets full.
Talking about nostalgia for the '90s, while knowing you never even owned a HitClip.
Waiting forever for Venmo money to be added to your bank account.
Getting totally screwed when your Uber driver cancels on you.
Texting only in emoji.
complete article
Jet Surf
This is the coolest water toy ever invented. Fun to ride. Really challenging physically....but loads of fun.
Video
Quotable
"Even Betty Crocker burns a biscuit every now and then."
- Pat Hughes
"Cool Prius."
- nobody
BLT Pasta Salad
1 (16 ounce) package medium seashell pasta
1 pound sliced bacon
1 1/2 cups light Ranch-style salad dressing
1 small onion, chopped
2 tomatoes, chopped
1/2 head of iceberg lettuce, shredded
Directions
Bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil. Add the pasta, and
cook until tender, about 8 minutes. Drain, and rinse under cold water
to cool.
Meanwhile, cook the bacon in a large deep skillet
over medium-high heat until browned and crisp. Remove from the pan and
drain on paper towels.
In a large bowl, stir together the
Ranch dressing, onion, lettuce and tomatoes. Mix in the cooled pasta.
The pasta will absorb some of the dressing, so don't worry if it seems
like too much. Refrigerate for several hours or overnight. Crumble bacon
over the top just before serving.
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