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6/23/23 - Pizza, Pen Pals, and Graduation Traditions

Friday 6/23/23


Celebrate:

International Widows' Day

Let It Go Day

National Hydration Day

National Pecan Sandies Day

National Pink Day

Pink Flamingo Day

Runner's Selfie Day

SAT Math Day

Take Your Dog to Work Day

Typewriter Day

United Nationals Public Service Day


National Detroit-Style Pizza Day

Detroit Pizza - Reflecting the city’s deep ties to the auto industry, Detroit-style pizza was originally baked in a square automotive parts pan in the 1940’s. Detroit pizza is first topped with pepperoni, followed by brick cheese which is spread to the very edges of the pan, yielding a caramelized cheese perimeter. Sauce is then spooned over the pizza, an order similar to Chicago-style pizza. This pizza features a thick, extra crispy crust that is tender and airy on the inside.


The ones we are most familiar with around here.

New York Style - large, foldable slices and crispy outer crust.


Sicilian Pizza - a thick cut of pizza with pillowy dough, a crunchy crust, and robust tomato sauce. This square-cut pizza is served with or without cheese, and often with the cheese underneath the sauce to prevent the pie from becoming soggy.


Chicago Style- Deep-Dish Pizza. a thick crust that had raised edges, similar to a pie, and ingredients in reverse, with slices of mozzarella lining the dough followed by meat, vegetables, and then topped with a can of crushed tomatoes.


California - gourmet pizza, is known for its unusual ingredients.


St. Louis Pizza - a thin crust with a cracker-like consistency that is made without yeast. Due to the crispy crust, St. Louis pizza is usually cut into three- or four-inch rectangles, known as "party" or "tavern" cut.


Asteroid City from Wes Anderson - Including Rupert Friend, Edward Norton, Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Jeffrey Wright, Steve Carell, Rita Wilson, Scarlett Johansson, Margot Robbie, Tilda Swinton, Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, Jeff Goldblum, Tony Revolori, Jason Schwartzman, Adrien Brody, Liev Schreiber, Fisher Stevens, Sophia Lillis, Hong Chau, Hope Davis, Stephen Park, Grace Edwards, Maya Hawke, Jake Ryan, Aristou Meehan in the cast.


No Hard Feelings - Jennifer Lawrence, Matthew Broderick, Natalie Morales, and more in a comedy.


Saturday is Midsummer Day marking the midpoint of the growing season, halfway between planting and harvest. It is traditionally known as one of four “quarter days” in some cultures. Folks celebrated by feasting, dancing, singing, and preparing for the hot summer days ahead.


After months of writing back and forth, some Beaverton third graders can now say they’ve met their pen pals in person.

Third graders at West Tualatin View Elementary School recently lined up and walked down the street to Touchmark in the West Hills. The students had been exchanging hand-written letters with people in their 90s at the retirement community since January.

“We never really know what they look like until now. And we never know what they sound like or any of the other attributes, like how they act or anything,” said third grader Lydia Chen.

“I only have one grandchild and one great-grandchild, and I need lots of them. So this is the opportunity to have a lot more,” 95-year-old Ethel Henry said.

Officials with the retirement community say the meeting was extra special because its residents were not allowed to interact with children for quite some time during the pandemic.


The Agriculture Department cleared the first two companies to sell chicken meat grown from cells. Upside Foods and Good Meat, maker of the plant-based Just Egg, are pitching the meat as a humane, ecologically friendly alternative to butchering chickens. Neither can produce the meat at scale yet but have plans to start introducing them in dishes at high-end restaurants.

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Why do graduates wear square hats? It’s hip to be square: The mortarboard is another anachronism from the university’s medieval holy days. Back in the 11th century, a newly ordained clergyman would receive a round skullcap called a calotte. As the centuries passed and universities grew to include new areas of study, the headwear stuck around. The hat evolved from a small skullcap to a round and puffy beret (called a pileus rotundus) to a square-shaped hat (called a pileus quadratus, which supposedly saved time and fabric). Four centuries later, the ceremonial square cap — first called a mortarboard in the 19th century for its resemblance to the boards masons used for carrying mortar — remains the graduate’s go-to.


Why do graduates throw their caps? (frowned upon)

It’s not entirely certain when graduates started throwing their caps in the air, but 1912 is the first well-remembered instance. That year, the graduating class at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis anxiously awaited their commission to become officers. Upon graduation, they would be given an officer’s cap and would no longer need the midshipman hats they had worn during their grueling cadet years. (Previously, graduates had to serve in the fleet for two years before getting their commissions, but the Navy was desperate for junior officers, and relaxed the rules that year.) So when it came time to don their new officer hats, the graduating class threw their old ones into the air in celebration, and a tradition was born.


More interesting graduation facts

https://www.interestingfacts.com/graduation-traditions-history/Ynm8L1m3LQAHz-rn?liu=9be8ce5778091a2215310e0d87e7a3f8&utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1824502719


Netflix has new metrics on viewership and that means a shakeup on their list.

Wednesday now is the most popular english language show beating Stranger Things 4.

Squid Game is the most popular series overall.

speaking of TV, Just Jack and Will is a new Podcast where Sean Hayes and Eric McCormack will do a weekly rewatch of Will and Grace and discuss the episodes. The pre show and first episode podcasts drop for free today.

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Marvel's new Disney+ show "Secret Invasion" is generating a lot of controversy . . . for its TITLE SEQUENCE. And it's all because they chose to use A.I. to create it.

It kind of fits with the theme of the show, which is about shapeshifting aliens called Skrulls, and the fact that you never really know who's actually human and who's not.

But a lot of fans think it looks like GARBAGE. And perhaps more importantly, others are upset that Marvel took the job of creating the title sequence away from actual human animators.


All three players on "Jeopardy" can wind up with nothing after betting it all on Final Jeopardy and getting the question wrong. If they do, they get replaced, and there are three new players the next day.

It's happened seven times in the show's history.


Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The "New York Times" has approximately 1,600 to 1,700 obituaries pre-written so they'll be ready to go when certain people actually die.

The obits are added at a rate of about three a week and it is drained at roughly the same rate.

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