It Ain’t Necessarily So Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald

Pictures today are from Mt. Dora–http://www.visitmountdora.com/ A place were I spend a lot of Sundays…. I’ll be doing a couple of honorable mentions from there this week as well—getting ready for the UK….hopefully you’ll love the trip and my info from there as well (assuming you even LIKE what I’ve been doing so far.)

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THEY’RE BACK–in more ways than one

A blow by blow of episode 1, season two complaining about no sex: http://www.wired.com/2016/04/outlander-recap-s02e01/

and a review questioning direction and purpose: http://www.ew.com/article/2016/04/06/outlander-season-2-review

I liked it….it starts with a return to the 20th century and then back with Jamie starting to get some of his old self back and though the back to the future stuff confused those that haven’t read the book it’s an episode (of which we had some last time) to pull us all back into the events and move us on to more sex, violence and in this case FRENCH decadence and stopping a massacre of the Clans and their civilization and life style.

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Over the weekend which included lunch with friends at First Watch and binging on OUTLANDER until the new season started at 9 pm and then Sunday doing volunteer work in Mt. Dora—I decided on a topic of things that you think are true and you’ve been taught that they were for years—but suddenly zap you found out (or in a rare case are just finding out here) that all that true is gone….so here we go folks on consideration of things that ain’t necessarily TRUE.

It ain’t necessarily so.

FIRST LET’S START WHERE MY PICTURES ARE: MT. DORA:

Mount Dora is a U.S. city in Lake County, Florida. As of 2011, the United States Census Bureau estimates the Mount Dora population at 12,534. It is part of the Orlando-Kissimmee, FL, Metropolitan Statistical Area. Wikipedia

I’ve been visiting. even stayed over night at the Lakeside Inn http://www.lakeside-inn.com/ Mt. Dora for years and years. and all this time I’ve been told that “The large, beautiful lake upon which the city grew is named for Ms. Dora Ann Drawdy (1819-1885), who homesteaded in the mid-1800s and befriended federal surveyors with her warm hospitality. In 1846, the surveyors named Lake Dora for her, and years later, in 1883, the small but growing town was named for the lake. Today, Ms. Drawdy is buried in Umatilla.” http://ci.mount-dora.fl.us/index.aspx?nid=317

But according to James M. Laux’s (and now on the town’s official web site—and confirmed at the history museum) book MOUNT DORA A SHORT HISTORY; Dora Ann and her family did not move to the area until after 1850 and by this time the survey had been completed and the lake already named….so the truth of the matter is that though it a great little tale, as legends go, it is not supported by any factual information and point of fact no one know just exactly how the lake and later the town received the name.

Lil’ David was small, but oh my!

FINGER PRINTS–NO TWO ARE THE SAME AND THEY’RE FOOLPROOTH IN AN CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION.

I recently read something on this and was astounded as this has been gospel in Hollywood and in all the court cases and thing I’ve seen and heard since I was a child….more recently I spoke to a young lady who’s grandmother had worked at the FBI and she said her grandmother had told her this as well—it’s everywhere though: ” The skin on the palmar surface of the hands and feet forms ridges, so-called papillary ridges, in patterns that are unique to each individual and which do not change over time. Even identical twins (who share their DNA) do not have identical fingerprints.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerprint

In fact the British Telegraph states: “Nobody has yet proved that fingerprints are unique and families can share elements of the same pattern.” http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/03/14/why-your-fingerprints-may-not-be-unique/ But wait it gets more confusing–for even if we prove that no two are a like we may not be able to prove that everyone person’s is the same all the time: “This cornerstone of criminal investigation and identification may be flawed, as Mike Silverman (who introduced the first automated fingerprint detection system to the Metropolitan Police) claims that human error, partial prints and false positives mean that fingerprints evidence is not as reliable as is widely believed….’No two fingerprints are ever exactly alike in every detail; even two impressions recorded immediately after each other from the same finger.” http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2609919/Not-handy-Fingerprints-flawed-way-identifying-criminals-arent-unique-thought-says-Home-Office-scientist.html#ixzz45XeEpvCG

Oh and you can’t even believe in snow flakes: Scientist Nancy Knight documented snowflakes in 1988 while studying cirrus clouds for the National Center for Atmospheric Research. During a Wisconsin snowstorm she found two identical sets of snow crystals — identical under a microscope, at least — giving lie to the old belief that no two snowflakes are alike. https://psmag.com/why-fingerprints-aren-t-the-proof-we-thought-they-were-e870231c8447#.dq23vbxu0

He fought Big Goliath

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The previous record holder for the most expensive diamond was the 24.78-carat Graff Pink, sold by Sotheby’s for $46.2 million in 2010. In 2013, Sotheby’s auctioned a pink diamond called the ‘Pink Star‘ for $83.2 million, but the buyer ultimately defaulted on the payment. Nov 11, 2015 www.cnn.com/2015/11/12/luxury/most–expensive–diamond/

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For years we’ve all seen the diamonds—it’s what you get or give for a token of your undying love and faithfulness before you marry–there are famous (on in-famous) ones–like the Hope–the British crown jewels are renowned for their content and the list goes on and on. We spend fortunate on them and they have become legendary. BUT—“…diamond(s) …are far more common than their cost suggests. The big gem companies aggressively control the supply that arrives at market, creating artificial scarcity and high prices. This practice was born in the diamond fields of South Africa in the 1880s, when Cecil Rhodes, the chairman of De Beers Consolidated Mines, discovered that he could inflate prices at will simply by locking up the rights to every diamond mine he could find. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/02/AR2010070203990.html

The other two falsies that they point out about the stones is that we have not stopped the mining, nor our purchasing of blood diamonds. Oh and that whole thing about” Diamonds long being a symbols of love and marriage. Well my dears: “The tradition of the diamond engagement ring was largely concocted in the 1930s by De Beers’s ad agency N.W. Ayer & Son — the same Madison Avenue shop that would later craft the wildly successful slogan “A diamond is forever.” Through magazine advertisements and Hollywood product placements,”

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