Happy 4th of July!
(Image is from San Pablo's 4th of July Family Celebration, Fireworks Show & Elvis Tribute - 2014)
I won’t be updating the news today, instead here is a
great infographic on fireworks injuries, how to avoid food poisoning and an often overlooked and very
specific section of the U.S. Code (there are links to more on flag use if you’re
curious.)
Have a great and safe 4th!
 Four Food Safety Tips for the Fourth! How to Protect Your Family from a Surprising July 4th Danger
- See more at:
http://blogs.usda.gov/2012/07/02/four-food-safety-tips-for-the-fourth-how-to-protect-your-family-from-a-surprising-july-4th-danger/#sthash.8dLHsQIt.dpuf
Flag etiquetteFrom the U.S. Code:
§ 3. Use of flag for advertising purposes; mutilation of
flag
Any person who, within the District of Columbia, in any
manner, for exhibition or display, shall place or cause to be placed any
word, figure, mark, picture, design, drawing, or any advertisement of any
nature upon any flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America;
or shall expose or cause to be exposed to public view any such flag,
standard, colors, or ensign upon which shall have been printed, painted, or
otherwise placed, or to which shall be attached, appended, affixed, or
annexed any word, figure, mark, picture, design, or drawing, or any
advertisement of any nature; or who, within the District of Columbia, shall
manufacture, sell, expose for sale, or to public view, or give away or have
in possession for sale, or to be given away or for use for any purpose, any
article or substance being an article of merchandise, or a receptacle for
merchandise or article or thing for carrying or transporting merchandise, upon
which shall have been printed, painted, attached, or otherwise placed a
representation of any such flag, standard, colors, or ensign, to advertise,
call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on
which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished
by a fine not exceed $100 or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days,
or both, in the discretion of the court. The words ‘‘flag, standard, colors,
or ensign’’, as used herein, shall include any flag, standard, colors,
ensign, or any picture or representation
of either, or of any part or parts of either, made of any substance or
represented on any substance, of any size evidently purporting to be either
of said flag, standard, colors, or ensign of the United States of America or
a picture or a representation of either, upon which shall be shown the
colors, the stars and the stripes, in any number of either thereof, or of any
part or parts of either, by which the average person seeing the same without
deliberation may believe the same to represent the flag, colors, standard, or
ensign of the United States of America.
(July 30, 1947, ch. 389, 61 Stat. 642; Pub. L. 90–381, §
3, July 5, 1968, 82 Stat. 291.)
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Thursday, July 3, 2014
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