Jun 17

 

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Jun  17, 2020 Week: 25  Day: 169

86004:   H 79° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  21mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning:  237mi.; Nearest active fire:  98mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1940]   Record Low: 23°[1923]

Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)

Today’s  Quote

"Whoever is happy will make others happy too."

-Anne Frank

Random Tidbits

Irving Berlin  wrote patriotic songs in WWI and WWII.

In 1917, during World War I, the U.S. Army drafted Berlin to write patriotic songs. In order to raise funds for a community building on his Long Island army base, he wrote Yip! Yip! Yaphank! During World War II, Berlin wrote This Is The Army, which became a Broadway musical and 1943 film starring Ronald Reagan. Berlin chose not to personally profit from the show - he gave all the earnings, over $9.5 million, to the U.S. Army Emergency Relief Fund.

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

"Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.”
– Socrates

Observations This Week

National Hermit Week: 13-20
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 14-20  
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Greencare For Troops Week: 14-20
National Little League Week: 14-20   Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Play Catch Week: 14-20 
National Pet Wedding Week:14-20 
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National Right of Way Professionals Week: 14-20 Link 
National Flag Week: 14-20 

National Waste & Recycling Workers Week: 14-20  Link 
Bartender of The Year Week: 15-18  Link
Meet A Mate Week: 15-21

Men's Health Week: 15-21 Link   Link 
US Open Golf Championship: 15-21 Note: Canceled due to the COVID19
Royal Ascot: 16-20 Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Week of Making: 17-23  
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Observations for Today

Eat Your Vegetables Day

National Apple Strudel Day

National Cherry Tart Day

National Garbage Man Day Link
Stewarts Root Beer Day
World Day To Combat Desertification and Drought
World Tesselation Day  
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My Rambling Thoughts

A windy day. Typical.

Andy and Faith are back from their short vaca with her family. They had a great time. I dropped off their garage opener after my successful blood draw.

My appointment with the blood doc was changed to a video one tomorrow. Glad because his office takes a long time to even get inside…fill out a form, take your temp, wear a mask and then check in and wait for blood draw. Crazy.

As the country opens and AZ has staggering positive cases, this sounds like a good idea: Businesses would be part of a grading system for their Covid19 precautions. Restaurants already have a successful grading protocol for safety violations and the letter grade they get directly affects the number of patrons. So why not a grading system for how a business is having precautions for their patrons. The more precautions, the higher the grade.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Two mothers and two daughters went out to have hamburgers for lunch. Everyone ate exactly one burger, yet only three burgers were eaten. How is this possible?

Historical Events

1462 - Vlad III the Impaler attempted to assassinate Mehmed II, forcing him to retreat from Wallachia, in Romania.

1631 - Mumtaz Mahal died during childbirth. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, spent the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.

1837 - Charles Goodyear obtained his first rubber-processing patent (#240). The success of his company came after he died in 1860.

1852 - W.H. Fancher and C.M. French of Waterloo, N.Y. received a patent (#35,600) for a combined plow and gun.

1885 - The Statue of Liberty arrived in New York Harbor.

1944 - Iceland declared independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.
1963 - The US Supreme Court ruled 8 to 1 in Abington School District v. Schempp, against requiring the reciting of Bible verses and the Lord's Prayer in public schools.
1971 - President Richard Nixon declared the US War on Drugs.
1987 - Florida's Dusky Seaside Sparrow became extinct when 'Orange band', the last known of the species, died.

1994 - All major networks provided live coverage of the O.J. Simpson low-speed car chase in the White Bronco. The chase concluded with Simpson's surrender to authorities in front of his mansion in Brentwood, CA.

1996 The Fifteenth Amendment to the Irish Constitution, which removes the prohibition on divorce, is signed into law following a vote the previous year

2006 Sci-Fi author Anne McCaffrey inducted into the Science Fiction Hall of Fame

2015 US Treasury announced that the image of Alexander Hamilton will be replaced from the US $10 bill by an image of a woman

2019 Activist Joshua Wong calls on Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam to resign after leaving prison amid street protests the day before of over 2 million people.

Birthdays Today

@87-Actor Ralph Bellamy (d. 1991)

77-Politician Newt Gingrich

77-Singer Barry Manilow
69-Comedian Joe Piscopo
57-Actor Greg Kinnear

54-Musician David Michael Navarro (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
54-Actor Jason Patric
39-Tennis Star Venus Wiliams

Puzzle Answer

A grandmother, mother and daughter went out to eat.

 

 


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