May 26

 

 

 

May 26, 2021   Week: 22    Day: 146                     

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 75°\ L 41°

Wind:  2mph/ Gusts:  10mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  256mi Nearest Lightning: 534mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

Humor

 

Four women are driving across the country together, each one from a different state: Idaho, Nebraska, Montana, and California. Shortly after the trip begins, the woman from Idaho pulls potatoes from her bag and throws them out the window. “What are you doing?” asks the Nebraskan.

“We have so many of these things in Idaho, I’m sick of looking at them.”

A moment later, the gal from Nebraska pulls ears of corn from her bag and tosses them from the window. “What are you doing?” asks the gal from Montana.

“We have so many of these things in Nebraska, I’m sick of looking at them.”

Inspired, the Montanan opens the car door and kicks the Californian out.

 

Real Cities

 

Dull, Ohio is an unincorporated community in Van Wert County, Ohio. Dull is 2.50 miles (4.02 km) west-southwest of Ohio City.

Dull was originally called McKee, and under the latter name was laid out in 1879 by J. M. Dull and others. A post office was established under the name Dull in 1880, and remained in operation until 1909

 

True Things

 

Seems Like a Lot of Trouble

Authorities in Houston charged former Bank of America employee Juan Esteban Ramirez on March 24 with a second felony in connection with tricking young female customers into unlocking their phones so he could steal nude photos of them. In both cases, Ramirez allegedly took the phones to show the women how to look up information on their bank accounts, but with the phones unlocked, he found and sent himself intimate photos. In the second case, Ramirez also texted the woman, who felt threatened, Harris County Assistant District Attorney Keaton Forcht told KPRC-TV. "It's highly unlikely that these are the only two victims," he said. [Click2Houston.com, 3/24/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Playground Safety Week Li`nk
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week 
Link

Thru 30  

Fleet Week (NY)

20-26

National African Violet Week
National Backyard Games Week

National Safe Boating Week
World Schizophrenia Awareness Week
Link

 

23-29

Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link
International Learn To Swim Week
Link
National Fragrance Week
Link

24-30  

Undergraduate Research Week Link 

24-28 

Mule Days  Link  (Moved from April)
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories:

 

25-31

Fleet Week (NY)

26-31

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

Day of Vesak Link  

National Blueberry Cheesecake Day
National Chardonnay Day Link
National Cherry Dessert Day

National Paper Airplane Day Link
National Senior Health & Fitness Day 
Link  
World Lindy Hop Day
World Otter Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

We had our weekly lunch early as Mary’s fraternal twin grandchildren are graduating from 8th grade on Thursday in Phoenix.  Good food and conversation at outdoor sandwich shoppe.

I am used to reading about volcanoes in Iceland, not so much in the Congo. Now the people of Congo are suffering from a very active volcano.

Air travel has been changed…forever. The hijacking of a plane flying over Belarus with a Russian plane forcing them to land is frightening. They wanted and got a journalist who had written some comments about the government of Belarus. This seems beyond belief in every civilized country.

Watch out if you donate $$ on the internet machine. Both Dems and Republicans have had campaigns recently that allow donations that become recurring donations as the default. Talk about sneaky. The former Trump campaign has had to refund $64million to doners who were unaware that their contribution was a recurring donation…sometimes every month, others were every week. Congress needs to get busy in making this illegal. The easiest way is to make a clear button on the donation site where the doner opts in and chooses how often they donate.

Back in my teaching days I was the sponsor of the yearbook for Tuba. It is a challenging responsibility for sure. I was shocked when I saw the photos a sponsor recently photoshopped photos of some 80 girls for ‘inappropriate’ individual photos at a high school. She did a bad job of photoshopping and never contacted the students or the parents regarding her draconian interpretation of ‘appropriate’ dress. She allowed the boy’s swim team to be in speedos. A verbal apology and a refund of the cost of the yearbook is just the beginning.

A few days ago I mentioned that a local indigenous high school counselor won the JFK Profiles in Courage Award for his work during the pandemic. This morning there was a story about him on NPR. Turns out, I knew his family in Tonalea and his younger siblings were students at Red Lake Day School where I worked. Cool.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

Anagram BEST RATING to get two five-letter words that are synonyms of each other.

Historical Events

 

1293 (Earthquake) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.

1869 – Boston University was chartered by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

1896 – Charles Dow published the first edition of the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

1897 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel began being sold in the UK.

1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run annually every June.

1977 – George Willig illegally climbed the South Tower of New York City’s World Trade Center.

1998 – The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Ellis Island, the historic gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not New York.

2000 Arthur C. Clarke is knighted "for services to literature" at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka

2002 The Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars

2004 The New York Times publishes admission of journalistic failings, claims its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism during buildup to 2003 Iraq War helped promote belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction.

2012 Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking confidential documents

2014 World Health Organization confirms that Ebola has reached Sierra Leone

2018 Ireland votes to repeal their 8th amendment to allow legalized abortion, 66.4% vote yes

2019 Nine climbers die in a week on Mt Everest after overcrowding leads to a huge queue to reach the summit

2020 Costa Rica becomes the first county in Central America to legalize same-sex marriage

2020 J. K. Rowling begins publishing children's story "The Ickabog" online in installments

 

 

Birthdays Today

 

@83 – Jack Kevorkian, pathologist, author, assisted suicide activist (d. 2011)

@81 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)

76 – Lenny Kravitz, singer

@72 – John Wayne [Marion Robert Morrison], actor (d. 1979; stomach cancer)

73 – Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter

@64 – Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson], American singer, actor (d. 1950; heart attack)

@61 – Sally Ride, American physicist, astronaut (d. 2012; pancreatic cancer)

 

Puzzle Answer

 

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