Jun 26

 

 

 

Jun 26, 2021   Week: 26    Day: 177

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 80%

Local: H 79°\ L 49°

Wind:  7mph/ Gusts:  14mph

High Risk of Fire: 

Active fire:  22mi Nearest Lightning: 102mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Education is the movement from darkness to light.

Allan Bloom

 

Random Tidbits

 

According to Forbes, the top 9 most hazardous summer injuries are caused by 1) playground equipment; 2) skateboards; 3) trampolines; 4) lawn mowers; 5) amusement attractions; 6) non-powder guns, BBs pellets; 7) beach, picnic, camping equipment; 8) barbeque grills, stoves, equipment; and 9) trimmers, small garden tools.

 

True Things

 

Devil's in the Details

Amazon released a new icon for its shopping app in January with what was supposed to look like a jagged piece of tape on a package above Amazon's smiling arrow logo but instead reminded some viewers of Adolf Hitler's mustache, CBS News reported. After Twitter users commented on the resemblance, Amazon tweaked the art and rolled out a more squared-off version in late February. [CBS News, 3/3/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

Animal Rights Awareness Week Link    Link
Greencare For Troops Awareness Week
National Play Catch Week
 
Old Time Fiddlers Week Link
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week 
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week 
Link  
Lightning Safety Awareness Week Link 
National Craft Spirits Week 
Link 
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week Link  
Universal Father's Week  

 

 

 

 

20-26

Old Time Fiddlers Week

21-26  

National Insect Week
National Pollinator Week
Link 

21-27  

American Library Week

24-29

World Hula Week Link

24-26 

Watermelon Thump Seed Spitting Week Link

24-27 

Water Ski Days

25-27

Tour de France Link

26- 7/18

 

Today’s Observations

 

 

ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field Day -27 Link 
626 Day (Lilo & Stitch)  Link
Bar Code Day
Beautician's Day

Forgiveness Day

Great American Backyard Campout 
Harry Potter Day
International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking
International Day in Support of Victims of Torture
National Canoe Day

National Chocolate Pudding Day
National Coconut Day  
Link
National Haskap Berry Day
  
Same Sex Marriage Day
Summersgiving 
Link 

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Clouds are here and looks like rain. I sure hope so.

Hard to believe the collapse of the apartment building in Florida. When I first videos came in, I thought it was happening in a war zone. I really hope they find out the reason for this disaster. I was happy to see the US President contacting the officials in Florida to promise quick and sustained help in dealing with this.

Yesterday I commented on the officer killed in Arvada. Turns out my travel buddy Ed was in Olde Town doing business when it happened. Glad he is safe.

The fire south of Flagstaff is now at 36,000 acres and still slowly growing. Both Flagstaff and Williams (30 miles away) have cancelled the annual fireworks for the Independence Day holiday due to the condition of the forest.

Derrick Chauvin sentenced to basically 22.5 years in prison but will probably bne out in 15 years. Sad.

I updated the Focus website with information on the memorial for Marty. Be sure and check it out. For some unknown reason I couldn’t get on the website to edit it when I tried to sign in. I called Ellie and she hadn’t changed anything. I have the password and ID saved. After several more tries, I discovered that internet machine somehow changed the ID from a ‘.net’ address to a ‘.com’ address. I believe I fixed it, but am scratching my head how it changed, since I never, ever type more than one letter of the ID before the ID and password pop-up. Guess it was some demon or devil messing with me.  

Today, the 25th, is Victory Day for the Lakota Sioux. This is the day they defeated Custer at the Little Big Horn.

 

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

 

goodbe

          goodbe   true

 

 

 

 

cherry  3.14

 

 

Historical Events

 

1498 – The bristle toothbrush was invented in China.

1807 – Lightning struck a gunpowder factory in Luxembourg, killing more than 300 people.

1819 – The first US patent (#X003115) for a velocipede, a predecessor of the bicycle, was issued to William K. Clarkson Jr. of New York.

1870 – Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States.

1906 – 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event was held. Ferenc Szisz, driving for the Renault team, won the two-day event.

1926 – Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises novel was released.

1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union Act, which established credit unions in the US.

1936 – The first flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first working helicopter, in Berlin, Germany.

1945 – The United Nations Charter was signed, in San Francisco.

1963 – US President John F. Kennedy gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech.

1974 – The Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.

1977 – Elvis Presley performed the final concert of his life in Indianapolis, Indiana.

1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

2000 – The completion of a working draft reference DNA sequence of the human genome was announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton and representatives from the Human Genome Project (HGP).

2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right across all US states

2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic, doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion

2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against mostly Muslim countries

2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women because of sexual violence and slave labor by the Thomson Reuters Foundation

2020 New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan

 

Birthdays Today

 

@87 – Colonel Tom Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)

@80 – Pearl S. Buck, novelist, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)

@73 – Abner Doubleday, American general; probably didn’t invent baseball (d. 1893; heart failure)

@59 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor (d. 1964; stroke)

51 – Sean Hayes, American actor

47 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player

29 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress

28 – Ariana Grande, singer, actor

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Too good to be true                                                                      Cherry pie               

           

 

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