May 5

 

 

 

May 5, 2021   Week: 18    Day:  125       

Visibility: 10 miles	Ave. Sky Cover:5 %
Local: H 71°\ L 35°	Nearest Lightning: 436mi.
Wind:  7mph/ Gusts:  13mph	High Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  29mi
May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission.

Arnold Bennett

Random Tidbits

 

The theory of evolution suggests that ultimately every living thing can trace its ancestry to a bacterium that lived billions of years ago.

Charles Darwin did not come up with his theory of evolution while at the Galapagos Islands. His ideas came later, after his return from the voyage.

 

Humor

 

How do you know you’re in the presence of a real Coloradan?

He carries his $3,000 mountain bike atop his $500 car.

Real Cities

 

Paint Lick, Kentucky is an unincorporated community in Garrard County, Kentucky. In 2015, a new route for KY 52 opened, bypassing the town. Its elevation is 820 feet (250 m). It has a post office with the ZIP code 40461. Sites within the community include Paint Lick Presbyterian Church (1879).

 

True Things

 

Disturbing the Peace

Neighbors around a new luxury condo tower in Brooklyn, New York, are up in arms, and up at night, because of the persistent, shrill whistle they say is coming from the building, reported NBC New York. The city has been inundated with complaints. "It almost sounds like the subway screeching, but it's constant, and it usually happens late at night," Chris Valentini said of the noise. A representative of the developer told neighbors the sound originates from wind whipping around the new metal balconies. "This is not uncommon in new buildings," he said, "and we will resolve it." [NBC New York, 4/3/2021]

 

Monthly Observations

 

International Audit Month Lin`k International Business Image Improvement Month International Civility Awareness Month International Mediterranean Diet Month International Victorious Woman Month Jewish-American Heritage Month Latino Books Month Lupus Awareness Month Link Melanoma/Skin Cancer Detection & Prevention Month Mental Health Month Military Appreciation Month Link Motorcycle Safety Month Mystery Month

 

Weekly Observations

 

Ramadan	Thru 5/11
International Wildlife Film Week Link	Thru 5/15
National Playground Safety Week Link National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link	Thru 30
Choose Privacy Week: Link	1-7
Be Kind To Animals Week   Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week   Link  Drinking Water Week   Link  Flexible Work Arrangement Week    Goodwill Industries Week    International Clitoris Awareness Week     Nat’l Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week   National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week    National Correctional Officer's Week     National Family Week     National Hug Holiday Week National Root Canal Appreciation Week    Link   National Small Business Week National Tourism Week   Link   North American Occupational Safety & Health Week    Link Public Service Recognition Week    Link National Pet Week   Link   Update Your References Week	2-8
Air Quality Awareness Week Link  International Coaching Week  Link National Safety Stand Down Week (Construction Falls Link PTA Teacher Appreciation Week Teacher Appreciation Week Link	3-7
Children's Book Week  National Sun Safety Week Link National Wildflower Week  Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week) Link	3-9
(World) Dystonia Awareness Week Link	3-11

 

Today’s Observations

 

African World Heritage Day

Beverage Day
Bike to School Day 

Cartoonist Day

Chanel No. 5 Day
Childhood Stroke Awareness Day Link
Cinco de Mayo

Great American Grump Out 
Hoagie Day

International Day of The Midwife Link
International Roller Derby Day
Midwife Day

Museum Lover’s Day

National Astronaut Day Link
National Bike To School Day Link
National Day to Prevent Teen & Unplanned Pregnancy Link 
National (Deaf) Interpreter Day  Link  
National Enchilada Day – Happy Cinco de Mayo!

National Hoagie Day

National Skilled Trades Day  Link 
Oyster Day

Revenge of the Fifth (Star Wars Sith) Link
Silence The Shame Day  Link
Totally Chipotle Day
World Asthma Day
World Portuguese Language Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

A great spring day. I had our retirement group lunch today. This is the first time all of us were together in well over a year. Very enjoyable on the patio of Wildflower Bakery. We have been talking over the year, but to be in person was so much better.

Thanks to the Navajo Nation for donating PPE supplies to the people of India. Very cool!

Both the Republican and Democrat party are having internal strife that is tearing them apart. As one moves more left, the other moves more right. Neither is doing the right thing. We the people who elected them should be their ONLY concern. So tired of ‘if this passes…’ our democracy will be destroyed.

Two Arizonans are being honored with the JFK Profile in Courage Award, with one of the two being from Flagstaff. Darrell Marks is the Native American Academic Advisor at Flagstaff High School. Marks is Navajo and is a single parent of two teenage sons. He has coordinated deliveries of food and supplies to Navajo and Hopi families struggling during the pandemic. He also advocated for voting rights for Native Americans and has worked to provide access to remote learning opportunities in tribal areas made even more isolated by COVID-19. Marks also served as a personal counselor and resource to students struggling with loss and depression. He said: " I DO THIS SO MY CHILDREN WON'T HAVE TO"

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

What can’t talk but will reply when spoken to?

 

Historical Events

 

1809 – Mary Kies became the first woman awarded a US patent (#X01043), for a technique of weaving straw with silk and thread.

1821 – Corsica-born Napoleon Bonaparte died as a British prisoner on the remote island of Saint Helena in the southern Atlantic Ocean.

1847 – The American Medical Association (AMA) met for the first time in the Hall of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1862 – General Ignacio Zaragoza defeated a French army led by General Charles Latrille de Lorencez that was attempting to capture Puebla de Los Angeles, a small town in east-central Mexico. This was the initial Cinco de Mayo cause for celebration.

1891 – The Music Hall in New York City (now known as Carnegie Hall) has its grand opening and first public performance, with Pyotr Tchaikovsky as the guest conductor.

1912 – Pravda, representing the news, from the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, began publication in Saint Petersburg.

1934 – The first Three Stooges short – Woman Haters was released.

1936 – The patent (#2,039,345) was issued for the first bottle with a screw cap and a pouring lip to Edward A. Ravenscroft, Glencoe, Illinois

1961 – Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, the first American astronaut to travel into space.

1965 – The Warlocks, later known as The Grateful Dead, made their first public appearance at Magoo’s Pizza located at 639 Santa Cruz Avenue, Menlo Park, California.

1969 Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)

2017 Anna Wintour, the editor of US Vogue, is made a dame by Queen Elizabeth at Buckingham Palace

2020 Global confirmed cases of COVID-19 reach 3.65 million, US cases pass 70,000 while the UK becomes the most affected in Europe with 29,427 known deaths

Birthdays Today

 

@81 – James Beard, American chef and author (d. 1985)

78 – Michael Palin, English actor and screenwriter

@64 – Karl Marx, German philosopher, sociologist, wrote The Communist Manifesto (died in 1883)

@57 – Nellie Bly [Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman], journalist, author (d. 1922; pneumonia)

@55 – Tammy Wynette, American singer-songwriter (d. 1998; blood clot)

40 – Danielle Fishel, American actress

38 – Henry Cavill, English actor

33 – Adele, English singer-songwriter

32 – Chris Brown, American singer-songwriter

 

Puzzle Answer

 

An echo