Jun 15

 

 

 

Jun 15, 2021   Week: 25    Day: 166

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 10%

Local: H 90°\ L 56°

Wind:  6mph/ Gusts:  13mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  23mi Nearest Lightning: 627mi.

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

 

Today’s Quote

 

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil. J. Paul Getty

 

Random Tidbits

 

Wolves were once the most widely distributed land predator the world has ever seen. The only places they didn't thrive were in the true desert and rainforests.

Britain's King Edgar imposed an annual tax of 300 wolf skins on Wales. The Welsh wolf population was quickly exterminated.

In 1500, the last wolf was killed in England. In 1770, Ireland's last wolf was killed. In 1772, Denmark's last wolf was killed.

In 1927, a French policeman was tried for the shooting of a boy he believed was a werewolf. That same year, the last wild wolves in France were killed.

Currently, there are about 50,000 wolves in Canada; 6,500 in Alaska; and 3,500 in the Lower 48 States. In Europe, Italy has fewer than 300; Spain around 2,000; and Norway and Sweden combined have fewer than 100.

 

Humor

 

Why are cowboys’ hats turned up on the sides? So that three people can fit in the pickup.

 

True Things

 

Bright Ideas

-- On March 9, Eric Dion Warren, 50, was sentenced to federal prison in Lubbock, Texas, after pleading guilty to robbing a bank and using a BMW he was test-driving as his getaway car. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that, according to court documents, Warren drove to the AIM Bank in Wolfforth on June 7, 2019, handed the teller a note demanding $10,000 in small bills and showed what appeared to be a handgun. The teller complied, and Warren headed back to the dealership where he pulled out $3,000 as the down payment on the car he had been driving. As Warren finalized the deal, the dealership received a call about the bank robbery and the connection was made. Warren was given the maximum sentence of 20 years. [Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3/10/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Flag Week National Pet Wedding Week Link National Right of Way Professionals Week Link National Waste & Recycling Workers Week Link	13-19
National Hermit Week	13-20
Bartender of The Year Week Link	14-17
Meet A Mate Week Men's Health Week  Link   Link  US Open Golf Championship	14-20
Royal Ascot Link	15-19

 

Today’s Observations

 

Global Wind Day Link Lobster Day Magna Carta Day Native American Citizenship Day National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers National Kiss a Wookie Day National Lobster Day Link  National Nature Photography Day National Prune Day Smile Power Day World Elder Abuse Awareness Day Link Worldwide Day of Giving Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another scorcher for Flagstaff. So early for 90+. The family American Flag is flying outside for Flag Day! I cleaned both bathrooms before it got too hot. Fan on, windows open. Nice breeze is keeping this heat bearable. As hot as it is, it’s hotter on the Rez at 100+…then this: Major power outage effecting the following communities: Kayenta, Pinon, Forest Lake, Hard Rock, Blue Gap, Tsegi, Kaibeto, Navajo Mtn, Coalmine Mesa, Monument Valley, Mexican Water, Shonto, Tonalea, Dennehotso, Rock Point. This won’t make the news, but sure effects thousands of people. NTUA [Navajo Tribal Utility Authority] is still looking for the reason.  The students I taught are from many of these areas. President Biden seems to be doing a good job in mending fences with many European countries. That’s good news for sure. Some friends stopped by after dinner. They were headed back to the rez after a weekend of fun. Nice visit. The local fire continues to burn…now 11,000 acres with about 250 fighting it. Just saw on FB that Cracker Barrel employees and management volunteered to come in at 3a to make 250 hot breakfasts for the firefighters. And they are going to work their regular shifts today. Very cool! An artist I know from Tuba called the other day to say he was having problems. Everyone has known he is gay for decades. He went to Public School and graduated from the Santa Fe Indian Art Institute years ago. He makes a decent living with his painting and his Kachinas. Over the years he was also an art teacher, a DJ on Tuba’s local HS radio station, a culture teacher, and similar jobs. He usually stayed in each job a couple of years, then would just quit. Anyway, he told me that the 215 Canadian Indigenous children who were buried at the Catholic school brought back many memories of his own early childhood sexual abuse. He didn’t talk about what happened, but realizes he needs mental health assistance to get through this repressed memory. I encouraged him to get the help and to realize that this will all work out in time. He is not traditional, so I didn’t recommend a medicine man. He has texted me a couple of times and seems to be doing a little better. I’m sure he will tell me more when he is ready. I sure wish I could have offered more assistance but have no more answers.

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

 

MAN Board

by LITTLE

 

 

Historical Events

 

763 BC – Assyrians recorded a solar eclipse, and that detail was later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

1215 – The signed (sealed) Magna Carta guaranteed King John would respect feudal rights and privileges, uphold the freedom of the church within his kingdom. This was probably the same King John of Robin Hood lore.

1502 – Christopher Columbus landed on the island of Martinique on his fourth voyage.

1648 – Margaret Jones was hanged in Boston for witchcraft, in the first such execution for the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

1752 – Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).

1776 – Delaware Separation Day: Delaware voted to suspend government under the British Crown and officially separate from Pennsylvania.

1844 – Charles Goodyear received a patent (#3,633) for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

1846 – The Oregon Treaty established the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

1878 – Eadweard Muybridge took a series of photographs to prove that all four feet of a horse leave the ground when it runs; the study becomes the basis of motion pictures. The purpose of the shoot was to determine whether a galloping horse ever lifts all four feet completely off the ground during the gait since the human eye could not break down the action. It is considered by many to be the first ‘motion picture.’

1916 – President Woodrow Wilson signed a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.

1919 – The first US patent (#228,904) for a safety razor was issued to (brothers) Frederick and Otto Kampfe of New York.

1921 – Bessie Coleman earned her pilot’s license, becoming the first female pilot of African-American descent.

1985 – Rembrandt’s painting Danaë was attacked by Bronius Maigys (later judged insane) who threw sulfuric acid on the canvas and cut it twice with a knife.

1992 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in United States v. Álvarez-Machaín that it is permissible for the United States to forcibly extradite suspects in foreign countries and bring them to the United States for trial, without approval from those other countries.

1994 – Israel and Vatican City established full diplomatic relations.

2012 – Nik Wallenda became the first person to successfully tightrope walk over Niagara Falls.

2015 Remains of a 2,000-year-old women dubbed "the sleeping beauty" are announced discovered in Northern Ethiopia from ancient kingdom of Aksum

2015 800 year anniversary of "the birthplace of modern democracy", the signing of the Magna Carta by King John at Runymede, England

2017 Scotland Yard launches criminal inquiry and British Prime Minister Theresa May announces a public inquiry a day after the Grenfell Tower fire

2018 Physicist Stephen Hawking's ashes are interred in Westminster Abbey, London, between the remains of Isaac Newton and Charles Darwin

2020 In landmark decision US Supreme Court rules 6-3 that gay and transgender workers cannot be discriminated against in the workplace

 

Birthdays Today

 

@78  – Alfred Lash LaRue, American cowboy actor (d. 1996; emphysema)

68 -- Xi Jinping, General Secretary of Chinese Communist Party

@67 -- Margaret Bourke-White, American photographer, 1st female LIFE staff photographer (d. 1971; Parkinson’s)

@64 – Waylon Jennings, singer (d. 2002; diabetic complications)

@63 -- Lisa del Giocondo, believed to be the subject of Mona Lisa (d. 1542)

58 – Helen Hunt, American actress

56 – Courteney Cox, American actress

@52 – Harry Nilsson, American singer-songwriter (d. 1994; heart attack)

52 – Ice Cube [O'Shea Jackson], American rapper, actor

51 – Leah Remini, American actress, producer

48 – Neil Patrick Harris, American actor, singer

Puzzles Answer

 

Man overboard                                                      Little by little