June 24


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1610: Membertou (Micmac) becomes the 1st Indian Catholic
1692: Kingston Jamaica founded
1817: 1st coffee planted in Hawaii on Kona coast
1861: Tennessee becomes 11th (& last) state to secede from US
1894: Decision to hold modern Olympics every 4 years
1930: 1st radar detection of planes
1938: 500 ton meteorite lands near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
1948: Soviet Union begins Berlin Blockade
1968: Resurrection City in Wash DC closed permanently
1977: IRS reveals Jimmy Carter paid no taxes in 1976
1982: Equal Rights Amendment goes down to defeat

♪Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
               Returns tomorrow    
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
Our discussion group meets tonight to mull over ‘cloning’ with all the good, bad, and ugly. The blog will be shortened.

It was a windy day and the wind was very warm. I hate the wind. Anyway, got the deck cleaned up, and laid out a bunch of stuff for the trip. Sure hope I can get it all into the required duffle bag and carry-on. I always make it, but never think I will. Getting excited for sure.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle Football Scramble
Every answer is a word or phrase used in football, delivered in the form of an anagram. For example, if the word given for the clue is "saps" the answer would be "pass."
1.     Cask;
2.     Recent:
3.     Melanin:
4.     Dies off:
5.     Aplenty:
6.     Spiking:
7.     Go postal:
8.     Remove it:
9.     Creep into:
10.  Dunner:
11.  Splinted:
12.  Snow drift:
13.  Dangerous:

What is the answer?
Supply the missing vowels to give six 6-letter names of countries. BLZ  CND  KWT  MLW  MXC  PNM
4X4 Word Boxes
The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 3 letters.
1.     where is it?
2.     Austen novel
3.     radiate
4.     destiny
Lifestyle  Substance     
One Hit Wonders of the 1960’s

Harper’s Index         
Percentage increase since2001 in female participation in target shooting in the US: 46.5
Found on You Tube 
        What Really Happened at Tonkin Gulf? 60 Minutes
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
There were three Indian ladies. One slept on a deerskin, one slept on an elk skin and the third slept on a hippopotamus skin. All three became pregnant and the first two each had a baby boy. The one who slept on the hippopotamus skin had twin boys. This goes to prove that the squaw of the hippopotamus is equal to the sons of the squaws of the other two hides.
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
If you invite 100 people to a cocktail party, plan on 75 coming; 25 will send regrets.
Yeah, It Really Happened
Cleveland, OH- Thomas Hatfield, 30, of Ohio is a felon who has previous convictions for aggravated riot and attempted aggravated arson from 1997.
Because of these convictions he must live with certain restrictions, one of these being he cannot be in possession of any firearms. That apparently is one he had a hard time sticking to, considering the weapons he was found with.
However, the Ohio judge who heard his case said he likely will not jail Hatfield whose firearm possession violation cost the man a testicle.
Hatfield pleaded guilty in Cincinnati to being a felon with a firearm after he accidentally shot off one of his own testicles with a .38-caliber semiautomatic handgun.
Police said Hatfield was also in possession of a single-shot 12-gauge shotgun.
"Because you injured yourself, that's kind of bad enough right there, so I'll consider probation," Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman told Hatfield after his guilty plea.
"Obviously," the judge told Hatfield, "you don't know a whole lot about firearms. You need to read the directions."       
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The closing credits in recent films are so long because of various unions that negotiated on-screen recognition as a way for behind-the-scenes folks to "sign" their work. This "signature" serves as a visual resume and helps carpenters, electricians, and so on secure jobs on future movie productions.
  • A Foley artist is a sound effects specialist. Every sound in a film that isn't dialog or music is considered a sound effect. Interestingly enough, Jack Foley, the Universal Studios sound effects pioneer for whom the technique is named, never received an on-screen credit.
  • The opening credits of a movie follow a very specific format. The studio's name and logo appear first, followed by the name of the production company. The next credit lists the investor(s) who backed the film. After the money guys are listed, the director gets his first credit (usually listed as "a film by...").
  • A film today sometimes lists as many as a dozen producers, but most of them aren't actually producers; they're friends, personal assistants, or even fitness trainers of the film's stars. They get a production credit as a special "perk" of their relationship.
  • Sometimes an actor is billed as "special guest star" or "and also starring." This is usually a deal negotiated by an agent for so-called "name" stars who have small parts in films.
  • Some actors use three names because there is already another performer in the Screen Actors Guild Directory with their name. But others use it as a marketing tool; the longer the name, the more screen space it fills during the credits, making it stand out that much more among the other names.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
21-24 
   Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
24-30 
   Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
   Lightning Safety Awareness Weekend
   National Mosquito Control Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      
America's Kids Day
Celebration of the Senses
Descendants Day
International Fairy Day
Log Cabin Day
Museum Comes To Life Day

China: Macau Day (1622, Dutch failure to colonize Macau)   

Today’s Other Events                                                             
Before 1000CE
451: 10th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

1300’s
1314: Battle of Bannockburn; Scotland regains independence from England
1400’s
1497: John Cabot claims eastern Canada for England (believes he found Asia in Nova Scotia)
1500’s
1535: Anabaptists Protestants conquered & disbanded
1540: Henry VIII divorces his 4th wife, Anne of Cleves
1600’s
1664: The colony of New Jersey is founded

1800’s
1832: Reverend Samuel Worcester has been arrested, and convicted of living, and working, among the Cherokee with have a state permit, or having sworn an oath of allegiance to the state of Georgia. Today the Supreme Court rules that the state of Georgia has unfairly tried to exercise control over the Cherokee contrary to federal law, and treaties. The court will strike down most of the anti-Indian laws passed by Georgia, including those seizing their lands, and nullifying tribal laws. Before the trail, President Andrew Jackson officially stated that he has no intention of supporting the Cherokee over the state of Georgia. Speaking to the court's decision today, Jackson would be quoted as saying, "John Marshall has rendered his decision; now let him enforce it." Jackson would ignore the Supreme Court ruling, and continue in his efforts to move the Cherokee out of the south, and into the Indian Territory.
1841: Fordham University (then St John's College), opens in the Bronx
1853: Gadsden Purchase 29,670-square-mile (76,800 square km) from Mexico (now southern Arizona and New Mexico) for $10 million signed by President Franklin Pierce 
1900’s
1901: 1st exhibition by Pablo Picasso, 19, opens in Paris
1916: Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
1931: USSR & Afghanistan sign neutrality treaty
1947: Flying saucers sighted over Mount Rainier by pilot Ken Arnold
1949: "Hopalong Cassidy" becomes 1st network western (NBC)
1957: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that obscenity is not protected by the First Amendment in Roth v. United States
1963: 1st demonstration of home video recorder, at BBC Studios, London
1970: Senate votes overwhelmingly to repeal Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
1997: USAF reports Roswell 'space aliens' were dummies
2000’s
2004: In New York, capital punishment is declared unconstitutional
2007: The Angora Fire starts near South Lake Tahoe, California destroying 200+ structures in its first 48 hours

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Remembered for being born on this day
Norman Cousins, editor (Saturday Review) in 1912
Jack Dempsey, "Manassa Mauler", heavyweight boxing champion (1919-26) in 1895
Roy O. Disney, a founder of the Walt Disney Company in 1893
E I Du Pont, France, chemist/scientist (Du Pont) in 1771
Fred Hoyle, cosmologist (proposed steady-state universe theory) in 1915

In their 80’s
Billy Casper, SD Ca, golfer, 3-time PGA Player of Year ('66, '68, '70) is 81
In their 70’s
Mick Fleetwood, London, rock drummer (Fleetwood Mac-Go Your Own Way) is 70
Michele Lee, LA California, actress/singer (Karen-Knots Landing, Love Bug) is 70
In their 60’s
Jeff Beck, Surrey England, singer/guitarist (Jeff Beck Group) is 68
In their 50’s
Joe Penny, TV actor is 56

Today’s Obits                                                           
Chris Benoit, Canadian professional wrestler kills self, wife, son in 2007 at 40
Grover Cleveland, 22nd & 24th Pres (1885-89, 93-97), diesof heart attack in 1908 at 71
Patsy Ramsey, mother of JonBenét Ramsey dies of ovarian cancer in 2006 at 49

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

What is the answer?
Belize, Canada, Kuwait, Malawi, Mexico, Panama
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Cask; sack
2.     Recent: center
3.     Melanin: lineman
4.     Dies off: off sides
5.     Aplenty: penalty
6.     Spiking: pig skin
7.     Go postal: goal post
8.     Remove it: overtime
9.     Creep into: reception
10.  Dunner: end run
11.  Splinted: split end
12.  Snow drift: first down
13.  Dangerous: nose guard

4X4 boxes
BEEF
EMMA
EMIT
FATE
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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June 23


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Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1713 - The French residents of Acadia are given one year to declare allegiance to Britain or leave Nova Scotia, Canada
1919 - Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) incorporates
1938 - Civil Aeronautics Authority (US) established
1951 - Most expensive US hailstorm ($1.5M crop damage & $14M property-Kansas)
1955 - Walt Disney's "Lady & the Tramp" released
1970 - "Red Skelton Show," last airs on CBS-TV, moved to NBC-TV
1982 - Intelligence Identities Protection Act (Public Law 97-200) 1986 - Tip O'Neill refuses to let Reagan address House
1994 - South Africa reclaims its seat in UN
♪Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
                   
Free Rambling Thoughts   
I got a call from a former teacher at Tuba. She and her recently college graduated  daughter who were traveling  through Flag. Nice to see them both. Gail is happy teaching in Browning Montana, her hometown. Brandi, whom I’ve known since her birth, is working on a grant to study how antibiotics react with different parts of the body. I told her my tendonitis story and she was fascinated and explained it to me so that I really understood it. Brandi was returning from 3 weeks in the Bahamas, her first international trip. She went alone, stayed on couches through couch surfing website. Pretty adventurous. Very cool.

I’m really getting ready for the trip…picked up needed cash, notified bank of travel so my cards will work over there, notified newspaper and post office. I leave on Tuesday morning so still have time for packing. The pain pills are helping my tendonitis so I’ll be good. Chase couldn’t guarantee that my ATM card would work in Kenya or Tanzania, thanks to Homeland Security. Not sure how that works…seems to me it should be Dept. of State, but what do I know. I called Wels Fargo and notified them of my travel. They had no problem setting up my card. I called Chase back and after 15 minutes and threatening to close my account, suddenly the ‘Senior Supervisor’ made it so the card would work. I told them that I didn’t appreciate a bureaucratic lie that Homeland Security made this decision, when it is a Chase policy. He just said that all three previous people had been misinformed. Yeah, right. We’ll see.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A close up picture of what?

NPR Sunday Puzzle You Know Her, Her Name Rhymes with ...
Every answer is the name of a famous writer. Given rhymes for the first and last names, you name the writers. For example: given "Wet Start," you'd say "Bret Harte."
1.     Dark Stain:
2.     Mormon sailor:
3.     Plain Boston:
4.     Dame’s voice:
5.     Villain promise:
6.     Sharper Key:
7.     Villa blather:
8.     Tall fellow:
9.     Yon Beaver:
10.  Tan mice:
11.  Cycle titan:
12.  Mules turn:

What is the answer?
Peter picked one pepper more than Paul. Pat picked one pepper more than Pam. Peter and Paul picked 10 more peppers than Pat and Pam. Peter, Paul, Pat and Pam picked 60 peppers. How many peppers did Peter pick?
4X4 Word Boxes
The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 3 letters.
1.     incidental benefit
2.     ardor inspired by passion
3.     timed competition
4.     joint example
Lifestyle  Substance     
One Hit Wonders of the 1960’s

Harper’s Index         
Number of contestants in an elephant beauty pageant held in Sauraha, Nepal: 5
Found on You Tube 
Johnny Cash and June Carter - rare 1994 TV interview       
Planet Earth—

Joke-of-the-day
Bubba and Johnny Ray, two good ole boys from North Carolina, were sitting' on the front porch drinking beer when a large truck hauling rolls and rolls of sod went by. "I'm gonna do that when I win the lottery," said Bubba. "Do what?" asked Johnny Ray. "Send my grass out to be mowed," answered Bubba.
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
The first person to start yelling in an argument no longer has any meaningful points to make and has lost the argument.
Yeah, It Really Happened
MARIN COUNTY, Calif. - A California man is suing the state Department of Fish and Game, claiming a "mismanaged" wild deer attacked him, a court document shows. Thadeusz Wyrzykowski of Bolinas said in his handwritten court filing that he suffered injuries from falling into a window after deer jumped into his fenced yard last spring and "attacked me (twice) on a narrow path." Asking for unspecified damages, he wrote in his filing that the wildlife department "mismanaged negligently its animal its claims & duties."
A case management conference was scheduled for Oct. 19 in Marin Superior Court, the Marin Independent Journal reported Monday. The newspaper said Wyrzykowski filed another handwritten lawsuit in federal court last year against the Marin County Assessor-Recorder's Office over the county's efforts to collect overdue property taxes from him, in which he described himself as an "independent dignity ambassador" and "orator/scholar/artist." Deputy County Counsel Edward Kiernan called that suit full of "nonsensical, irrelevant non sequitors" and "legally meaningless and pointless facts." That suit was dismissed, the newspaper noted.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Avoid those inky messes inside your purse by storing your ballpoint pens inside a plastic toothbrush container. Your purse will stay clean and stain-free.
  • Cover the bottom of your trash can with a layer of old newspapers. They absorb any liquids that leak from your garbage and keep crumbs and dirt from falling to the bottom. Change the newspaper about once a week.
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Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
17-23
   Universal Father's Week
   Meet A Mate Week
   Old Time Fiddlers Week
21-24 
   Watermelon Seed Spitting Week

Today Is                                                                      
ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field Day
Baby Boomer's Recognition Day
Great American Backyard Campout
Let It Go Day
Pink Flamingo Day (Lawn Ornaments)
Public Service Day
SAT Math Day National
UN Public service Day

Estonia: Victory Day: (since 1934. recalls the victory in the 1919 Battle of Võnnu 
                                        (near Cēsis, Latvia) of the Estonian military forces and their 
                                        allies over German forces (Baltische Landeswehr) who sought 
                                        to re-assert Baltic-German control over the region.)  

Today’s Other Events                                                             
Before 1000CE
930 - World's oldest parliament, the Iceland Parliament, established

1600’s
1683 - William Penn signs friendship treaty with Lenni Lenape indians in Pennsylvania; 
            only treaty "not sworn to, nor broken"
1700’s
1704: James Moore, former Governor of South Carolina, is leading a force of 50 
           British, and 1,000 Creek against Spanish settlements. Today, they will attack the
           Apalachee Mission of San Pedro y San Pable at Patale, in north-western Florida.
           They will take many Indians as slaves and kill Father Manuel de Mendoza.
1800’s
1868 - Christopher Latham Sholes patents "Type-writer"
1900’s
1947 - Truman's veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
1958 - Fed judge rules race separation must end in 2½ years in Little Rock
1963 - Pres Kennedy tours West-Europe
1967 - US Senate censures Thomas J Dodd (D-Ct) for misusing campaign funds
1972 - Pres Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
1979 - Charlie Daniels Band releases "Devil Went Down to Georgia"
1983 - US Supreme Court ruled Congress could not veto presidential decisions
1996 - Nintendo 64 goes on sale in Japan
2000’s
2004 - Bob Dylan accepts honorary doctor of music degree from the University of St 
             Andrews, Scotland's oldest university
2005 - San Antonio Spurs beat Detroit Pistons 4-3 in NBA finals MVP: Tim Duncan (his
             third), San Antonio

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Remembered for being born on this day
June Carter Cash, Maces Spring Va, country singer (Johnny Cash Show) in 1929
Bert Convy, St Louis MO, game show host (Win, Lose or Draw) in 1933
Edward VIII, King of Great Brit/N-Ireland/emperor of India in 1894
Bob Fosse, Chicago Ill, choreographer/director (Cabaret, Damn Yankees) in 1927
Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers) in 1875
David Ogilvy, ‘Father of Advertizing’ (Ogilvy & Mathers) in 1911
Pharaoh Ptolemy XV (Philopator Philometor Caesar) of Egypt in 47BC

In their 80’s
Art Modell, owner (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens, Modells Stores) is 87

In their 60’s
Vint Cerf, American Internet pioneer, Turing Award laureate is 69
Ted Shackelford, Oklahoma City Oklahoma, actor (Gary-Dallas, Knots Landing) is 66
Clarence Thomas, Savannah Ga, 108th US Supreme Court Justice is 64

In their 40’s
Selma Blair, American actress (Cruel Intentions, Legally Blonde) is 40

Today’s Obits                                                           
Shana Alexander, American columnist dies of cancer in 2005 at 79
Werner Best, German jurist and Nazi leader dies in 1989 at 86
Peter Falk, American actor (Colombo) dies in 2011 at 83
Harriet, Galápagos tortoise dies in 2006 at 176
Ed McMahon, American television personality in 2009 at 86
John Mill, English theologian noted for his critical edition of the Greek New Testament 
                   in 1707 at 62
Maureen O'Sullivan, Irish actress dies in 1998 at 87
Jonas Salk, biologist (Polio vaccine), dies of heart failure in 1995 at 80
Aaron Spelling, American television producer dies in 2006 at 83

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Brain Game: Close Up Picture

What is the answer?
18 peppers
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.     Dark Stain: Mark Twain
2.     Mormon sailor: Norman Mailer
3.     Plain Boston: Jane Austin
4.     Dame’s voice: James Joyce
5.     Villain promise: Dylan Thomas
6.     Sharper Key: Harper Lee
7.     Villa blather: Willa Cather
8.     Tall fellow: Saul Bellow
9.     Yon Beaver: John Cheever
10.  Tan mice: Ann Rice
11.  Cycle titan: Michael Creighton
12.  Mules turn: Jules Verne

4X4 boxes
PERK
ELAN
RACE
KNEE
Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site has mistakes and sadly once out the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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