Jun 13

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Jun. 13, 2019 Week: 23 \ Day: 164

86004:   H 82° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 50% 

Nearest wildfire:  11mi. Nearest lightning:  890mi

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  11mph

Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 92°[1974]   Record Low: 36°[1976]

Jun Averages: 78°\42° (1 day with rain)

Today’s Quote

There are remarks that sow

and remarks that reap.

--Ludwig Wittgenstein

Random Tidbits

There are an estimated 400 million dogs in the world. About 83 million in the U.S. alone.

The smallest dog on record was a matchbox-size Yorkshire Terrier. It was 2.5" tall at the shoulder, 3.5" from nose tip to tail, and weighed only 4 ounces.

Zorba, an English mastiff, is the biggest dog ever recorded. He weighed 343 pounds and measured 8' 3" from his nose to his tail.

Observances This Week

Greencare For Troops Week: 9-15
National Automotive Service Professionals Week: 9-15 
National Right of Way Professionals Week: 9-15 Link 
National Flag Week: 9-15

Men's Health Week: 10-16 Link

Duct Tape Days: 13-15 Link

US Open Golf Championship: 13-16

National Nursing Assistants Week: 13-19  Link

National Hermit Week: 13-20

Observances for Today

Cupcake Lover’s Day

International Albinism Awareness Day
National Career Nursing Assistants Day Link
National Weed Your Garden Day

Random Acts of Light Link
Roller Coaster Day

Sewing Machine Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Another warm day for our mountain town…just glad I’m not living in boiling hot Phoenix.

The 13^th may be National Weed Your Garden Day, but as I was growing up my brother and I were relegated to weed the garden every few days. My mother was a big canner, and we had carrots, green beans, beets, squash, along with rhubarb, strawberries, and fruit trees. Kept everyone busy during the summer months. All that bounty was turned into Mason jars of veggies and lots of jelly and jam with paraffin lids. I don’t think I learned that people actually bought cans and jars of that until I started working at a grocery store. Great memories.

I was getting an ingrown toenail on my second toe. I headed out for a pedicure before it became too painful. All better now.

Something is happening at the only indoor mall here. It had 3 anchors, Penny’s, Sears, and Dillards. Sears closed last year. When I went to get my pedi, I walked the mall. Lots of stores by the food court and the closed Sears. At the other end is Penny’s. ½ the mall from Penny’s is closed stores. Sad to see it in such a bad way. I hope they find something exciting to put in all that empty space.

Keeping an eye on Hong Kong/China turmoil. I hope this doesn’t turn into another Tiananmen Square.  

PUZZLE OF THE DAY

Answer at the bottom of this page

You have a big bag of flour, two 5lbs weights, and an inaccurate balance scale. How can you measure exactly 10lbs of flour?

Today’s Significant Historical Events

1700’s

1774 Rhode Island becomes first colony to prohibit importation of slaves

1777 Leonard Norcross patents a submarine diving suit

1789 Mrs Alexander Hamilton serves ice cream for dessert to Washington

1800’s

1881 The USS Jeannette, under the command of George Washington De Long, sinks in the Arctic circle following 21 months of drifting after becoming trapped in the ice

1886 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Vancouver, British Columbia

1888 US Congress creates Department of Labor

1900’s

1920 US Post Office says children cannot not be sent by parcel post (after various instances)

1922 Longest recorded attack of hiccups begins: Charlie Osborne gets the hiccups and continues for 68 years, dies 11 months after it stops

1927 Ticker-tape parade welcomes Charles A Lindbergh to NYC

1933 German Secret State Police (Gestapo - Geheime Staats Polizei) established by Hermann Goering

1942 US Office of Strategic Services (OSS) formed

1954 Cornerstone of Albert Einstein College of Medicine laid in Bronx

1966 US Supreme Court's Miranda decision; suspects must be informed of rights

1967 Thurgood Marshall nominated as 1st African American Supreme Court justice

1971 "The New York Times" begins publishing excerpts from the Pentagon Papers, classified documents on the long history of the U.S. in Vietnam

1979 Sioux nation receives $100 million in compensation for Black Hills, South Dakota

1980 UN Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

1981 Tom Snyder interviews Charles Manson on "Tomorrow"

1990 Boeing 767 sets non-stop commercial flight, Seattle to Narobi Kenya

1994 A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blames recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages

1996 Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents

2000’s

2000 President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

2006 The US Senate issues a formal resolution apologizing for failure to create anti-lynching legislation

2007 First large scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth

2017 Otto Warmbier returns to the US in an unresponsive state after being held in Norther Korean jail for 17 months,

2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion tonnes a year, 3 trillion tonnes in 25 years, in report published in "Nature" journal

2018 Volkswagen fined €1 billion (£880m) by German prosecutors over diesel emissions scandal

Birthdays Today

1865 W. B. Yeats,

(d. 1939: @73)

Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923),

born in Sandymount, Ireland

1892 Basil Rathbone,

(d. 1967: @75: heart attack)

South African born British actor (Sherlock Holmes),

born in Johannesburg, South Africa

1910 Mary Wickes,

(d. 1995: @85)

American actress (Dennis the Menace, Sister Act),

born in St. Louis, Missouri

1911 Luis Alvarez,

(d. 1988: @77: cancer)

American physicist (subatomic particles, Nobel 1968),

born in San Francisco, California

1913 Ralph Edwards,

(d. 2005: @92)

American TV host (This is Your Life),

born in Merino, Colorado

1926 Paul Lynde,

(d. 1982: @55: heart attack)

American comedian and actor

(The Hollywood Squares, Uncle Arthur-Bewitched),

born in Mt Vernon, Ohio

1928 John Nash,

(d. 2015: @86)

American mathematician (subject of movie "A Beautiful Mind"),

Nobel laureate,

born in Bluefield, West Virginia

80’s

84-  Christo [Javacheff],

Bulgaria, artist, wrapper (Running Fence)

60’s

66- Tim Allen,

Canadian comedian (Home Improvement, Jungle2Jungle),

born in Denver, Colorado

50’s

57- Hannah Storm,

sports journalist (CNN, NBC)

55- Kathy Burke,

English actress and playwright

(Absolutely Fabulous, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy),

born in London, England

30’s

38- Chris Evans,

American actor (Captain American, Human Torch-Fantastic Four),

born in Boston, Massachusetts

Historical Obits Today

80’s

@82-2014 Chuck Noll,

NFL head coach (Pittsburgh Steelers)

@81-2010 Jimmy Dean,

American country music singer, television host, actor, and businessman (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever)

@81-1989 Fran Allison,

actress (Kukla, Fran & Ollie)

70’s

@77-1986 Benny Goodman,

clarinetist/bandleader (King of Swing),

dies of heart attack

60’s

@65-1871 Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin,

French magician and father of modern magic,

dies of pneumonia

50’s

@58-2008 Tim Russert,

American television host, NBC News Meet the Press moderator,

dies coronary heart disease

Puzzle answer:

Put both weights on one side, then fill the other side with flour so that the scale balances out. Then remove the weights and replace them with flour so that the balance scale is balanced again. The amount of flour you put there is exactly 10lbs.