May 10

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May 10, 2020 Week: 20 Day: 131

86004: H 81° \ L 44° \ Average Sky Cover: 35%

Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 275mi.; Nearest active fire: 418mi.

Extreme Risk of Fire

Record High: 82°[1934] Record Low: 19°[1953]

May Averages: 68°\34° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

"All we have to decide is what to do

with the time that is given us."

— J.R.R. Tolkien

Random Tidbits

Teachers before fame

“Angela’s Ashes” author Frank McCourt taught high school in New York for 30 years

Before he was a successful sitcom star, Andy Griffith was a mediocre music teacher. “

Kiss lead singer Gene Simmons once worked as a teacher. "I used to be a sixth-grade teacher in Spanish Harlem

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

The road to success is always under construction.”
– Lily Tomlin

Question:How was the camping trip?
Answer: it was in tents (intense)

Observations This Week

Ramadan: 23-5/23

(World) Dystonia Awareness Week: 3-11 Link
Children's Book Week: 4-10 
International Coaching Week: 4-10  Link
National Sun Safety Week: 4-10 Link
National WildflowerWeek: 4-10 
Peripheral Neuropathy Awareness Week: 4-10 Link
Screen-Free Week (Digital Detox Week): 4-10 Link
National Nurses Day and Week: 6-12 Link  Link
National Public Gardens Week: 8-17  Link
INVICTUS GAMES: 9-16  Link 
Universal Family Week: 10-16
Food Allergy Awareness Week: 10-16 Link
National Hospital Week: 10-16 Link
National Nursing Home Week: 10-17
National Police Week:  10-16
National Return To Work Week:  10-17
National Transportation Week: 10-16 
National Women's Health Week: 10-16 Link  Link
Reading is Fun Week:  10-17 Link 
Salute to Moms 35+ Week: 10-16 
Salvation Army Week: 10-17 

Observations for Today

Clean Your Room Day Link
Dia De La Madre
Mother's Day Link  Link
Mother's At The Wall Day National Hampster Day Link
National Lipid Day (Dyslipidemia)  National Liver and Onions Day

World Lupus Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Happy Mother's Day. I hope everyone has great memories of their mom.

The PPE portrait project is awesome. It takes a picture of a healthcare worker and makes a large laminated sticker to put on their PPE gown so patients will see a picture of the person without the mask and shield. The project was a big success during the Ebola crisis in Liberia and is now being done world wide. Very Cool.

Hamdy's wife posted a photo. She ordered toilet paper over the internet. She got a bunch of rolls with no center hole for placing them on the holder. Crazy.

I texted Lori, Bob Eckhardt's daughter, to check up. She retired a year ago as an RN. She has been busy making over 100 masks for her former hospital. Also the nurses who work have worked there have a virtual Happy Hour every Friday after work. Very Cool. Lori and all her family are doing fine during this crisis.

The city of Wheat Ridge has ordered face masks for businesses to give to their customers if they don't have one. There are only a few businesses open, and the city wants them to be safe. Very cool.

Shocked, dismayed and angry. A sacred Tipi was erected at Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence, Kansas for the graduates. The Native University, like all other Universities, is not having a normal graduation. Last night someone came on campus and burned the Tipi to the ground. A good grad school friend serves on their Board of Regents. There is no excuse for this blatant racism. I hope the perps are caught. From their FB post: Last night the graduation tipi at Haskell University (@hinuarts) was burned to the ground. Haskell Indian Nations University is the only intertribal Native American university in the country, and we see this as a spiritual attack on over 100 Indigenous nations. This act is unacceptable and should absolutely be considered a hate crime. We are in solidarity with those affected, including the graduates, their families, and the larger Indigenous community outside of Lawrence. We are working to mobilize a response and to find the individual or individuals responsible, including a possible reward for information leading to an arrest. 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

When is 1600 plus 25 and

1700 minus 35 the same thing?

Historical Events

Mother's Day in Mexico is a set date of May 10th every year, unlike most other countries where it lands on a Sunday.

1503 - Columbus stumbled across the Cayman Islands and dubbed them Las Tortugas, after the numerous sea turtles.

1860 - The discovery of two new elements - caesium (Cs) and rubidium (Rb), was announced by German chemists, Robert Bunsen and Gustav Robert Kirchhoff to the Berlin Academy of Scientists.

1869 - Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads completed the Transcontinental Railroad.

1877 - US President Rutherford B. Hayes has the White House's first telephone installed in the 'telegraph room.'

1879 - America's first archaeological society was formed in Boston Mass., the Archaeological Institute of America.

1893 - The Supreme Court of the United States rules in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable, not a fruit, under the Tariff Act of 1883. Scientifically, it is a fruit.

1924 - J. Edgar Hoover as named acting director of the Bureau of Investigation (now the FBI).

1941 Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess escapes to Britain to open secret negotiations with the Allies, parachuting into Scotland

1969 In an interview with the 'Belfast Telegraph' former Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O'Neill states: "if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants, ... They will refuse to have 18 children"

1975 - Sony's Betamax, the first home videocassette recorder, went on sale in Japan

1980 - The US Government gave Chrysler a $1.5 billion loan.

1993 Paul Cézanne still life painting sells for US$28,600,000 in NYC

1994 Nelson Mandela sworn in as South Africa's 1st black president

1994 - Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was sworn in as the first black president of South Africa.

2005 A hand grenade thrown by Vladimir Arutyunian lands about 65 feet (20 metres) from U.S. President George W. Bush while giving a speech to a crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia, it malfunctions and does not detonate

2008 Philippine court acquits Imelda Marcos in a 17-year-old case of 32 counts of illegal transfer of wealth totaling $863 million in Swiss bank accounts

2013 - One World Trade Center became the tallest building in the Western Hemisphere, at 1,776 feet.

2017 USGS releases a report saying that some glaciers in Montana have receded by 85% in the last 50 years

2017 US President Donald Trump shares classified information about ISIS plot with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in the Oval Office

2018 New record auction price for a Latin American artwork of $9.76 million for Diego Rivera's "The Rivals"

Birthdays Today

@88-Singer, Dancer Fred Astaire (d. 1987)

74-Singer Donovan [Donovan Philips Leitch]

@69-actor Nancy Walker [Anna Myrtle Swoyer] (d. 1992; lung cancer)

60- Singer, philanthropist Bono[Paul David Hewson]

42-Actor, comedian Kenan Thompson

38-Singer, songwriter Carrie Underwood (1983)

@21-bassist Sid Vicious [John Simon Ritchie] (d.1979)

Puzzle Answer:

When it is military time.