Jun 16

 

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Jun  16, 2020 Week: 25  Day: 168

86004:   H 81° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   10mph\Gusts:  18mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning:  206mi.; Nearest active fire:  104mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1940]   Record Low: 24°[1907]

Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)

Today’s  Quote

"It is during our darkest moments

that we must focus to see the light."

-Aristotle

Random Tidbits

Israel Isidore Baline was born May 11, 1888 in Mohilev, Russia. In the early 1890s, Berlin's parents moved their family of eight (Israel, who was 5 at the time, was the youngest of six) from Russia to New York City's Lower East Side. He went by Izzy in America in an attempt to assimilate, and when his first composition was printed, it bore the name "I. Berlin."

He had no formal musical training.

Despite Berlin's incredible songwriting success, he was neither classically trained nor educated in music theory. He only knew how to play the piano in F sharp, so in order to write songs that didn't all sound the same, he bought transposing keyboards. These special keyboards changed the key, allowing him to play the same notes but produce different sounds. Berlin also paid music secretaries who notated and transcribed his music.

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

Question: Why is ‘dark’ spelled with the letter K?

Because you can’t -c- (see) in the dark!

 

I accused my wife of adding dirt to the garden.

She denied it.

The plot thickens...

Observations This Week

National Hermit Week: 13-20
Animal Rights Awareness Week: 14-20  Link  Link
Greencare For Troops Week: 14-20
National Little League Week: 14-20   Link Canceled due to COVID-19
National Play Catch Week: 14-20 
National Pet Wedding Week:14-20  Link
National Right of Way Professionals Week: 14-20 Link 
National Flag Week: 14-20 
National Waste & Recycling Workers Week: 14-20  Link 
Bartender of The Year Week: 15-18  Link
Meet A Mate Week: 15-21
Men's Health Week: 15-21 Link   Link 
US Open Golf Championship: 15-21 (Note: Canceled due to the COVID19 )
Royal Ascot: 16-20 Link Canceled due to COVID-19

Observations for Today

Bloomsday Link
Fudge Day Link
Ladies' Day (Baseball)

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice weather to start a new week. I was out at Andy’s to water plants before the wind starts. Nice. I’ve got a check up on my blood and a cavity to be filled this week. Life during Covid19. And AZ surpasses 1000 new cases a day.

Read this on the internet machine: If pants really caught on fire, the political news would be much more interesting.

Many saw the photo of the Black man carrying an injured white protester out of the crowd in London. I heard the rest of the story this morning: The Black guy and a few friends were at the protest for Black Lives Manner. The older white guy was demonstrating against the BLM demonstrators. When he fell, other protesters were trampling him. The guy broke through the crowd, scooped up the injured guy and carried him to nearby police. He, nor his friends, know who the injured guy is.  Being British he added: I wish American police could be more like we British.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A traveler comes to a fork in the road which leads to two different villages. In one village the people always tell lies, and in the other village the people always tell the truth. The traveler needs to meet someone in the village where everyone tells the truth.

A man from one of the villages is standing in the middle of the fork, but there is no indication of which village he is from. The traveler approaches the man and asks him one question. From the villager’s answer, he knows which road to follow. What did the traveler ask?

Historical Events

1816 - Lord Byron read 'Fantasmagoriana' to his four house guests - Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley, Claire Clairmont, and John Polidori, and inspired his challenge that each guest write a ghost story.
1858 - Abraham Lincoln gave his "a house divided against itself cannot stand" speech.
1884 - The first public roller coaster, LaMarcus Adna Thompson's "Switchback Railway" (patent #310,966) opened in New York's Coney Island amusement park.

1893 - Cracker Jack, invented by R.W. Rueckheim, was introduced at the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago's World Fair.

1903 - The Pepsi-Cola Co. registered the Pepsi-Cola trademark.
1903 - The Ford Motor Company was incorporated by Henry Ford and 11 investors.

1904 - Bloomsday is a commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during which the events of his novel, Ulysses, takes place.
1911 - IBM as founded as the Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company in Endicott, New York.

1961 - Dancer Rudolf Nureyev defected to the US from the Soviet Union.
1963 - Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space on Vostok 6.
1967 - The Monterey Pop Festival began.

2010 - Hot in Cleveland premiered on TV Land.

2017 US President Donald Trump reinstates Cuban travel and business restrictions after they were loosened by President Obama

2019 Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu admits to misuse of state funds in court

2019 India imposes retaliatory tariffs on 28 US goods

Birthdays Today

@82-Actor Barbara Stynwyck [Ruby Catherine Stevens] (d. 1990)
@74-Comedian Stan Laurel (d. 1965; heart attack)
@74-Actor Jack Albertson (d. 1981; colon cancer)
50-Golpher Phil Mickelson

@25-Rapper/Actor Tupac Shakur (d. 1996; shot)

Puzzle Answer

The traveler asked, “Which road goes to your village?”. He could then take the road the villager pointed to because a truthful person would point toward the truthful village, and the liar would also point to the truthful village since he is a liar and would not point to his own village.