Jun 19

 

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Jun 19, 2020 Week: 25  Day: 171

86004:   H 81° \ L 44° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  6mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning:  434mi.; Nearest active fire:  94mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1936]   Record Low: 25°[1972]

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

Today’s  Quote

"The greatest glory in living

lies not in never falling,

but in rising every time we fall."

-Nelson Mandela

Random Tidbits

Pablo Picasso, along with Georges Braque (1882-1963), is considered the inventor of the modern art movement called Cubism, a style that reduces subjects to geometric forms. The pair was influenced by Iberian sculpture, African masks, and Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne, among others.

Picasso was a child prodigy who could draw before he could talk. He was accepted to the School of Fine Arts when he was 13 years old. While most students completed their entrance exams in a month, he completed his in just one week.

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one.”  – Sid Caesar

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
National Week of Making: 17-23  Link
National Nursing Assistants Week: 18-25  Link

Observations for Today

Dollars Against Diabetes Day(s): Thru 21 Link

Free BSD Day Link
Garfield the Cat Day
Internat'l Day For The Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict
Juneteenth

National Flip Flop Day Link
 National Kissing Day

National Martini Day

National Watch Day Link
Sauntering Day

Take Back The Lunch Break Day Link 
Ugliest Dog Day Link  Link
Wear Blue Day Link
Work@Home Father's Day
World Sickle Cell Day Link
World Sauntering Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Nice weather continues. Happy camper here.

I updated the Focus Travel site with the new Tahiti itinerary. Looks like another Focus success. Ellie, Joe, and Arden have worked extremely hard to pull this off, as well as working to get our refunds. Much appreciated!

It is Juneteenth. Celebrate and learn the meaning behind it. It has to do with the freeing of the last slaves in Texas, years after the Emancipation Proclamation ending slavery in this country.

Our AZ governor just keeps dropping the ball. After refusing to require masks, then telling local governments they can’t override him, now he is giving the option of required masks to local governments in AZ. As our state keeps having rising numbers of positive cases, he just won’t take action. Sad. A week ago some of the Tribal Casinos in the Phoenix area opened with precautions, but decided yesterday to re-close as an employee died from Covid, probably infected at one of the open casinos.

Budget shortfalls are plaguing the AZ universities. Programs are being cut or closed…as for athletics…the NAU athletic staff will take a 4.6% pay cut as part of the $100million shortfall. UA cut their athletic staff salary by 20%; and ASU hasn’t announced their cuts yet.

Covid relief funding has yet to be distributed to any Native Tribes. A judge just ordered Treasury to release the $679million immediately, since it should have been distributed months ago. The tribes are suffering, and DC seems to just waiting for the rivers to stop flowing and the grass to dry up. So sad.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What four-letter when written in all capital letters can be read forward, backward or upside down, and can still be read from left to right?

Historical Events

1586(?) - English colonists leave Roanoke Island, and disappeared. The only clue found was the word "CROATOAN" carved into a tree.

1846 - The first officially recorded, organized baseball game was played under Alexander Cartwright's rules on Hoboken, New Jersey's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1.

1862 - The US Congress prohibited slavery in United States territories, nullifying Dred Scott v. Sandford.

1867 - The first running of the Belmont Stakes horserace in the US, the oldest of the three American horse races that constitute the Triple Crown.
1905 - The first nickelodeon theater opened in Pittsburgh, PA.

1910 - The first Father's Day was celebrated in Spokane, Washington.

1941 - Cheerie Oats, later renamed Cheerios, was invented.

1949 - The first ever NASCAR race was held at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

1952 - I've Got A Secret premiered on CBS

1953 - Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were executed for spying for the Soviet Union, at Sing Sing, in New York.

1999 At about 4:30 pm, Stephen King is hit by a car on the shoulder of Route 5, in Lovell, Maine. He would suffer numerous injuries, including a collapsed right lung, multiple fractures of his right leg, scalp laceration and a broken hip

2009 - The Apple iPhone GS was released.

2012 - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange requested asylum in London's Ecuadorian Embassy for fear of extradition to the US after publication of previously classified documents.

2019 Oklahoma writer Joy Harjo is named the first Native American US Poet Laureate by the Library of Congress

2019 US Senators receive a classified briefing on possible UFO sightings by the US Navy

Birthdays Today

@92-Actor Louis Jourdan (d. 2015)

@77-Comedian Moe Howard (d. 1975; lung cancer)

71-Actor Phylicia Rashad

58-Singer Paula Abdul
@37-Baseball star Lou Gehrig (d. 1941; ALS)

Puzzle Answer

NOON