May 11

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May 11, 2020 Week: 20 Day: 132

86004: H 81° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%

Wind: 5mph\Gusts: 10mph Visibility: 10 mi

Nearest lightning: 121mi.; Nearest active fire: 494mi.

Low Risk of Fire

Record High: 86°[1996] Record Low: 16°[1933]

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

Today’s Quote

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry,

but by demonstrating that all peoples cry,

laugh, eat, worry, and die,

it can introduce the idea that if we try

and understand each other,

we may even become friends."

— Maya Angelou

Random Tidbits

Before they were famous

“Hamilton” creator Lin-Manuel Miranda was working as a substitute at his alma mater, Hunter College High School in New York when the school offered him a permanent job. "Hunter had asked me to stay on to continue to teach part-time," he said in an interview. But his dad helped talk him out of taking it. He said his dad wrote him a letter that explained his own decisions as a young man: “I really want to tell you to keep the job — that's the smart 'parent thing' to do — but when I was 17, I was a manager at the Sears in Puerto Rico, and I basically threw it all away to go to New York, [and] I didn't speak a lot of English. It made no sense, but it was what I needed to do.”

Have a smile

A friend sent these to me

I spent the whole day talking with a dolphin.
It was great. We just clicked.

Question: Why did the Pony ask for water?
Answer: He was a little horse (hoarse)

Observations This Week

Ramadan: 23-5/23

(World) Dystonia Awareness Week: 3-11 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 
Brain Injury Awareness Week: 11-17 Link
National Etiquette Week: 11-15  
National Stuttering Awareness Week: 11-17
Work At Home Moms Week: 11-17 
American Craft Beer Week: 11-17 Link

Observations for Today

Accountant's Day or Accounting Day: 11 Link Moved to September 21 due to COVID-19 

Hostess Cupcake Day Link
National “Eat What You Want” Day

National Foam Rolling Day Link (Massage)
National Women's Check-up DayLink
Root Canal Appreciation Day

Twilight Zone Day

My Rambling Thoughts

Cloudy Sunday, maybe some rain...sure hope so. Just got an alert on my phone that lightning is close. Really hoping for some rain.

I sure enjoyed reading all the Mother's Day posts on Facebook. I miss my mom, but she had a nice life of 89 years. The only time she ever lived alone was after my dad passed. She lived with her parents, got married at 19, stayed with her parents during 'The War', and then with my dad. She adjusted well to living alone, but one day decided to move into a retirement community. She had a 1 bedroom apartment but ate in the dining room and took advantage of all the social gathering. She had a good life.

During this pandemic, I sometimes forget that there are thousands of border detainees being held in cages. Just saw an article that AZ is still holding hearings for its juvenile (4-17 year old) detainees. All hearings are now done by video conference while the detainee is in detention and the judge, wearing a mask is miles away in an empty courtroom. The judge determines if the case is dismissed, postponed, or the juvenile is deported. One judge did 17 cases in 2 hours. Most detainees do not have a lawyer, a few have a lawyer on the phone but not part of the video conference. Our government moved to not allow a lawyer on a phone. Thankfully it was overruled. The only part of the hearing that is directly translated to the child are the direct questions and answers. The other parts of the hearing procedures are not translated for the child. At the present time there are 94,000 minors awaiting a court hearing. THERE HAS TO BE A BETTER WAY.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What goes in the water black and comes out red?

Historical Events

868 - The first known dated printed book was the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist scripture. A citation included : "printed on 11 May 868, by Wang Chieh, for free general distribution".

1811 - The famous Siamese twins, Chang and Eng, were born of Chinese parents in Siam (now Thailand).

1942 - Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner, was published

1947 - B.F. Goodrich Co. announced the development of tubeless tire.

1949 - The first Polaroid cameras were sold for $89.95.

1950 - Evelyn and Paul Trent took the McMinnville UFO photographs

1965 Ellis Island added to Statue of Liberty National monument

1980 - Bob Marley died from lung cancer

1989 US President George H. W. Bush orders nearly 2,000 troops to Panama

1997 - IBM's supercomputer Deep Blue defeated chess champion Garry Kasparov.

2002 Her Royal Highness Princess Margriet of the Netherlands unveils the Man With Two Hats monument in Ottawa and Apeldoorn (May 2), 2000, symbolically linking both the Netherlands and Canada for their assistance throughout the Second World War.

2007 Pope Benedict XVI canonizes the first Brazilian-born saint, Frei Galvão

2012 Chinese scientists break world record by transferring photons over 97 kilometers using quantum teleportation

2015 Record price for a work of art at auction: Picasso's The Women of Algiers (Version ‘O’) sells for US$179.3 million at Christies in New York

2018 Most popular names in the US for 2017 revealed as Emma for girls, Liam for boys

2019 Carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere hit levels not seen for 3 million years at 415 parts per million, according to the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

Birthdays Today

@83-Artist Salvador Dali (d. 1989)

79-Singer, Eric Burdon (The Animals)

Puzzle Answer:

Lobster

I didn't know this and still question it.