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Jun 1, 2020 Week: 23 Day: 153
86004: H 83° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind: 8mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest lightning: 167mi.; Nearest active fire: 96mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 88°[1977] Record Low: 24°[1923]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"Many of life's failures are people
who did not realize how close they were
to success when they gave up."
-Thomas A. Edison
Random Tidbits
“Mary Had a Little Lamb” is based on a true story
Mary was indeed a real person and she did in fact have a little lamb. Mary Sawyer was born in 1806 and her lamb followed her to school one day around 1816. When Mary arrived at school, she wrapped the lamb in a blanket that she placed at her feet until it made a noise, informing the teacher of its company. John Roulstone had just arrived in town and witnessed Mary sneaking the animal into school, so he wrote a poem about the incident and delivered it to Mary. See some more weird facts most people don’t know.
Have a smile
True conversations while flying
Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!"
Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"
Observations This Month
Adopt-A-Cat
Month Link Link
Adopt
A Shelter Cat Month
African-American
Music Appreciation Month Link
Alzheimer's
and Brain Awareness Month Link
Antiphospholipid
Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS) Link
Audio
Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful
in Your Skin Month Link
California
Avocado Month Link
Cancer
From The Sun Month
Caribbean-American
Heritage Month
Cataract
Awareness Month
Celibacy
Awareness Month
Child
Vision Awareness Month
Children's
Awareness Month
Observations This Week
National
Backyard Games Week: 25-6/1
Black Single Parents Week: 28-6/3
Hemp
History Week: 1-7 Link
Observations
for Today
Baby
Boomers Recognition Day
CNN Day
Dare
Day
Global
Day of Parents Link
Heimlich
Maneuver Day
International
IGBO Day
International
Table Top Day Link Canceled
due to COVID-19
National
Dare Day Link
National
Go Barefoot Day
National
Hazelnut Cake Day
National
Nailpolish Day Link
National
Olive Day Link
National
Pen Pal Day Link
National
Thank God It's Monday Day
Oscar
The Grouch Day Link
Say
Something Nice Day Link
Stand
For Children Day Link
Superman's
Birthday (Comic Book)
World
Milk Day Link
World
Narcissistic Abuse Day Link
World
Reef Awareness Day Link
My Rambling Thoughts
Ready for a new month. The time from March to June seems like a whole year. The college students, my next door neighbors, have moved out. The three were geology students and are now heading out into the real world.
I watched the live docking at the space station. Again, it was awesome. Each time it is an amazing scientific achievement. I still hate parallel parking, on earth, at a very low speed.
I understand that the destruction in so many US cities is a very difficult undertaking for law enforcement. Just dismayed that they use tear gas and/or rubber bullets on the media when the only people in the line of fire are media with badges. I get shooting those non-lethal projectiles into unruly crowds that are not following police orders.
It is hard to understand the frustration of people that leads to vandalism. This morning on CNN they gave some frightening statistics that helped me understand. Look at the statistics of minority deaths by police; minority incarceration; length of sentences given to minorities; minority arrests and compare that to the same criteria for whites. Our judicial system is not treating whites and non-whites the same. A white college student is convicted of having drug paraphernalia on his person: 20 hours community service. A Black, the same age with the same paraphernalia: 5 years in prison.
The AZ governor just issued a statewide curfew of 8p to prevent further problems. The curfew starts tonight and lasts for a week. There was some looting in the Scottsdale suburb last night when demonstrations turned ugly. He has not yet called out the National Guard. So much for my late night partying this week. Haha.
Flagstaff received a little over $1million from the CARES Act. The council just gave grants to many local organizations to assist the most vulnerable in our city. Cool.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
There are five identical looking bags of gold coins. Four of the bags contain coins made of real gold and one of the bags contains coins made of fool’s gold.
All of the coins in all of the bags look identical. They are the same size, color and shape. The only difference is their weight. Real gold coins weigh 10 grams and coins made of fool’s gold weigh 11 grams.
You have an accurate scale that you can use only one time to determine which bag contains the fool’s gold. How do you do it?
Historical Events
495 - John Cor made a note referring to the first known batch of Scotch whiskey.
1215 Beijing, under control of Jurchen ruler Emperor Xuanzong of Jin, is captured by the Mongols under Genghis Khan, ending the Battle of Beijing
1792 Kentucky admitted as 15th US state
1813 - James Lawrence, the mortally-wounded commander of the USS Chesapeake, gave the now famous line: "Don't give up the ship!"
1831 - James Clark Ross discovered the Magnetic North Pole.
1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1843 Sojourner Truth leaves NY to begin her career as antislavery activist
1886 - Thomas Edison received his first patent (#90646). It was for an "electrographic vote recorder."
1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition opens in Portland, Oregon
1946
- The BBC started to grant television licenses, for legal access to
broadcast TV, costing £2 annually.
1947 - The Doomsday Cock
first appeared, on the cover of Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists. It was initially s et at 7 minutes until midnight.
1961 - Regular FM stereo radio broadcasting with a multiplexed signal began in Schenectady, NY, on WGFM.
1962 SS officer Adolf Eichmann is executed in Israel after being found guilty of war crimes
1965
(Explosion) A coal mine explosion in Fukuoka, Japan at the Yamano
mine killed 236 people.
1967 - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Hearts Club Band by the Beatles was released.
1968 -
Blind and Deaf popular icon Helen Keller died @87
1974 - The Heimlich maneuver, named after Dr. Henry Heimlich, was published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1979
- The Apple II Plus was released.
1980 - The Cable News
Network (CNN) began broadcasting
1991- The Comedy Network
became Comedy Central
1994 - FX Network made its debut. It was
the first cable TV network owned by FOX.
2009 - General Motors
filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2017 US President Donald Trump announces the US is withdrawing from the Paris Climate Agreement
2018 US unemployment rate falls to 3.8%, lowest since 2000
Birthdays Today
@86-Actor Andy Griffith (d. 2012)
86-Actor, singer Pat Boone
83-Actor Morgan Freeman
47-Model
Heidi
Klum
39-Comedian
Amy Schumer
@36-Actor
Marilyn
Monroe
(d,1962; OD)
Puzzle Answer
Take one coin from the first bag, two from the second bag, three from the third bag, four from the fourth bag, and five from the fifth bag. If the weight on the scale ends in 1 you know its the first bag, 2 the second, 3 the third, 4 fourth, and 5 the fifth bag.
