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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 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
