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May 20, 2021   Week: 20    Day: 140      

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 71°\ L 42°

Wind:  9mph/ Gusts:  17mph EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  298mi Nearest Lightning: 294mi.

May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Where facts are few, experts are many.

~Donald R. Gannon

Humor

 

An admiral is standing by a candy machine at the Naval Academy in Annapolis when he stops a plebe walking by. “Sailor, do you have change for a dollar?”

“Sure, buddy,” says the plebe, rooting around his pocket.

“That’s no way to address an officer! Now let’s try it again. Do you have change for a dollar?”

The plebe snaps to attention and barks, “No, sir!”

 

Real Cities

 

Cheesequake, New Jersey is an unincorporated community located within Old Bridge Township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States. Cheesequake is located along Route 34, south of Cheesequake State Park. The community's name has been said to be derived from the Lenni Lenape word "Cheseh-oh-ke", meaning "upland" or from the word "chickhake", meaning "land that has been cleared."

 

True Things

 

On March 17, police at the Charleston, South Carolina, airport rushed to meet United Airlines Flight 728 in response to a report that someone's ear had been bitten off on the plane, which had been diverted there from its flight from Newark, New Jersey, to Miami, The State reported. Passenger John Yurkovich Jr., 45, of New Jersey, had become "agitated" and "restless" after making a trip to the restroom, police said, then "began to scream and thrash around," punching his seatmate and apparently biting the man's ear, which later required seven stitches, an FBI report said. A doctor on board injected Benadryl into Yurkovich's buttocks to help subdue him, and others bound him with zip ties and a belt. Authorities said they found 1.5 grams of suspected meth in Yurkovich's pocket; he was arrested and faces state charges of possession as well as federal charges of assault. [The State, 3/19/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Playground Safety Week Link National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week Link	Thru 30
Cannes Film Festival	11-22
EMS (Emergency Medical Services) Week  Link   Health Information and Technology Week  Link International Heritage Breeds Week  Link   International New Friends, Old Friends Week National Eosinophil Awareness Week  Link   National Medical Transcription Week  Link National Transportation Week National Unicycle Week World Trade Week	16-22
National Foul Ball Week	16-21
National Bike to Work Week Link    PGA Championship Link	17-23
Health Information Professionals Week Link	18-24
Fleet Week (NY)	20-26

 

Today’s Observations

 

Be a Millionaire Day

Eliza Doolittle Day
Everybody Draw Mohammed Day Link
National Association of Psychometrist's Day Link
National Pick Strawberries Day

National Quiche Lorraine Day
National Rescue Dog Day  Link
Pick Strawberries Day

Stop The Bleed Day Link
Weights & Measures Day
World Autoimmune/Autoinflammatory Arthritis Day Link
       (World AiArthritis Day)  

World Bee Day Link

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Warm and nice outside. Had to do some laundry today.

This mask thing has me crazy. After well over a year wearing one every time I entered a business or was near a group of people, I find it hard not to wear a mask while shopping. When I go into a store, I’m masked…even when the store says I don’t have to be. Then I see someone barefaced and wonder if they are truly vaccinated or just anti-mask. I hope this fleeting thought will pass very quickly.

I’m not a fast-food lover. I decided to try the McDonald’s Crispy Fried Chicken Sandwich…I was good. I liked it better than Chick-Fil’s one. My last fast-food was about 8 months ago.

I have never had the chance to visit Washington DC. If I am to believe the Republicans in the House, I don’t think I will visit. They are claiming that the video from the Jan 6^th simply showed a typical day with visitors looking and staying behind the ropes. I have visited historical sites around the world and have never seen people breaking windows on their visits.

 

Daily Puzzle

Answer: bottom of the page

 

SingIe-handedly managed the successful upgrade and deployment of new environmental illumination system with zero cost overruns and zero safety incidents.

What was done?

 

Historical Events

 

1570 – Cartographer Abraham Ortelius issues Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, the first modern atlas.

1873 – Levi Strauss and Jacob W Davis patented (#139,121) copper-riveted jeans, designed to help prevent tears in the fabric.

1899 – The American Physical Society was founded at Columbia University.

1901 – Claude Grivolas patented (French) a projector for three-dimensional (stereoscopic) movies viewed wearing spectacles with one red and one blue lens.

1916 – The Saturday Evening Post published its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting – ‘Boy with Baby Carriage’.

1927 – US aviator Charles A. Lindbergh took off from Roosevelt Field on Long Island, New York, on the world’s first solo, nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean (New York to Paris.)

1949 – The Armed Forces Security Agency, the predecessor to the National Security Agency (NSA), was established.

1957 – Pilot Milton Torres was ordered to intercept a UFO over East Anglia, UK

1983 – First publication of the discovery of the HIV virus that causes AIDS in the journal Science by Luc Montagnier.

1993 – 80 million people watched the series finale of Cheers on NBC

1995 – Pennsylvania Avenue, in front of the White House, was closed to traffic.

1997 US President Clinton signs an executive order barring new US investment in Burma (also known as Myanmar), effective May 21 and renewable annually

2002 The independence of East Timor is recognized by Portugal, formally ending 23 years of Indonesian rule and 3 years of provisional UN administration (Portugal itself was the former colonizer of East Timor until 1976)

2013 The Church of Scotland votes to allow openly gay men and women to be ministers

2015 5 major world banks (JPMorgan, Barclays, Citigroup, RBS and UBS) fined US$5.7bn for manipulating currency markets - some of the largest ever fines

2019 Google stops support for Huawei's Android system in an escalation of the tech war between US and China

 

Birthdays Today

 

@89 – James Stewart, American actor (d. 1997)

75 – Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], American singer and actress

@71 – George Gobel, comedian (d. 1991; following heart surgery)

@70 – Joe Cocker, English singer-songwriter (d. 2014; lung cancer)

53 – Timothy Olyphant, American actor

49 – Busta Rhymes [Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr.], American rapper

 

Puzzle Answer

 

A lightbulb was changed.