Jun 13

 

 

 

Jun 13, 2021   Week: 25    Day: 164

Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5%

Local: H 85°\ L 47°

Wind:  8mph/ Gusts:  15mph

EXTREME Risk of Fire:  Active fire:  23mi Nearest Lightning: 382mi.

Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash

 

Random Tidbits

 

A male and female wolf that mate usually stay together for life. They are devoted parents and maintain sophisticated family ties.

A wolf pack may contain just two or three animals, or it may be 10 times as large.

 

Humor

 

In Seattle, you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a sewing machine while it’s running.—Jeff Bezos

 

True Things

 

Awesome!

Snake breeder Justin Kobylka of northeast Georgia has been breeding ball pythons for eight years to achieve a bright golden yellow and white color combination, but recently wound up with a snake bearing three smiley face emoji-looking markings on its body. Kobylka told United Press International one in 20 of his snakes sports a smiley face, but this was the first to have three faces. He sold it for $6,000. [United Press International, 3/9/2021]

 

Weekly Observations

 

National Lemonade Days Link	5-13
Westminster Dog Show Not open to the public! Link	12-13
National Flag Week National Pet Wedding Week Link National Right of Way Professionals Week Link National Waste & Recycling Workers Week Link	13-19
National Hermit Week	13-20
Bartender of The Year Week Link	14-17
Meet A Mate Week Men's Health Week  Link   Link US Open Golf Championship	14-20

 

Today’s Observations

 

Cupcake Lover’s Day Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day  Children's Sunday  International Albinism Awareness Day Lobster Day Multicultural American Child Day  National Doe B Day  Link National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day  Link National Weed Your Garden Day Poultry Days: 11-13 Link  Race Unity Day  Random Acts of Light Link Roller Coaster Day Sewing Machine Day

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another hot day, with very little breeze. Our local fire has grown to 6600 acres with 150 personnel is now 20% contained. It is burning pine, juniper, grass, and brush. Our great fire crews have extinguished another out-of-control illegal campfire just off the road to Snow Bowl Ski area. Stupid people! I saw an interesting report on ‘Asian-American’ terminology. Prior to the 1960’s most were called ‘Oriental’. With the race issues of the late ‘60’s, the Oriental population was still suffering from WWII discrimination. They began protesting racial inequality and needed greater numbers to be heard. That is when ‘Asian-American’ was coined to include many more people…eventually even the Pacific Islanders. During this time, the ‘new’ Asian-Americans became seen by many as a ‘model minority’. They were seen to do well in math and the sciences, they were seen as super-achievers in classes, they were seen wise in business, etc. This stereotype was incredibly positive but also brought its own problems. Those who didn’t fit the stereotype had very low self-esteem that led to high rates of suicide. Any stereotype is inherently damaging to those who don’t fit the stereotype and if it is a negative stereotype, there are no winners. The ‘lazy’ minority stereotype is just as harmful as the ‘top scholar’ stereotype.  Any racial stereotype is simply the way a majority culture makes a category of ‘them’, who are not ‘us’. That is very damaging. I learned this in my Linguistics training back in the 1970’s, but John Oliver, of Last Week with John Oliver, did a very good and humorous job of reminding everyone how damaging a stereotype can be.

2 New Puzzles Everyday

Answer: bottom of the page

Switching to new puzzles. Each one is a common phrase.

MIND MATTER

Pro                 mise

  

Historical Events

 

1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest international agreement in the world which is still in force.

1525 – Ex-Catholic priest Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and nuns.

1774 – Rhode Island became the first of Britain’s North American colonies to ban the importation of slaves.

1844 – A safe lock was patented by Linus Yale (#3,630)

1881 – The USS Jeannette was crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.

1886 – Great Vancouver Fire destroyed much of the Canadian city.

1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed, with Dawson was chosen as its capital.

1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh received his famous ticker-tape parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.

1962 – Stanley Kubrick’s controversial Lolita was released.

1966 – The United States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning them. It is a bit more detailed than what police say in most televised crime dramas.

1971 – The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers.

1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon and Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.

1996 Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI agents

2000 South Korean President Kim Dae Jung meets leader of North Korea Kim Jong-il, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang

2007 First large scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth

2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion metric tons a year, 3 trillion metric tons in 25 years, in report published in "Nature" journal

2019 Archaeologists announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older than Stonehenge

 

Birthdays Today

 

@75 – Basil Rathbone, South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967; heart attack)

70 – Richard Thomas, American actor

68 – Tim Allen, American comedic actor

@55 – Paul Lynde, American actor and comedian (d. 1982; heart attack)

@53 – Katharina von Bora, wife of Martin Luther (d. 1552; fall)

40 – Chris Evans, American actor

35 – Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, child actors, fashion designers, businesswomen

 

Puzzles Answer

 

Mind over matter                                                              Broken promise