May 20,
2021 Week: 20 Day:
140
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local: H 71°\ L 42° |
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Wind: 9mph/ Gusts: 17mph EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 298mi Nearest Lightning: 294mi. |
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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
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National Playground Safety Week
Link |
Thru
30 |
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Cannes
Film Festival |
11-22 |
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EMS (Emergency Medical
Services) Week Link National
Medical Transcription Week Link |
16-22 |
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National Foul Ball Week |
16-21 |
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17-23 |
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Health Information
Professionals Week Link |
18-24 |
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Fleet Week (NY) |
20-26 |
Today’s Observations
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 6th 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.
