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Jun 22, 2021 Week: 26
Day: 173 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5% very hazy from
fires |
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Local: H 86°\ L 52° |
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Wind: 10mph/ Gusts: 19mph |
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EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 30mi Nearest Lightning: 567mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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There are two ways of
spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. Edith Wharton |
Random Tidbits
The health benefits of
rice include its ability to provide fast and instant energy, regulate and
improve bowel movements, stabilize blood sugar levels, and slow down the aging
process, while also providing an essential source of vitamin B1 to the human
body. Other benefits include its ability to boost skin health, increase the
metabolism, aid in digestion, reduce high blood pressure, help weight loss
efforts, improve the immune system and provide protection against dysentery,
cancer, and heart disease.
Humor: Robots
Whatever you do, don’t upset Sophia!
It’s pretty clear that robots are not perfect. Still, they’re not
going anywhere. After all, they’re here to serve us, right? Take Sophia, a
social humanoid robot developed by Hanson Robotics. She/it has the face of an
attractive woman and the ability to hold a conversation, much like Apple’s
Siri, making her/it eerily human-like. When CEO David Hanson and Sophia
appeared on CNBC’s The Pulse, he himself asked the AI what was clearly on the
mind of many people in that studio: “Sophia, do you want to destroy humans?”
Without hesitation, Sophia—smiling a tad too broadly for our taste—responded,
“OK, I will destroy humans.”
True Things
Inexplicable
Natasha Harris of
Lillian, Alabama, called the Baldwin County Sheriff's office on Feb. 28 after
her granddaughter's pet goat, Billy the Kid, returned home from one of his
frequent adventures around their rural neighborhood painted from head to toe.
Harris told Fox 10 News she suspected local teens had stolen and abused the
goat, but investigators followed the goat's trail to Erica Farmer, who was
visiting relatives nearby, and arrested her for theft of property and animal
cruelty. Farmer has since apologized for dying the goat with colored shampoo
and food coloring, and Harris now wants the charges dropped, telling the
district attorney's office, "I'm really sorry for wasting your time."
[Fox 10 News, 3/2/2021]
Weekly Observations
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National Week of Making Link Waste and Recycling Workers Week Link |
17-23 |
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Animal
Rights Awareness Week Link Link |
20-26 |
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Old Time Fiddlers Week |
21-26 |
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National
Insect Week |
21-27 |
Today’s Observations
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HVAC
Technicians Day Link Positive
Media Day Link |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Had a quick tooth cleaning today. All good. The billing is still
all crazy, but I did pay the amount that was on my EOB from Blue Cross. The dentist
office tried to get all the money on the bill, not what I owed. I just stood
there while she punched buttons until the number matched the EOB. The hygienist
is moving to Phx so next time it’s a new hygienist…maybe it is time to change dentists.
I stopped at the bank on the way to the Dentist. The ATM was being
worked on by the company. On my return trip, I stopped again. Waited for 3
cars, pushed all the right buttons, and got a message that there was a ‘technical
error’. Tried again, same thing. Just came home.
Good news for players in the NCAA. Athletes can now earn relatively
modest payments. It’s about time. The colleges and universities make millions
every year from their athletes. It is only fair.
There are so many wildfires in AZ it is hard to keep up. While
driving home the radio had an alert for the people about 15 miles south of me
to SET status on a fire that just started yesterday. Instead of fighting in
Congress, they need to get more money for fire prevention to the western states.
Most fires have been on Federal land. The entire Coconino National Forest, the
largest pine forest in the US, will be CLOSED at 8a Wednesday morning. They are
currently in the process of notifying campers to leave. I hope it works.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
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All All WORLD All All |
PERSO NALITY |
Historical Events
1633 – The Holy Office in Rome forced Galileo Galilei to
recant his view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
1937 – Joe Louis won the world heavyweight boxing title when he
defeated Jim Braddock.
1950 – The publication Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence
in Radio and Television listed many suspected communists in American media,
including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Lena Horne, Pete Seeger, Artie
Shaw, and Orson Welles.
1969 – Cleveland, Ohio’s Cuyahoga River caught fire.
1978 – Pluto’s Moon Charon was discovered by James W. Christy, at the
Naval Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
2009 – Eastman Kodak Company announced that it would discontinue sales
of the Kodachrome Color Film.
2011 After hiding for 16 years, Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is arrested
outside an apartment in Santa Monica, California
2015 South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley calls for the removal of the
Confederate flag from statehouse grounds in wake of killings in a Charleston
church
2020 US government data shows African Americans four times more likely
than whites to be hospitalized for COVID-19 highlighting racial disparities for
the pandemic
Birthdays Today
85 – Kris Kristofferson, American singer-songwriter, actor
72 – Todd Rundgren, American singer-songwriter
72 – Meryl Streep, American actress
72 – Elizabeth Warren, politician
69 – Graham Greene, Canadian [Oneida] character actor
68 – Cyndi Lauper, American singer-songwriter
48 – Carson Daly, American radio, television host
@22 – Freddie
Prinze, American actor (d.1977; suicide)
Puzzles Answer
All around the world Split
personality
