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Jun 26, 2021 Week: 26
Day: 177 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 80% |
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Local: H 79°\ L 49° |
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Wind: 7mph/ Gusts: 14mph |
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High Risk of Fire: Active fire: 22mi Nearest Lightning: 102mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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Education is the
movement from darkness to light. Allan Bloom |
Random Tidbits
According to Forbes, the
top 9 most hazardous summer injuries are caused by 1) playground equipment; 2)
skateboards; 3) trampolines; 4) lawn mowers; 5) amusement attractions; 6)
non-powder guns, BBs pellets; 7) beach, picnic, camping equipment; 8) barbeque
grills, stoves, equipment; and 9) trimmers, small garden tools.
True Things
Devil's in the Details
Amazon released a new
icon for its shopping app in January with what was supposed to look like a
jagged piece of tape on a package above Amazon's smiling arrow logo but instead
reminded some viewers of Adolf Hitler's mustache, CBS News reported. After
Twitter users commented on the resemblance, Amazon tweaked the art and rolled
out a more squared-off version in late February. [CBS News, 3/3/2021]
Weekly Observations
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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 |
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American Library Week |
24-29 |
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World Hula Week Link |
24-26 |
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Watermelon Thump Seed
Spitting Week Link |
24-27 |
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Water Ski Days |
25-27 |
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Tour de France Link |
26- 7/18 |
Today’s Observations
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ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field Day
-27 Link Great
American Backyard Campout National Chocolate
Pudding Day |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Clouds are here and looks like rain. I sure hope so.
Hard to believe the collapse of the apartment building in Florida. When
I first videos came in, I thought it was happening in a war zone. I really hope
they find out the reason for this disaster. I was happy to see the US President
contacting the officials in Florida to promise quick and sustained help in
dealing with this.
Yesterday I commented on the officer killed in Arvada. Turns out my
travel buddy Ed was in Olde Town doing business when it happened. Glad he is
safe.
The fire south of Flagstaff is now at 36,000 acres and still slowly
growing. Both Flagstaff and Williams (30 miles away) have cancelled the annual
fireworks for the Independence Day holiday due to the condition of the forest.
Derrick Chauvin sentenced to basically 22.5 years in prison but
will probably bne out in 15 years. Sad.
I updated the Focus website with information on the memorial for
Marty. Be sure and check it out. For some unknown reason I couldn’t get on the
website to edit it when I tried to sign in. I called Ellie and she hadn’t
changed anything. I have the password and ID saved. After several more tries, I
discovered that internet machine somehow changed the ID from a ‘.net’ address
to a ‘.com’ address. I believe I fixed it, but am scratching my head how it
changed, since I never, ever type more than one letter of the ID before the ID
and password pop-up. Guess it was some demon or devil messing with me.
Today, the 25th, is Victory Day for the Lakota Sioux.
This is the day they defeated Custer at the Little Big Horn.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
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goodbe goodbe true |
cherry 3.14 |
Historical Events
1498 – The bristle toothbrush was invented in China.
1807 – Lightning struck a gunpowder factory in Luxembourg, killing
more than 300 people.
1819 – The first US patent (#X003115) for a velocipede, a predecessor
of the bicycle, was issued to William K. Clarkson Jr. of New York.
1870 – Christmas was declared a federal holiday in the United States.
1906 – 1906 French Grand Prix, the first Grand Prix motor racing event
was held. Ferenc Szisz, driving for the Renault team, won the two-day event.
1926 – Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises novel was
released.
1934 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Federal Credit Union
Act, which established credit unions in the US.
1936 – The first flight of the Focke-Wulf Fw 61, the first working
helicopter, in Berlin, Germany.
1945 – The United Nations Charter was signed, in San Francisco.
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy gave his “Ich bin ein Berliner”
speech.
1974 – The Universal Product Code was scanned for the first time to
sell a package of Wrigley’s chewing gum at the Marsh Supermarket in Troy, Ohio.
1977 – Elvis Presley performed the final concert of his life in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
1997 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Communications Decency
Act violated the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.
2000 – The completion of a working draft reference DNA sequence of the
human genome was announced at the White House by President Bill Clinton and
representatives from the Human Genome Project (HGP).
2015 US Supreme Court rules 5-4 same-sex marriage is a legal right
across all US states
2016 Panama Canal's third set of locks opens for commercial traffic,
doubling the Canal’s capacity at an estimated cost of $5.25 billion
2018 US Supreme Court upholds President Trump's travel ban against
mostly Muslim countries
2018 India is named the most dangerous country to be a women
because of sexual violence and slave labor by the Thomson Reuters Foundation
2020 New York Times says Russia secretly offered bounties to Taliban-linked
forces to kill US and coalition troops in Afghanistan
Birthdays Today
@87 – Colonel Tom
Parker, Dutch-American talent manager (d. 1997)
@80 – Pearl S. Buck,
novelist, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
@73 – Abner
Doubleday, American general; probably didn’t invent baseball (d. 1893; heart
failure)
@59 – Peter Lorre,
Slovak-American actor (d. 1964; stroke)
51 – Sean Hayes, American actor
47 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player
29 – Jennette McCurdy, American actress
28 – Ariana Grande, singer, actor
Puzzles Answer
Too good to be true Cherry
pie
