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Jun 30, 2021 Week: 27
Day: 181 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 40% |
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Local: H 75°\ L 50° |
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Wind: 8mph/ Gusts: 4mph |
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Low EXTREME Risk of Fire: Active fire: 24mi Nearest Lightning: 12mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Random Tidbits
The moon is never really
full. The disk of the moon can only appear 100 percent sunlit from Earth when
it is diametrically opposite to the sun in the sky. But that, of course, is
impossible because at that moment the moon would be positioned in the middle of
the Earth's shadow and in total lunar eclipse. In fact, in any month where
there is no eclipse, there should be an ever-so-slight sliver of darkness
visible somewhere on the lunar limb throughout those hours when the moon is
passing through "full" phase; close inspection will usually reveal
that moon is not fully illuminated but is indeed gibbous or slightly out of
roundness.
True Things
Weird Animals
-- In Victoria, British
Columbia, photographer Tony Austin was out for a nature walk on May 31 when he
ran across an inexplicable sight: A murder of crows had landed close by, and
one was sort of flopping around in the dirt. "It would sort of ... hop
into the air and ... then hop back onto the gravel," Austin said. As
Austin grew nearer, he saw that the bird was covered with ants. He was
concerned for the bird's welfare, but when he posted a picture on a Facebook
page for bird enthusiasts, he was relieved, NPR reported. The crow was
"anting" -- spreading ants on its feathers and wings. Experts aren't
clear about why birds do this; it may be related to cleanliness or to share the
ants' defensive secretions of fungicides, miticides and insecticides. [NPR,
6/7/2021]
Idioms Origins
Dependability
An advertising guy named
Theodore MacManus started working for Dodge Cars in 1914.
Cars were new, lots of
things often went wrong with new technology, but he read positive letters that
came from Dodge Owners, and they used the ‘dependable a lot.
Based on that, he
invented the word ‘Dependability’.
Weekly Observations
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Tour de
France Link |
26- 7/18 |
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National
Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness |
27 -7/4 |
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Windjammer
Days Link |
27-7/3 |
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National
Tire Safety Week Link |
28-7/4 |
Today’s Observations
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Asteroid Day Leap Second Time Adjustment Day National Outfit Of The Day Day Link |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
First Monsoon today. Not a lot of rain but everything counts. I had
to remember that the wipers on my ride would remove the falling rain. For over
a year I have only used the wipers to clear the pollen from the windshield
before I started driving. Happy to find out they also work while I am driving.
I was hoping the Suns would end this part of the finals with a win.
It wasn’t in the cards. Their loss should excite them to play better.
It sure is looking like the Condo Association was lax in repairs
prior to the building collapse in Florida. They are throwing around a $5million
price tag that condo owners would have paid to fix the building. I also heard a
figure of $100,000 per unit to fix the infrastructure to the building. That is
a nice chunk of money that most residents would have had a hard time paying. I can
see the letter now:
Dear Resident of Condo # 615,
Over the past few years, we have kept your Condo fees low. We will
be raising your condo fee to fix some infrastructure issues we have been
avoiding to repair. Your previous monthly fee was $125/month. Your new monthly fee, beginning in July 2021, will be $$20,000/month until the repairs are paid for. We expect that to be in Dec. 2022.
Thank you for choosing these condos for your home.
Your elected Condo President
Climate change is getting real. The weatherman is running out of
adjectives to explain the current heat waves around the US. Words like ‘historic’,
‘unpresidented’, ‘unheard of..’, ‘never before seen’ are being overused. For a
while it was the South West area, now it is the North East and North West. I sympathize
with those in the new heat wave, at least the heat wave last month in the south
west was a ‘dry’ heat.
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
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ARREST UR |
WEAR UNDER |
Historical Events
1805 – The Michigan Territory was organized
1831 – A patent for a platform scale was issued to brothers Erastus
and Thaddeus S. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
1859 – Jean-Francois Gravelet, known as Emile Blondin, became the
first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Huxley-Wilberforce debate or
the Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford University Museum of Natural
History took place.
1886 – The United States Division of Forestry was recognized and
established by an Act of Congress
1894 – The Tower Bridge across the River Thames in London was
officially opened.
1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of
Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in
Annalen der Physik.
1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and
Pure Food and Drug Act.
1908 – The Tunguska Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia.
Destroying 830 square miles in Eastern Siberian Taiga. It was probably a big
meteor. Or was it?
1921 – President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William
Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolled off the assembly line in
Flint, Michigan.
1966 – The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded.
1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution,
reducing the voting age to 18, putting the amendment into effect.
1972 – The first leap second was added to the UTC time system.
1987 – Iran-Contra hearings aired during daytime television,
pre-empting most programming.
2019 – Donald Trump became the first sitting American President to
visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in the Demilitarized Zone (North
Korea).
Birthdays Today
@92 – Lena Horne,
American singer (d. 2010)
65 – David Alan Grier, American comedic actor
@62 – Harry
Blackstone Jr., magician, author (d. 1997; pancreatic cancer)
62 – Vincent D’Onofrio, American character actor
55 – Mike Tyson, American boxer
36 – Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer
35 – Alicia Fox, American wrestler and model
Puzzles Answer
You‘re under arrest long
underwear
