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Jun
7, 2020 Week: 24 Day: 159
86004:
H 74° \ L 44° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind:
12mph\Gusts: 19mph Visibility: 10 mi
Nearest lightning: 280mi.; Nearest active fire: 260mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Fire Weather Watch
Record High: 89°[1975]
Record Low: 24°[1954]
Jun Averages: 80°\43° (3 days with
rain)
Today’s Quote
"The way to get started
is to quit talking and begin doing."
-Walt
Disney
Random Tidbits
During the Cold War, over
11 million people died in various conflicts where the Americans supplied one
side and the Soviets supplied the other.
The Vietnam War (1959-75)
was the deadliest proxy war of the Cold War era. Over 3.5 million people died.
Have a smile
True conversations while flying
Tower: "Eastern 702,
cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on frequency 124.7"
Eastern 702: "Tower,
Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way, after we lifted off we saw some
kind of dead animal on the far end of the runway."
Observations This Week
Hemp History Week: 1-7 Link
Great American
Brass Band Week: 4-7 Link September 12 due to COVID-19
International Clothesline Week: 6-13
National
Lemonade Days: 6-13 Link August due to COVID-19
Bed Bug Awareness Week: 7-13
Black Single Parents Week: 7-13
Community
Health Improvement Week (CHI): 7-13 Link
End Mountain Top Removal Week: 7-13 Link
Nat'l
Automotive Service Professionals Week: 7-13
National Business Etiquette Week: 7-13
Nat’l Headache Awareness Week: 7-13 Link
Pet Appreciation Week: 7-13 Link
Observations for Today
Children's
Awareness Memorial Day
Daniel
Boone Day
National Animal Rights Day Link
National Cancer Survivors Day Link
National
Chocolate Ice Cream Day
My Rambling Thoughts
A
windy Saturday. I have been leaving some windows partially open all night for
the past few days. This morning at 5am I was wakened by the furnace. Had to
close the windows to finish my good night’s sleep.
Andy
and Faith are leaving tomorrow for a week+ in Indiana with her family. I will
be watering their trees and plants while they are gone. While he was explaining
the various hoses, we discovered a 2’ bull snake basking on the cement
driveway. It moved away quickly as we approached. I told Andy I wanted hazard
pay to be around his snakes.
DL
Hughley made a good point last night: Undisciplined police are placed in
minority neighborhoods; the good cops are in the more affluent areas. If the undisciplined
police were in the affluent areas, they would be fired. It is the same in some
large school districts…newly graduated teachers are assigned to minority
schools while the more experienced teachers are in more affluent areas.
Are
police unions part of the current situation? How many elected officials receive
money from police unions to not change the current laws regarding its members?
The
Navajo Gaming Commission announced that the 4 casinos on the Navajo Nation
would not open until Jul 5.
NAU
released its fall dates for instruction. Classes begin early on Aug. 12 and end
early, just before the Thanksgiving break. They are also making changes in
their dorms with more rooms as singles, more sanitizing stations, and doors
that are easier to open without touching them.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer
at the bottom of the page
There is a basket of fruit sitting on a
table. Inside the basket all but two are
grapes, all but two are apples and all but two are oranges. How many fruit are in the basket?
Historical Events
1494 Treaty of Tordesillas: Spain and Portugal divide the
new world along a meridian 370 leagues west of the Cape Verde islands, off the
west coast of Africa
1665 Great Plague of London: Samuel
Pepys writes in his diary of houses marked with a red cross in London's Drury
Lane, meaning somebody inside is infected with the plague and must be locked in
for 40 days or until death
1692 (Earthquake) Port Royal, Jamaica,
over 1,000 people were killed.
1753 - The British Museum was founded,
starting the with collections of Sir Hans Sloane.
1893 - Mohandas Gandhi committed his first act of civil disobedience.
1914 - The Alliance was the first
vessel to pass through the Panama Canal.
1954 - Rutgers Institute of Microbiology opened, it was the second
dedicated microbiology laboratory in the world.
1955 - The $64,000 Question debuted on CBS.
1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1962 - Credit Suisse (then known as Schweizerische Kreditanstalt) opened the
first drive-through bank, in Switzerland at St. Peter-Strasse 17, near
Paradeplatz in downtown Zurich.
1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for the assassination of US Senator Bobby Kennedy
1972 - Broadway - Grease (Musical)
opened
1976 - The Tribal Rites of the New
Saturday Night by journalist Nik Cohn was published in New York Magazine.
It was the inspiration for the film Saturday Night Fever.
1981 - The Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor during
Operation Opera.
1990 - Universal Studios Florida opened
in Orlando, FL.
1982 US President Ronald Reagan meets with Pope John Paul II at Vatican
City, Rome and later Queen Elizabeth II
2012 16th century archaeology remains
of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays first performed found
under a pub in London
2017 Suicide bombers attack Iranian
parliament in Tehran and the mausoleum of Ayatollah Khomeini killing 12, 1st
Islamic State attacks in Iran
2017 Earliest-ever evidence of Homo
Sapiens from Jebel Irhoud, Morocco unearthed by archaeologists published in
"Nature", at 300,000 years old
2018 Mars Curiosity Rover finds organic
matter, including methane, on Mars in studies published in journal
"Science"
2019
More than four million Venezuelans have left their country since 2015 due to
its economic crisis according to the UN
Birthdays Today
@85-Actor Jessica Tandy (d. 1994)
79-Singer Tom Jones
@78-Entertainer Dean Martin (d. 1995)
68- Actor Liam
Neeson
61-VP Mike Pence
@57-Musician Prince Rogers Nelson (d. 2016; OD)
46-Reality Show Edward Michael Bear Grylls
42-Actor Bill Hader
Puzzle Answer
Three, one grape, one apple and one
orange.
