May 26,
2021 Week: 22 Day: 146
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local: H 75°\ L 41° |
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Wind: 2mph/ Gusts: 10mph EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 256mi Nearest Lightning: 534mi. |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
You must be the change
you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Humor
Four women are driving across the country together, each one from a
different state: Idaho, Nebraska, Montana, and California. Shortly after the
trip begins, the woman from Idaho pulls potatoes from her bag and throws them
out the window. “What are you doing?” asks the Nebraskan.
“We have so many of these things in Idaho, I’m sick of looking at
them.”
A moment later, the gal from Nebraska pulls ears of corn from her bag
and tosses them from the window. “What are you doing?” asks the gal from
Montana.
“We have so many of these things in Nebraska, I’m sick of looking at
them.”
Inspired, the Montanan opens the car door and kicks the Californian
out.
Real Cities
Dull, Ohio is an unincorporated community in Van Wert
County, Ohio. Dull is 2.50 miles (4.02 km) west-southwest of Ohio City.
Dull was originally called McKee, and under the latter
name was laid out in 1879 by J. M. Dull and others. A post office was
established under the name Dull in 1880, and remained in operation until 1909
True Things
Seems Like a Lot of
Trouble
Authorities in Houston
charged former Bank of America employee Juan Esteban Ramirez on March 24 with a
second felony in connection with tricking young female customers into unlocking
their phones so he could steal nude photos of them. In both cases, Ramirez
allegedly took the phones to show the women how to look up information on their
bank accounts, but with the phones unlocked, he found and sent himself intimate
photos. In the second case, Ramirez also texted the woman, who felt threatened,
Harris County Assistant District Attorney Keaton Forcht told KPRC-TV.
"It's highly unlikely that these are the only two victims," he said.
[Click2Houston.com, 3/24/2021]
Weekly Observations
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National Playground Safety Week
Li`nk |
Thru
30 |
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Fleet Week (NY) |
20-26 |
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National African Violet Week |
23-29 |
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Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link |
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Undergraduate Research Week Link |
24-28 |
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Mule
Days Link (Moved from April) |
25-31 |
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Fleet Week (NY) |
26-31 |
Today’s Observations
Day of Vesak Link
National Blueberry Cheesecake
Day
National Chardonnay Day Link
National Cherry Dessert Day
National Paper Airplane Day Link
National Senior Health & Fitness Day Link
World
Lindy Hop Day
World
Otter Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
We had our weekly lunch early as Mary’s fraternal twin grandchildren
are graduating from 8th grade on Thursday in Phoenix. Good food and conversation at outdoor
sandwich shoppe.
I am used to reading about volcanoes in Iceland, not so much in the Congo.
Now the people of Congo are suffering from a very active volcano.
Air travel has been changed…forever. The hijacking of a plane flying
over Belarus with a Russian plane forcing them to land is frightening. They wanted
and got a journalist who had written some comments about the government of
Belarus. This seems beyond belief in every civilized country.
Watch out if you donate $$ on the internet machine. Both Dems and
Republicans have had campaigns recently that allow donations that become
recurring donations as the default. Talk about sneaky. The former Trump
campaign has had to refund $64million to doners who were unaware that their contribution
was a recurring donation…sometimes every month, others were every week.
Congress needs to get busy in making this illegal. The easiest way is to make a
clear button on the donation site where the doner opts in and chooses how often
they donate.
Back in my teaching days I was the sponsor of the yearbook for Tuba. It
is a challenging responsibility for sure. I was shocked when I saw the photos a
sponsor recently photoshopped photos of some 80 girls for ‘inappropriate’
individual photos at a high school. She did a bad job of photoshopping and
never contacted the students or the parents regarding her draconian interpretation
of ‘appropriate’ dress. She allowed the boy’s swim team to be in speedos. A
verbal apology and a refund of the cost of the yearbook is just the beginning.
A few days ago I mentioned that a local indigenous high school counselor
won the JFK Profiles in Courage Award for his work during the pandemic. This morning
there was a story about him on NPR. Turns out, I knew his family in Tonalea and
his younger siblings were students at Red Lake Day School where I worked. Cool.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
Anagram BEST RATING to get two five-letter words that are synonyms of
each other.
Historical Events
1293 (Earthquake) Kamakura, Kanagawa, Japan, killing about 30,000.
1869 – Boston University was chartered by the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts.
1896 – Charles Dow published the first edition of the Dow Jones
Industrial Average.
1897 – Bram Stoker’s Dracula novel began being sold in the UK.
1923 – The first 24 Hours of Le Mans was held and has since been run
annually every June.
1977 – George Willig illegally climbed the South Tower of New York
City’s World Trade Center.
1998 – The
Supreme Court of the United States ruled that Ellis Island, the historic
gateway for millions of immigrants, is mainly in the state of New Jersey, not
New York.
2000 Arthur C. Clarke is knighted "for services to
literature" at a ceremony in Colombo, Sri Lanka
2002 The
Mars Odyssey finds signs of large ice deposits on the planet Mars
2004 The New York Times publishes admission of journalistic failings,
claims its flawed reporting and lack of skeptism during buildup to 2003 Iraq
War helped promote belief that Iraq possessed large stockpiles of weapons of
mass destruction.
2012 Pope Benedict XVI's butler is arrested for allegedly leaking
confidential documents
2014 World Health Organization confirms that Ebola has reached Sierra
Leone
2018 Ireland votes to repeal their 8th amendment to allow legalized
abortion, 66.4% vote yes
2019 Nine
climbers die in a week on Mt Everest after overcrowding leads to a huge queue
to reach the summit
2020 Costa Rica becomes the first county in Central America to
legalize same-sex marriage
2020 J. K. Rowling begins publishing children's story "The
Ickabog" online in installments
Birthdays Today
@83 – Jack Kevorkian, pathologist, author, assisted suicide activist (d.
2011)
@81 – Peter Cushing, English actor (d. 1994)
76 – Lenny Kravitz, singer
@72 – John Wayne [Marion Robert
Morrison], actor (d. 1979;
stomach cancer)
73 – Stevie Nicks, American singer-songwriter
@64 – Al Jolson [Asa Yoelson], American singer, actor (d. 1950; heart attack)
@61 – Sally Ride, American physicist, astronaut (d. 2012; pancreatic
cancer)
Puzzle Answer
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