May 22,
2021 Week: 20 Day: 142
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local: H 58°\ L 29° |
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Wind: 11mph/ Gusts: 25mph Red Flag Day EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 225mi Nearest Lightning: 357mi. |
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May Averages: 68°/34° (3 days w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
Of all the
self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline
and poor health is probably the deadliest.
~Marilyn Ferguson
Random Tidbits
The average child in the
United States will wear down 730 crayons by his or her tenth birthday.
The scent of Crayola
crayons is among the twenty most recognizable to American adults.
Humor
What do you call 40 guys watching the Super Bowl on television?
The Detroit Lions.
Real Cities
Handsome Eddy, New York is a hamlet in Sullivan County,
New York
True Things
Wait, What?
As Jensen Karp, 41, of
Los Angeles, was pouring a second bowl of his favorite breakfast cereal,
Cinnamon Toast Crunch, on March 22, "something plopped out of the box. I
picked it up, and I was like, 'This is clearly a shrimp tail,'" he told
The New York Times. Karp looked into the box and saw another tail, both
encrusted in sugar. Karp took a picture, sent it to his wife, then contacted
General Mills. Then a friend suggested he take another look into the bag, where
he reported finding "shrimp skins-looking things, a small string,
something that resembled a pistachio, and finally, "small black
pieces" at the bottom that he fears are rat feces. Karp is having the
samples tested at a lab. "I'm a comedy writer, but like, there's no joke
here," he said. "I love Cinnamon Toast Crunch." General Mills
says it's looking into the matter, but "we can say with confidence that
this did not occur at our facility." [New York Times, 3/23/2021]
Weekly Observations
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National Playground Safety Week
Link |
Thru
30 |
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Cannes
Film Festival |
11-22 |
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EMS (Emergency Medical
Services) Week Link National
Medical Transcription Week Link |
16-22 |
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Health Information
Professionals Week Link |
18-24 |
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Fleet Week (NY) |
20-26 |
Today’s Observations
Canadian Immigrants Day
Harvey Milk Day
International Day for Biological Diversity
International Heritage Breeds Day Link
Julia Pierpont Day
National Craft Distillery Day Link
National Maritime Day
National Vanilla Pudding Day
NF2 Awareness Day Link
Sherlock Holmes Day Link
US Colored Troops Day
World Goth Day Link
World Paloma Day Link
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
It’s a very windy day. It blew in a little rain this morning and I’m
hoping it brings more. Right now, it is just lots of wind, drying out the land.
It is also blowing around lots of pine needles, pods, and trash.
Student Loan Debt has been in the news lately. Here is stat I just
stumbled upon: Student Loan Debt for people over 50 years old is $289.5billion.
Fifteen years ago that age group student loan debt was $47billion. This is from
AARP.
Happy to read that the cease fire between Israel and Gaza is holding
after 11 days of bombing.
A local newspaper guy wrote this: He shakes the house and moans
through cracks. Trees in the yard creak and branches rake gutters in deadly
tones with his passing. Unsettled bones, gritted teeth, mood bent. Uneasy sense
that something’s wrong, dark enemies massing. But it’s just the Mountain Wind’s
song. He’s a rude and vulgar gent. Thanks to Larry. Yep, that is today.
If the answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind…Flag is getting a lot
of answers today….thanks to Martha.
Daily Puzzle
Answer: bottom of the page
98. A man describes his daughters, saying, “They are all blonde, but
two; all brunette but two; and all redheaded but two.”
How many daughters does he have?
Historical Events
1455 – England’s War of the Roses began when the Yorkists defeated
King Henry VI’s Lancastrian forces at St. Albans.
1762 – Trevi Fountain was officially completed and inaugurated in
Rome.
1807 – A grand jury indicted former Vice President of the United
States, Aaron Burr, on a charge of treason.
1819 – SS Savannah left port at Savannah, Georgia, United States,
starting a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
1849 – Abraham Lincoln was issued a patent (#6,469) for “buoying boats
over shoals”.
1906 – Orville and Wilbur Wright were granted a patent (#821,393) for
their system of flight control.
1960 (Earthquake) Magnitude 9.5 in Chile killed 5,000 and left
2,000,000 homeless.
1992 – Johnny Carson hosted The Tonight Show for the last time
2017 – Twenty-two people were killed at an Ariana Grande concert in
the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing.
2018
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is questioned by members of the European
parliament in Brussels in wake of its security scandal
2019 UN General Assembly votes for a motion condemning UK occupation
of the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean and for them to reunite with nearby
Mauritius
2020 China unveils new national security legislation against Hong Kong
at its annual legislative session
Birthdays Today
83 – Richard Benjamin, American character actor and director
@71 – Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, British writer (d. 1930; heart attack)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (May 22, 1859 – July 7, 1930), the writer of
Sherlock Holmes, ingested a small amount of poison and kept increasing the
amount every day until he could no longer stand the ill effects. He stopped his
experiment after being stricken by “persistent diarrhea, severe frontal
headache, and great depression”
@69 –
Richard Wagner, German composer (d. 1883; heart attack)
@65 – Quinn
Martin, American screenwriter, producer (d. 1987; heart attack)
55 – Johnny Gill, American singer-songwriter
51 – Naomi Campbell, English model
Puzzle Answer
Three. A blonde, a brunette and a redhead
