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Jun 13, 2021 Week: 25
Day: 164 |
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Visibility: 10 miles Ave. Sky Cover: 5% |
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Local: H 85°\ L 47° |
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Wind: 8mph/ Gusts: 15mph |
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EXTREME Risk of Fire:
Active fire: 23mi Nearest Lightning: 382mi. |
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Jun Averages: 70°/42° (1 day w/moisture) |
Today’s Quote
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Parents were invented
to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. Ogden Nash |
Random Tidbits
A male and female wolf
that mate usually stay together for life. They are devoted parents and maintain
sophisticated family ties.
A wolf pack may contain
just two or three animals, or it may be 10 times as large.
Humor
In Seattle, you haven’t had enough coffee until you can thread a
sewing machine while it’s running.—Jeff Bezos
True Things
Awesome!
Snake
breeder Justin Kobylka of northeast Georgia has been breeding ball pythons for
eight years to achieve a bright golden yellow and white color combination, but
recently wound up with a snake bearing three smiley face emoji-looking markings
on its body. Kobylka told United Press International one in 20 of his snakes
sports a smiley face, but this was the first to have three faces. He sold it
for $6,000. [United Press International, 3/9/2021]
Weekly Observations
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National Lemonade Days Link |
5-13 |
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Westminster Dog Show Not open to the
public! Link |
12-13 |
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National Flag Week National Pet Wedding Week Link National Right of Way Professionals
Week Link National Waste & Recycling
Workers Week Link |
13-19 |
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National Hermit Week |
13-20 |
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Bartender of The Year Week Link |
14-17 |
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Meet A Mate Week |
14-20 |
Today’s Observations
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Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day Multicultural American Child
Day Poultry Days: 11-13 Link Race Unity Day |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
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Another hot day, with very
little breeze. Our local fire has grown to 6600 acres with 150 personnel is
now 20% contained. It is burning pine, juniper, grass, and brush. Our great
fire crews have extinguished another out-of-control illegal campfire just off
the road to Snow Bowl Ski area. Stupid people! I saw an interesting report on ‘Asian-American’
terminology. Prior to the 1960’s most were called ‘Oriental’. With the race
issues of the late ‘60’s, the Oriental population was still suffering from
WWII discrimination. They began protesting racial inequality and needed
greater numbers to be heard. That is when ‘Asian-American’ was coined to
include many more people…eventually even the Pacific Islanders. During this
time, the ‘new’ Asian-Americans became seen by many as a ‘model minority’.
They were seen to do well in math and the sciences, they were seen as super-achievers
in classes, they were seen wise in business, etc. This stereotype was incredibly
positive but also brought its own problems. Those who didn’t fit the stereotype
had very low self-esteem that led to high rates of suicide. Any stereotype is
inherently damaging to those who don’t fit the stereotype and if it is a
negative stereotype, there are no winners. The ‘lazy’ minority stereotype is
just as harmful as the ‘top scholar’ stereotype. Any racial stereotype is simply the way a
majority culture makes a category of ‘them’, who are not ‘us’. That is very
damaging. I learned this in my Linguistics training back in the 1970’s, but
John Oliver, of Last Week with John Oliver, did a very good and humorous
job of reminding everyone how damaging a stereotype can be. |
2 New Puzzles Everyday
Answer: bottom of the page
Switching to new puzzles. Each one is a common phrase.
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MIND MATTER
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Pro
mise |
Historical Events
1373 – Anglo-Portuguese Alliance between England (succeeded by the
United Kingdom) and Portugal is the oldest international agreement in the world
which is still in force.
1525 – Ex-Catholic priest Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora,
against the celibacy rule decreed by the Roman Catholic Church for priests and
nuns.
1774 – Rhode Island became the first of Britain’s North American
colonies to ban the importation of slaves.
1844 – A safe lock was patented by Linus Yale (#3,630)
1881 – The USS Jeannette was crushed in an Arctic Ocean ice pack.
1886 – Great Vancouver Fire destroyed much of the Canadian city.
1898 – The Yukon Territory was formed, with Dawson was chosen as its
capital.
1927 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh received his famous ticker-tape
parade down 5th Avenue in New York City.
1962 – Stanley Kubrick’s controversial Lolita was released.
1966 – The United
States Supreme Court ruled in Miranda v. Arizona that the police must inform
suspects of their rights before questioning them. It is a bit more detailed
than what police say in most televised crime dramas.
1971 – The New York Times published the Pentagon Papers.
1994 – A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, blamed recklessness by Exxon and
Captain Joseph Hazelwood for the Exxon Valdez disaster, allowing victims of the
oil spill to seek $15 billion in damages.
1996 Montana Freemen surrender after an 81-day standoff with FBI
agents
2000 South Korean President Kim Dae Jung meets leader of North Korea
Kim Jong-il, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the
northern capital of Pyongyang
2007 First large
scale exhibition of Mexican artist Frida Kahlo's work in Mexico opens at
Palacio de Bellas Artes on the 100th anniversary of her birth
2018 Antarctica is melting at an accelerating rate - 200 billion metric
tons a year, 3 trillion metric tons in 25 years, in report published in
"Nature" journal
2019 Archaeologists
announce Scottish crannogs (fortified settlements on artificial islands in
lochs) far older than first thought, radiocarbon dated to 3640-3360 BC, older
than Stonehenge
Birthdays Today
@75 – Basil Rathbone,
South African-born British-American actor (d. 1967; heart attack)
70 – Richard Thomas, American actor
68 – Tim Allen, American comedic actor
@55 – Paul Lynde,
American actor and comedian (d. 1982; heart attack)
@53 – Katharina von
Bora, wife of Martin Luther (d. 1552; fall)
40 – Chris Evans, American actor
35 – Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen, child actors, fashion designers, businesswomen
Puzzles Answer
Mind over matter Broken promise
