<> Tomorrow's food holidays(s):
* 'National Kitchen Klutzes of America Day'. . By definition: a clumsy,
awkward, or foolish person. Kitchen plus klutz, need I say more?
[The Hankster says] I thank Mr. Webster for not using my name as a synonym.
<> Other holidays / celebrations
* 'National Weed Your Garden Day'.
[The Hankster says] Yes, gardens need preventive maintenance also. However, since weeds are the only things I can seem to grow, well, you get the idea. And weeds take so little maintenance. Yes, next year I will keep the weeds and throw out the veggies.
* 'National Sewing Machine Day'.
[The Hankster says] Can't associate a patent, birthday or any other kind of sewing machine event with this date, but the Internet says it's so.
<> Awareness / Observances:
o Health
* 'Breathe Easy Week'. June 13-19 in Great Britain by the British Lung
Foundation. The focus is on lung health and especially an alert for those
who are having unexplained shortness of breath.
- From Wikipedia (Dyspnea):
'Dyspnea, dyspnoea, shortness of breath, or breathlessness or breathing
disorder is the feeling or feelings associated with impaired breathing. The
American Thoracic Society defines it as "a subjective experience of
breathing discomfort that consists of qualitatively distinct sensations
that vary in intensity," and recommends evaluating dyspnea by assessing
the intensity of the distinct sensations, the degree of distress involved,
and its burden or impact on activities of daily living. Distinct sensations
include effort/work, chest tightness, and air hunger (the feeling of not
enough oxygen).
Dyspnea is a normal symptom of heavy exertion but becomes pathological if
it occurs in unexpected situations. In 85% of cases it is due to asthma,
pneumonia, cardiac ischemia, interstitial lung disease, congestive heart
failure, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or psychogenic causes, such
as panic disorder and anxiety. Treatment typically depends on the
underlying cause'.
* 'Cervical Screening Awareness Week'. June 13-19 in Great Britain by Jo’s
Cervical Cancer Trust.
- From Wikipedia (Cervical screening):
'Cervical screening is the process of detecting and removing abnormal
tissue or cells in the cervix before cervical cancer develops. By aiming to
detect and treat cervical neoplasia early on, cervical screening aims at
secondary prevention of cervical cancer. Several screening methods for
cervical cancer are the Pap test (also known as Pap smear or conventional
cytology), liquid-based cytology, the HPV DNA testing and the visual
inspection with acetic acid. Pap test and liquid-based cytology have been
effective in diminishing incidence and mortality rates of cervical cancer
in developed countries but not in developing countries. Prospective
screening methods that can be used in low-resource areas in the developing
countries are the HPV DNA testing and the visual inspection'.
* 'International Men’s Health Week'. June 13-19 in Australia, Denmark,
Great Britain and Ireland.
- From Wikipedia:
'International Men's Health Week is an international week celebrated in
several countries to focus on issues facing men's health. International
Men's Health Week began at an international level in 2002 when
representatives from six men's health organizations around the world met in
a meeting organized by Men's Health Network at the 2nd World Congress on
Men's Health in Vienna, Austria and resolved to work together to launch
International Men's Health Week (IMHW). This meeting followed preliminary
discussions in 2001, at the first World Congress on Men's Health, about the
need to coordinate awareness periods around the globe.
Observers of Men’s Health Week are sometimes seen wearing a blue ribbon as
a symbol of their support for the fight against prostate cancer. However,
problems affecting men's health extend far beyond prostate cancer and other
commonly recognized men's illnesses. Physicians and men's health activists
mark Men's Health Week with awareness campaigns to highlight additional
health concerns such as diabetes, osteoporosis, family health, workplace
accidents, and men's higher likelihood of suicide or being a victim of
homicide'.
* 'RA Awareness Week'. June 13-19 in Great Britain. The focus is on
Rheumatoid Arthritis.
- From Wikipedia (Rheumatoid arthritis):
'Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a long-lasting autoimmune disorder that
primarily affects joints. It typically results in warm, swollen, and
painful joints. Pain and stiffness often worsen following rest. Most
commonly, the wrist and hands are involved, with the same joints typically
involved on both sides of the body. The disease may also affect other parts
of the body. This may result in a low red blood cell count, inflammation
around the lungs, and inflammation around the heart. Fever and low energy
may also be present. Often, symptoms come on gradually over weeks to
months'.
While the cause of rheumatoid arthritis is not clear, it is believed to
involve a combination of genetic and environmental factors. The underlying
mechanism involves the body's immune system attacking the joints. This
results in inflammation and thickening of the joint capsule. It also
affects the underlying bone and cartilage. The diagnosis is made mostly on
the basis of a person's signs and symptoms. X-rays and laboratory testing
may support a diagnosis or exclude other diseases with similar symptoms.
Other diseases that may present similarly include systemic lupus
erythematosus, psoriatic arthritis, and fibromyalgia among others.
The goal of treatment is to reduce pain, decrease inflammation, and improve
a person's overall functioning. This may be helped by balancing rest and
exercise, the use of splints and braces, or the use of assistive devices.
Pain medications, steroids, and NSAIDs are frequently used to help with
symptoms. A group of medications called disease-modifying antirheumatic
drugs (DMARDs) may be used to try to slow the progression of disease. They
include the medications hydroxychloroquine and methotrexate. Biological
DMARDs may be used when disease does not respond to other treatments.
However, they may have a greater rate of adverse effects. Surgery to
repair, replace, or fusion joints may help in certain situations. Most
alternative medicine treatments are not supported by evidence.
RA affects between 0.5 and 1% of adults in the developed world with between
5 and 50 per 100,000 people newly developing the condition each year. Onset
is most frequent during middle age and women are affected 2.5 times as
frequently as men. In 2013, it resulted in 38,000 deaths up from 28,000
deaths in 1990. The first recognized description of RA was made in 1800 by
Dr. Augustin Jacob Landré-Beauvais (1772–1840) of Paris. The term
rheumatoid arthritis is based on the Greek for watery and inflamed joints.
* 'International Albinism Awareness Day'. A U.N. observance.
- From Wikipedia (Albinism):
'Albinism in humans (from the Latin albus, "white" see extended
etymology, also called achromia, achromasia, or achromatosis) is a
congenital disorder characterized by the complete or partial absence of
pigment in the skin, hair and eyes due to absence or defect of tyrosinase,
a copper-containing enzyme involved in the production of melanin. It is the
opposite of melanism. Unlike humans, other animals have multiple pigments
and for these, albinism is considered to be a hereditary condition
characterised by the absence of melanin in particular, in the eyes, skin,
hair, scales, feathers or cuticle.
Albinism results from inheritance of recessive gene alleles and is known to
affect all vertebrates, including humans. While an organism with complete
absence of melanin is called an albino an organism with only a diminished
amount of melanin is described as leucistic or albinoid.
Albinism is associated with a number of vision defects, such as
photophobia, nystagmus, and amblyopia. Lack of skin pigmentation makes for
more susceptibility to sunburn and skin cancers. In rare cases such as
Chédiak–Higashi syndrome, albinism may be associated with deficiencies in
the transportation of melanin granules. This also affects essential
granules present in immune cells leading to increased susceptibility to
infection'.
o Other:
* 'Queen's Official Birthday in Australia and Papua New Guinea'. Second
Monday in June.
- From Wikipedia (Queen's Official Birthday):
'Except in the states of Western Australia and Queensland, Australia
observes the Queen's Birthday on the second Monday in June. Because Western
Australia celebrates Western Australia Day (formerly known as Foundation
Day) on the first Monday in June, the Governor of Western Australia each
year proclaims the day on which the state will observe the Queen's
Birthday, based on school terms and the Perth Royal Show. There is no firm
rule to determine this date, though it is usually the last Monday of
September or the first Monday of October. In 2012, Queensland celebrated
the holiday in October, as the June holiday was reserved to mark Queen
Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee as Queen of Australia, after which the
holiday has reverted to its traditional date in line with the other eastern
Australian states. Starting in 2016, Queensland celebrates the holiday on
the first Monday of October, so that a long weekend coincides with the AFL
and NRL grand finals'
<> Historical events on June 13
* 'In 1944, During World War II, Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack
on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets. . -
- From Wikipedia: 'The V-1 flying bomb (German: Vergeltungswaffe 1,)—also
known to the Allies as the buzz bomb, or doodlebug, and in Germany as
Kirschkern (cherrystone) or Maikäfer (maybug)—was an early pulsejet-powered
cruise missile, the very first production aircraft of any type to use a
pulsejet for power.
The V-1 was developed at Peenemünde Army Research Center by the Nazi German
Luftwaffe during the Second World War. During initial development it was
known by the codename Cherry Stone The first of the so-called
Vergeltungswaffen series designed for terror bombing of London, the V-1 was
fired from launch facilities along the French (Pas-de-Calais) and Dutch
coasts. The first V-1 was launched at London on 13 June 1944), one week
after (and prompted by) the successful Allied landings in Europe. At its
peak, more than one hundred V-1s a day were fired at south-east England,
9,521 in total, decreasing in number as sites were overrun until October
1944, when the last V-1 site in range of Britain was overrun by Allied
forces. After this, the V-1s were directed at the port of Antwerp and other
targets in Belgium, with 2,448 V-1s being launched. The attacks stopped
when the last launch site was overrun on 29 March 1945.
The British operated an arrangement of air defences, including
anti-aircraft guns and fighter aircraft, to intercept the bombs before they
reached their targets as part of Operation Crossbow, while the launch sites
and underground V-1 storage depots were targets of strategic bombing.
* 'In 1966, The United States Supreme Court rules in Miranda v. Arizona
that the police must inform suspects of their rights before questioning
them. . -
- From Wikipedia: 'Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), was a landmark
decision of the United States Supreme Court. In a 5-4 majority, the Court
held that both inculpatory and exculpatory statements made in response to
interrogation by a defendant in police custody will be admissible at trial
only if the prosecution can show that the defendant was informed of the
right to consult with an attorney before and during questioning and of the
right against self-incrimination before police questioning, and that the
defendant not only understood these rights, but voluntarily waived them'.
* 'In 1942, US Office of Strategic Services (OSS), forerunner of the CIA,
is formed. . -
- From Wikipedia: 'The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) was a wartime
intelligence agency of the United States during World War II, and a
predecessor of the modern Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The OSS was
formed to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for the United
States Armed Forces branches. Other OSS functions included the use of
propaganda, subversion, and post-war planning.'
'Prior to the formation of the OSS, American intelligence had been
conducted on an ad-hoc basis by the various departments of the executive
branch, including the State, Treasury, Navy, and War Departments. It had no
overall direction, coordination, or control. The US Army and US Navy had
separate code-breaking departments: Signal Intelligence Service and
OP-20-G. (A previous code-breaking operation of the State Department, the
MI-8, run by Herbert Yardley, had been shut down in 1929 by Secretary of
State Henry Stimson, deeming it an inappropriate function for the
diplomatic arm, because gentlemen don't read each other's mail) The FBI was
responsible for domestic security and anti-espionage operations.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was concerned about American intelligence
deficiencies. On the suggestion of William Stephenson, the senior British
intelligence officer in the western hemisphere, Roosevelt requested that
William J. Donovan draft a plan for an intelligence service based on the
British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) and Special Operations Executive
(SOE). Colonel Donovan was employed to evaluate the global military
position to offer suggestions concerning American intelligence requirements
because the U.S. did not have a central intelligence agency. After
submitting his work, Memorandum of Establishment of Service of Strategic
Information, Colonel Donovan was appointed coordinator of information on
July 11, 1941 heading the new organization known as the office of the
Coordinator of Information (COI). Thereafter the organization was developed
with British assistance Donovan had responsibilities but no actual powers
and the existing US agencies were skeptical if not hostile. Until some
months after Pearl Harbor, the bulk of OSS intelligence came from the UK.
British Security Coordination (BSC) trained the first OSS agents in Canada,
until training stations were set up in the US with guidance from BSC
instructors, who also provided information on how the SOE was arranged and
managed. The British immediately made available their short-wave
broadcasting capabilities to Europe, Africa, and the Far East and provided
equipment for agents until American production was established.
The Office of Strategic Services was established by a Presidential military
order issued by President Roosevelt on June 13, 1942, to collect and
analyze strategic information required by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to
conduct special operations not assigned to other agencies. During the war,
the OSS supplied policymakers with facts and estimates, but the OSS never
had jurisdiction over all foreign intelligence activities. The FBI was left
responsible for intelligence work in Latin America, and the Army and Navy
continued to develop and rely on their own sources of intelligence'.
* 'In 1970, 'The Long and Winding Road' becomes The Beatles' last U.S.
number one song. . -
- From Wikipedia: 'The Long and Winding Road is a ballad written by Paul
McCartney (credited to Lennon–McCartney) from the Beatles' album Let It Be.
It became the group's 20th and last number-one song in the United States in
June 1970, and was the last single released by the quartet.
While the released version of the song was very successful, the
post-production modifications by producer Phil Spector angered McCartney to
the point that when he made his case in court for breaking up the Beatles
as a legal entity, he cited the treatment of The Long and Winding Road as
one of six reasons for doing so. New versions of the song with simpler
instrumentation were subsequently released by both the Beatles and
McCartney.
In 2011, Rolling Stone ranked The Long and Winding Road number 90 on their
list of 100 greatest Beatles songs of all time.
* 'In 1983, Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to leave the
central Solar System when it passes beyond the orbit of Neptune (the
farthest planet from the Sun at the time). . -
- From Wikipedia: 'Pioneer 10 (originally designated Pioneer F) is an
American space probe, weighing 258 kilograms (569 pounds), that completed
the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Thereafter, Pioneer 10 became the
first spacecraft to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. This
space exploration project was conducted by the NASA Ames Research Center in
California, and the space probe was manufactured by TRW Inc.
It was launched on March 2, 1972, by an Atlas-Centaur expendable vehicle
from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Between July 15, 1972, and February 15, 1973,
it became the first spacecraft to traverse the asteroid belt. Photography
of Jupiter began November 6, 1973, at a range of 25,000,000 kilometers
(16,000,000 mi), and a total of about 500 images were transmitted. The
closest approach to the planet was on December 4, 1973, at a range of
132,252 kilometers (82,178 mi). During the mission, the on-board
instruments were used to study the asteroid belt, the environment around
Jupiter, the solar wind, cosmic rays, and eventually the far reaches of the
Solar System and heliosphere.
Radio communications were lost with
Pioneer 10 on January 23, 2003, because of the loss of electric power for
its radio transmitter, with the probe at a distance of 12 billion
kilometers (80 AU) from Earth.
* 'In 2010, A capsule of the Japanese spacecraft Hayabusa, containing
particles of the asteroid 25143 Itokawa, returns to Earth. . -
- From Wikipedia: 'Hayabusa was an unmanned spacecraft developed by the
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) to return a sample of material
from a small near-Earth asteroid named 25143 Itokawa to Earth for further
analysis. Hayabusa, formerly known as MUSES-C for Mu Space Engineering
Spacecraft C, was launched on 9 May 2003 and rendezvoused with Itokawa in
mid-September 2005. After arriving at Itokawa, Hayabusa studied the
asteroid's shape, spin, topography, colour, composition, density, and
history. In November 2005, it landed on the asteroid and collected samples
in the form of tiny grains of asteroidal material, which were returned to
Earth aboard the spacecraft on 13 June 2010.
The spacecraft also carried a detachable minilander, MINERVA, which failed
to reach the surface'.
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Monthly holiday / awareness days in June
Food
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Georgia Blueberry Month
Dairy Month
National Candy Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
Health
Alzheimer's and Brain Awareness Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month (APS)
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Fireworks Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
Mens Health Education and Awareness Month
Migraine Awareness Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Congenital Cytomegalovirus Awareness Month
National Migraine and Headache Awareness Month
National Safety Month
National Scoliosis Awareness Month
National Smile Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
PTSD Awareness Month
Student Safety Month
Vision Research Month
World Infertility Month
Animal / Pets
Adopt-A-Cat Month
Adopt A Shelter Cat Month
National Pet Preparedness Month
National Zoo and Aquarium Month
Other
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Black Music Month
Caribbean-American Heritage Month
Effective Communications Month
Fashion in Colonial Virginia Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
International Surf Music Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Oceans Month
National Rivers Month
National Rose Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Women's Golf Month
June is:
June origin (from Wikipedia): Perhaps to honor goddess Juno, or from the Latin word iuniores (younger ones).
"is the sixth month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and one of the four months with a length of 30 days. June is the month with the longest daylight hours of the year in the Northern Hemisphere and the shortest daylight hours of the year in the Southern Hemisphere. June in the Northern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent to December in the Southern Hemisphere and vice versa. In the Northern hemisphere, the beginning of the meteorological summer is 1 June. In the Southern hemisphere, the
beginning of the meteorological winter is 1 June."
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