Aug 10

 

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Aug 10, 2020 Week: 33 Day: 223

86004:   H 85° \ L 48° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  0mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  252mi.; Nearest active fire:  59mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 89°[2002]   Record Low: 40°[2009]

Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"Things work out best for those who

make the best of how things work out."

-John Wooden

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Random Tidbits

 After returning to Earth, many astronauts have a difficult time adjusting to gravity and often forget that things fall if you drop them.

NASA officials have maintained that astronauts have never had sex on the International Space Station or during any space shuttle missions. Scientists speculate, however, that while sex in space might pose some mechanical problems, conceiving a child could be dangerous. Low gravity could raise the risk of an ectopic pregnancy, and radiation could raise the risk of birth defects.

While no NASA astronauts have had sex in space, in 1999 porn stars Silvia Saint and Nick Lang did a 20-second zero-gravity intercourse scene for the film The Uranus Experiment: Part Two.

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A little humor

How do you know you’re in the presence of a real Coloradan?

He carries his $3,000 mountain bike atop his $500 car.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida,

but they turned 60 and that’s the law.

- Jerry Seinfeld

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State Name Origins

Credit the Spanish conquistadors for naming California. The name of the nation's largest state comes from the Califia, a legendary queen of the island paradise described in a Spanish romance novel from the early 16th century.

Another state whose name owes it origins to the Spanish is Colorado. The state's name means "colored red" or "color rojo" in Spanish. It was used for the Colorado River because of the abundance of red sandstone soil in the region.

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Observations This Week

Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link 
Elvis Week: 8-16 Link
Assistance Dog Week: 9-15  
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Perseid Meteor Showers: 9-13
National Motorcycle Week: 9-16 
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Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 9-16 
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National Resurrect Romance Week:9-16 

Weird Contest Week: 9-16 
Safe and Sound Week: 10-16 Link
US Amateur Golf Week: 10-16

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Observations for Today

Assistance Dog Day  Link Link  
Lazy Day

National Banana Split Day

National S’mores Day  Link

National Duran Duran Appreciation Day
National Shapewear Day 
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Paul Bunyan Day 
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Skyscraper Appreciation Day  
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Smithsonian Day
World  Lion Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

A nice Sunday. Got my walk in before the wind started.

While moving my first load of wash to the dryer…some 2 feet away…I was wondering if there was an easier way. Then I remembered my mom doing laundry. In my incredibly young days, she had a wringer washer downstairs in our partially finished basement. After wringing out the clothes, she would carry them up the stairs, out to the clothesline, hang them to dry. Then when dry, she would carry them back downstairs to get ironed. Then back upstairs to put in the proper place. She always ironed the sheets and our jeans. I guess I am doing it the easiest way possible.

I’ve talked about the Navajo Nation curfew over the weekends. I knew that most Navajo gov’t offices were closed all the time, with many workers doing their work on the internet. Yesterday I learned that water hauling is now a problem. Both livestock water windmills and chapter house drinking water stations are usually closed. If a windmill malfunctions, it takes days to get someone to fix it. Since the Chapter House is closed, that means only outside drinking water stations [about 20% of the total stations] are opened. If they malfunction, there is really no one to report it to.

Pay close attention to the government workings. The Post Office, Social Security, and Medicare are all in the crosshairs. Trump’s latest EO says it will cut payroll taxes, that is doublespeak for no new money into Social Security or Medicare until the cut expires. By slowing down mail delivery, cutting Overtime to zero, mail in ballots will be in jeopardy. Making America Great Again.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

We can hurt without moving.

We can poison without touching.

We can bear the truth and lies.

We are not to be judged by our size.

What are we?

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Historical Events

610 In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an

1500 Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar

1675 King Charles II and John Flamsteed lay the foundation stone of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London

1793 Louvre palace officially opens in Paris as The Museum Central des Arts

1821 Missouri admitted as 24th US state

1833 Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200

1846 US Act of Congress passes establishing the Smithsonian Institution, now world's largest museum and research complex

1921 FDR stricken with a paralytic illness at summer home on Canadian island of Campobello. At the time it was thought to be polio, but could possibly have been Guillain–Barré syndrome

1943 Adolf Hitler watches lynching of allied pilots

1954 At Massena, New York, the groundbreaking ceremony for the St. Lawrence Seaway is held.

1966 Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again

1993 Ruth Bader Ginsburg sworn in as a US Supreme Court Justice

2001 US and UK reject a proposal by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan to permit the Iraqi government to use $1 billion per year to fund infrastructure improvements and to increase oil production capacity

2017 US President Donald Trump declares opioid addiction a national emergency

2019 Financier Jeffrey Epstein found dead of an apparent suicide in his jail cell in New York, while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges

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Birthdays Today

@90 - Herbert Hoover, 31st US President (d. 1964)

@81 – Jimmy Dean, singer, sausage maker

@75 - Henri Nestlé, German-Swiss industrialist (founder of Nestlé), (d. 1890)

60 – Antonio Banderas, Actor30 – Lucas Till, actor

30 – Lucas Till, TV actor

23- Kylie Jenner, reality show

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Puzzle Answer

Words

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