Aug 17

 

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Aug 17, 2020  Week: 34  Day: 230                 Local:   H 90° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  12ph                            Nearest lightning:  78mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record High: 88°[2002] Record Low: 38°[1979]   Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"You know you are on the road to success

if you would do your job and not be paid for it."

-Oprah Winfrey

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Random Tidbits

 A team from the University of Utah have told the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco that Yellowstone's magama chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously thought.

It is an underground cavern that measures some 55 miles by 20 miles and runs between 3 and 9 miles below the earth.

If it blows it would wipe out America - and have enormous impacts on the rest of the world.

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A little humor

What do you call an Amish guy with his hand in a horse’s mouth?

A mechanic.

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State Name Origins

There is no disputing the origin of Louisiana's name. The home of Cajun cooking and jazz music was named in honor of King Louis XIV of France, the Sun King, by explorer René-Robert Cavelier in the mid-1600s.

Maine's name might have originated from Royal Navy mariners Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, who received a charter for what would become Maine and used the name to differentiate the mainland from the islands around it.

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Observations This Week

Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico  Aug10-20, 1680

National Aviation Week: 15-21  
National Chef's Appreciation Week: 16-22 
 Link   

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Observations for Today

Baby Boomer's Recognition Day  Link  
Black Cat Appreciation Day 
Link   Link
Cupcake Day Link  Moved to October 26 due to COVID-19
I Love My Feet Day
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Meaning of "Is" Day
National Nonprofit Day  Link

National Thriftshop Day

National Vanilla Custard Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Not sure why but I slept in this morning until almost 7a. Unusual for me, but felt fine when I woke up.

It another hot day with 90 degrees by noon and still climbing. Cooler is on.

The morning paper had an extensive article on Off-campus student housing. Our town has over a dozen such complexes with several more being built. They are huge, architecturally boring, and have caused much dismay by the city government and our citizens. Many students signed semester or 2 semester leases last spring, expecting the University would have in person classes on campus. That hasn’t happened. So students are asking to get out of their leases sue to Covid and no on campus classes. Turns out, none of the complexes, all owned by out-of-state businesses have said NO WAY! You signed, you pay. One mother’s son had signed a lease for 4 people. None could live there due to the virus. She placed ads for roommates and found four who were willing to pick up the lease. The property manager told her to have them come in and sign a lease. They did, but the property manager set up the lease for another apartment in the complex and still wants rent from the first student for all 4 people. A Chinese student had signed a lease, then went home to China. Now she can’t return to the US because of the virus. She has been told to show up and live in the apartment or stay in China and still pay the $800/monthly rent. I am sure this is headed for the courts.

My immediate supervisor from my teaching days in Tuba passed last week at about 85. She was the reason I went into administration. She would pull each teacher out of class several times a week to ‘catch up’ on school gossip. These sessions lasted about one class period. One year she did not like how our 7/8 team was working so well, so for the next year, she moved us from one building to 4 separate buildings so we would have a harder time talking. I knew I might not be a great supervisor, but I did know I could do better than she did. From what I hear, I was a very good supervisor. Sometimes we learn from bad examples.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

First, I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and threw away the inside.

What did I eat?

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Historical Events

1807 – Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat left New York, New York, to Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world.

1896 – Bridget Driscoll was run over by a Benz car in the grounds of The Crystal Palace, London. She was the UK’s first pedestrian motoring fatality.

1907 – Pike Place Market, in Seattle’s historic district, opened.

1908 – Fantasmagorie was released by Émile Cohl. It is one of the earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation and considered by film historians to be the first animated cartoon.

1953 – The first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous took place in Southern California.

1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the best-selling jazz recording of all time, was released.

1969 – Hurricane Camille (Category 5) hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 people.

1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

1978 – Double Eagle II became the first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it landed in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine.

1998 – President Clinton admitted to having an “inappropriate” relationship with an intern, Monica Lewinsky.

2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps became the first person to win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.

2012 Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for two years

2016 Flood waters recede in Louisiana leaving 13 dead and damaging 4,000 homes

2017 Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the first time first picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (Ligo)

2017 On This Day helps launch Borneo Dictionary, an online not for profit dictionary of indigenous Borneo languages with translations in English and Bahasa Malaysia

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Birthdays Today

@95 – Maureen O’Hara, Irish-American actress (died in 2015)

@87 – Mae West, American comedic actress (d.1980)

77 – Robert De Niro, American actor

62 – Belinda Carlisle, American singer, The Go-Gos

60 – Sean Penn, American actor

51 – Donnie Wahlberg, actor

@49 – Davy Crockett, American soldier, and politician (d.1836; at Alamo)

@35 – Mark Salling, American actor (d. 2018; suicide)

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Puzzle Answer

Corn on the cob

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