Aug 27

 

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Aug 27, 2020  Week: 35  Day: 240                 Local:   H 88° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 45%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  9mph                             Nearest lightning:  4mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: 88°[1944 ]   Record: 36°[1976]                Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"I alone cannot change the world,

but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples."

-Mother Teresa

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Random Tidbits

 There are 40 spaces on a standard Monopoly board. Proving that life is a gamble, the game gives players equal odds (one in 40) of going directly to jail or winning the Free Parking lottery.

Forget ‘nine months’; a typical pregnancy last 40 weeks

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A little humor

Last year I took a visual design class... ...and our final exam was to design a fireworks display. I passed with flying colors

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State Name Origins

The Cornhusker State's name is based on an Otoe Indian word "Nebrathka," meaning "flat water," which refers to the Platte River, a symbol of Nebraska.

The Spanish influence is evident in Nevada, whose name is derived from the Spanish phrase "Sierra Nevada," meaning snow-covered mountain range. "Nevada" is Spanish for "covered in snow" or "snow-capped."

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Observations This Week

World Water Week: 23-29  Link
National Composites Week: 24-28  
Link
National Safe at Home Week: 24-28 

Be Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
Minimally Invasive Surgery Week: 26-29  Link (Moved from Sept.)

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Observations for Today

Global Forgiveness Day

Just Because Day
National Burger Day

National Pots de Creme Day

The Duchess Who Wasn't Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

It is another warm day. Clouds building with hope for monsoon. We got a nice monsoon late yesterday. We need so much more.

Hurricane Laura jumped from a Cat 3 to a Cat 4 as it approaches the Texas/Louisiana border on the Gulf. So glad I don’t live in a hurricane zone.

The Squaw Valley Resort is changing his name. After over a decade to discussion with local Native tribes, they have agreed to change from the sexually inappropriate name. A good move, even it a tad late.

I guess I misspoke. Thanks to a friend who reads my posts, by definition she is a first-generation immigrant as one parent was an immigrant. Always learning.

Vice President Lizer, of the Navajo Nation, spoke in support of Trump at the RNC convention. Goes to show that not all Navajo are not politically aligned. No surprise to me.

There is much buzz on social media about Melania Trump’s redesign of the Rose Garden. The new design is much different than that of Jackie Kennedy, just like the world has changed since those days. I saw it last night during the RNC convention. It is certainly different. She is the first lady and gets to do it.  Her speech was good, being the first to recognize Covid.

The Secretary of State may have broken norms and his own policy by speaking from Jerusalem at the RNC convention. Not surprising.

The former Planned Parenthood state chair gave, in my opinion, an overly graphic speech about abortions. She may have changed some facts as some facts do not match reality. She also proposes ‘head-of-household’ only voting. The head-of-household would cast one vote for the family. Sad.

Just read that two sisters (40 and 44) died of Covid. Both were former students of
TCBS and I knew both of them. Both worked at the TC hospital, lived with their mother, and each left a pre-teen child. So very sad.

In other Rez news: The Red Lake Trading Post opened in 1891. While I worked in Red Lake, this was the center of the community. Today it is closing it doors for good.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Turn me on my side and I am everything

Cut me in half and I am nothing.

What am I?

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Historical Events

1813 – French Emperor Napoleon I defeated a larger force of Austrians, Russians, and Prussians at the Battle of Dresden.

1859 – Petroleum was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania leading to the world’s first commercially successful oil well.

1883 Krakatoa volcano, west of Java in Indonesia, erupts with a force of 1,300 megatons and kills approximately 40,000 people

1939 – First flight of the turbojet-powered Heinkel He 178, the world’s first jet aircraft, in Germany.

1955 – The first copy of the Guinness Book of Records was issued.

1984 US President Ronald Reagan announces 'Teacher in Space' project

2000 540-metre (1,772 ft)-tall Ostankino Tower in Moscow catches fire, three people are killed.

2003 – The first 6-party talks, involving South and North Korea, the United States, China, Japan, and Russia, convened to find a resolution to the security concerns as a result of the North Korean nuclear weapons program.

2003 – Mars made its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing just 34,646,418 miles away.

2015 "The Shepherd's Crown" by Terry Pratchett published by Doubleday, 5 months after the author's death, last book in the Discworld series

2018 UN releases report saying Myanmar military leaders should face genocide and crimes against humanity charges for violence against Rohingya

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Birthdays Today

79 – Harrison Page, American character actor

@78 – Martha Raye, American actress, and comedian (d. 1994; pneumonia)

@78 – Ira Levin, American novelist, playwright, songwriter (d. 2007; heart attack)

77 – Tuesday Weld, American actress

74 – Barbara Bach, American actress

68 – Paul Ruebens, actor

@64 – Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President (d. 1973; heart attack)

59 – Tom Ford, fashion designer

59 – Yolanda Adams, American singer

51 – Chandra Wilson, American actress

41 – Aaron Paul, American actor

@32 – Charles Rolls, English engineer, and businessman, co-founded Rolls-Royce Limited (d. 1910; air crash)

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Puzzle Answer

The number 8

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