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Jul 18, 2020 Week: 29 Day: 200
86004:
H 81° \ L 56° \ Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind:
mph\Gusts: mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 2.6mi.; Nearest active fire: 66mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 93°[2005]
Record Low: 42°[1940]
Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"Success usually comes to
those who
are too busy to be looking for
it."
-Henry
David Thoreau
Random Tidbits
The symbolism of the pyramid on the dollar
bill seal's reverse is trickier. The pyramid has 13 steps the designers
apparently never got tired of the 13 motif and the Roman numeral for 1776 is
emblazoned across the bottom. The all-seeing Eye of Providence at the top of
the pyramid symbolizes the divine help the early Americans needed in
establishing the new country. The pyramid itself symbolizes strength and
durability.
The Latin motto Annuit
Ceptis appears over the pyramid; it translates into "He [God] has favored
our undertaking." The scroll underneath the pyramid reads Novus Ordo
Seclorum, or "A new order of the ages," which was meant to signify
the dawn of the new American era.
Remember these movie quotes?
# 10 "You talkin' to me?" Robert De Niro
Taxi Driver 1976_
Observations This Week
Tour de
France: 27-7/19 Link Moved to August due to COVID-19
National Vodka Week: 12-18 Link
Operation Safe Driver
Week: 12-18 Link
Sports Cliché Week: 12-18 Link Cancelled
due to COVID-19 cancelling the MLB Games.
Family Golf Week:
15-18 Link
National Cancer Survivor Sibling Week: 15-18 Link
National Ventriloquism Week:
15-18 Link Cancelled due to
COVID-19
Rabbit Week: 15-21
Hemingway Look-Alike Days: 16-20 Link Cancelled due to
COVID-19
National Scrabble Week: 18-25 Link Cancelled due to
COVID-19
National Moth Week: 18-26 Link
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
Observations
for Today
Celebration of The Horse
Day: Thru 19
Insurance Nerd Day Link
National Bridal Sale Day
National Caviar Day Link
National Sour Candy Day Link
Nelson Mandela International Day Link
Strawberry Rhubarb Wine Day Link
Toss Away the "Could Haves" and "Should Haves" Day
Woodie Wagon Day
Women's Dive Day
My Rambling Thoughts
It looks like the monsoon has arrived. Getting lots of
clouds, some lightning. I can smell rain so am very hopeful.
Using taxpayer dollars, the Governor of Georgia is
suing the Mayor of Atlanta for an order to have masks mandatory in most public
places. The mayor’s response: See you in Court.
To prevent over 5000 possible evictions in Maricopa
County (Phoenix), Gov. Ducey has extended the no eviction order until Oct. 31.
A very good step. Then there is a new scam here in AZ: Through phone calls or emails,
the scammer promises a COVID test, after one gives some personal information. They
say they will check and call back or email back the time and location of the
test. The person gets no response, only their insurance provider gets billed
for the non-existent test. People are being told to only go to a state-run
testing site or to contact their primary care physician for the test. Crazy. Recent
Twitter analysis says that AZ is #1…in anti-facemask activity.
Underage teenagers have always been creative in
finding ways to get booze. This latest scheme is working: Teenagers dress up
like an old person, use a cane, wear a mask, and go the liquor store and easily
buy booze. Illegal, but very creative.
Everyone reads about the USPS having financial issues…based
mostly on the law that said they have to finance their retirement payments
decades in advance. The US Postmaster General, Louis DeJoy, has a plan. Note:
he brings no postal experience to his job but was a mega-donor to Trump. His
plan includes: No Overtime for any postal workers, no ‘extra’ trips, and leave
some mail at the Post Office if taking it would possibly cause overtime to
deliver. Sounds like a plan that will only add to the problems of reliability and
trust in the Postal Service.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
There are five identical
looking bags of gold coins. Four of the
bags contain coins made of real gold and one of the bags contains coins made of
fool’s gold.
All of the coins in all of
the bags look identical. They are the
same size, color and shape. The only difference is their weight. Real gold
coins weigh 10 grams and coins made of fool’s gold weigh 11 grams.
You have an accurate scale
that you can use only one time to determine which bag contains the fool’s
gold. How do you do it?
Historical Events
1870 - The First Vatican Council decreed the dogma of
papal infallibility.
1914 Gandhi
leaves South Africa after successfully leading campaigns of Passive Resistance
1925 - Adolf Hitler published Mein Kampf.
1963 The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid
releases its second interim report pressing for international sanctions against
South Africa, particularly the supply of arms, ammunition and petroleum
1968 - Intel was founded in Mountain View, California.
1969 - Off of Chappaquiddick Island, Senator Ted
Kennedy from Massachusetts drove an Oldsmobile off a bridge and his passenger,
Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
1972 Leader of the British Labour Party Harold Wilson
holds meeting with representatives of the Irish Republican Army
1974 World's tallest structure, 646 metre Polish radio mast,
completed 1972 Egyptian
president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aides
1976 - Nadia Comaneci became the first person in
Olympic Games history to score a perfect 10 in gymnastics at the 1976 Summer
Olympics.
1977 Vietnam becomes a member of the UN
1994 Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
2012 Kim Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme
Leader of North Korea and given the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
2013 - The Government of Detroit filed for the largest
municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, with approximately $20B in debt.
2018 Google fined record $5.1 billion by the EU for
abusing its power in mobile phone market
2018 New Earth geological age announced, the
Meghalayan Age 4,200 years ago to the present, by the International Commission
on Stratigraphy
2019 Children's songs "Baby Shark" and
"Raining Tacos" used by City of West Palm Beach, Florida to drive
away homeless people from the waterfront
2019 One of world's earliest mosques at 1,200 years
old discovered by archaeologists in Israel's Negev Desert
2019 June 2019 was the hottest June on record with
average worldwide temperature of 61.6F (16.4C) according to The US National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Birthdays Today
@95 -
Nelson Mandela, politician, 1st President of South Africa (d. 2013)
@95 -
John Glenn, American colonel, astronaut, and politician (d. 2016)
@85 -
Harriet Nelson, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
@84 -
Richard Bernard Red
Skelton, American actor and comedian (d. 1997)
80 -
James Brolin, American actor
73 - Malcolm Stevenson Steve
Forbes Jr.,
American publisher
70 -
Richard Branson, Entrepreneur
@67 -
Hunter S. Thompson, American journalist author (d. 2005; suicide)
@65 -
Margaret ‘Molly’ Brown, Titanic survivor, Denver socialite (d. 1932)
66 -
Ricky Skaggs, American singer-songwriter
56 -
Wendy Williams, American talk show host
52 - Vin Diesel [Mark Sinclair], American actor
35 -
Chace Crawford, American actor
Puzzle Answer
Take one coin from the
first bag, two from the second bag, three from the third bag, four from the
fourth bag, and five from the fifth bag. If the weight on the scale ends in 1
you know it’s the first bag, 2 the second, 3 the third, 4 fourth, and 5 the
fifth bag.
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