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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
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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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