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Aug 7, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 220

86004:   H 81° \ L 39° \ Average Sky Cover: %

Wind:   28mph\Gusts:  36mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  265mi.; Nearest active fire:  59mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 92°[1978]   Record Low: 39°[1991]

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

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Today’s  Quote

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way,

you will command the attention of the world.

George Washington Carver

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Random Tidbits

People often think of American lagers or Belgian ales when they think of beer, but there are many types of beer, such as sorghum-based African opaque beer, Japanese sake (which is not wine, but a rice beer), Russian kvass made from bread, and corn-based South American chicha.

You can go swimming in a pool of beer at the Schloss Starkenberger brewery in Tarrentz, Austria. The sudsy bath is said to promote healthy skin.  

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A little humor

I wasn't planning on getting a brain transplant today-But I changed my mind

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Observations This Week

International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7  Link
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8  
National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8  Link 
National Health Center Week: 2-8 Link  
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8  Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Exhibitor Appreciation Week: 3-7 Link
National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9  
National Psychic Week: 3-7 Link  Link  
Old Fiddlers' Week: 3-8
PGA Championships: 3-9 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19
North American Organic Brewers Days: 4-8 Link   Moved from June.
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money): 4-8
Rock for Life Week: 4-7 Link
National Hobo Week: 6-9 Link
International Tree Climbing Days: 7-9 Link
Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link 

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Observations for Today

Braham Pie Day or Homemade Pie Day 
Brother's Day  Link 
International Beer Day Link   Link  
Lighthouse Day  Link
National Water Balloon Day  
Particularly Preposterous Packaging Day
Professional Speakers Day

Purple Heart Day
Raspberries and Cream Day

Tomboy Tools Day 
Twins Day Link   

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My Rambling Thoughts

Thursday has turned into a very windy day. Thankful there is no sand.

Travel, as we all know, is difficult. Ireland is still welcoming Americans…as long as they quarantine for 10 days after arrival. They like Americans, and of course their tourist $$$, and they want everyone to be safe. If you must stay in a hotel, this makes the trip much more expensive.

Covid has messed up many things. Now the Census Bureau is going to stop counting people a month earlier than expected. Why? They say it is to meet Trump’s deadline of a count by the end of this calendar year. Trump is so good with Executive Orders, if the census were important to him, he could simply extend his deadline. Everyone knows it takes longer to count Americans who are homeless, rural Americans, and American minorities. The census sets so much, this is disgusting.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Which eight letter word still remains a word even after removing each letter from one at a time?

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Historical Events

1782 – George Washington ordered the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It was later renamed the Purple Heart.

1909 – Alice Huyler Ramsey and three other women became the first women to complete a transcontinental automobile trip, taking 59 days to travel from New York, New York to San Francisco, California. Alice drove the whole trip.

1930 – Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, two accused African-American criminals were taken from jail by a mob and lynched. Lawrence Beitler took a picture of the mob and bodies, inspiring Abel Meeropol to write a poem, “Bitter Fruit.” It was later rephrased as “Strange Fruit” and recorded by Billie Holiday.

1944 – IBM announced the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, known best as the Harvard Mark I. It used 765,000 components and hundreds of miles of wire and weighed about 5 tons.

1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering (became Sony in 1958) sold its first transistor radios in Japan.

1959 – The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny went into circulation. It replaced the “wheat” design and was minted until 2008.

1974 – Philippe Petit walked an illegal tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

1978 – The US Government made funds available to offer federal assistance for the Love Canal Disaster

1983 Some 675,000 AT&T employees strike

1994 1st telephone link between Israel & Jordan

2018 Mendocino Fire becomes the largest recorded fire in California's history at 290,600 acres, overtaking 2017 Thomas Fire

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Birthdays Today

@88 – Stan Freberg, American puppeteer, voice actor (d. 2015)

78 – Garrison Keillor, American humorist, and radio host

78 – B.J. Thomas, American singer

@74 – Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, American author, and activist (d. 1964)

60 – David Duchovny, American actor

54 – Jimmy Wales, American businessman, co-founder of Wikipedia

45 – Charlize Theron, actor

@41 – Mata Hari [Margaretha Geertruida "Margreet" MacLeod], Dutch dancer, and spy (d.1917; executed)

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Puzzle Answer

STARTING: Starting, Staring, String, Sting, Sing, Sin, In, I.

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Aug 6

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Aug 6, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 219

86004:   H 83° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   12mph\Gusts:  38mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  300mi.; Nearest active fire:  59mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 90°[1983]   Record Low: 36°[1953]

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

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Today’s  Quote

Do your duty and a little more

and the future will take care of itself.

Andrew Carnegie

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Random Tidbits

In ancient Mesopotamia, beer was associated with religion and ritual and was believed to have magical powers.

In Medieval Europe, Catholic monks would often undergo "beer fasts" during the forty days of Lent. They ate no food, getting calories only from beer, which they called "liquid bread."

Brewers began adding hops to beer in the 9th century AD. Today, nearly all beer is brewed with hops, which adds a zesty, bitter flavor to beer and acts as a preservative.

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A little humor

I'm tired of going to shopping centers.

When you've seen one- you've seen a mall

I never believed that venturing beyond my comfort zone

Would include going to the grocery store

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Observations This Week

International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7  Link
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7
Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8  
National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8  Link 
National Health Center Week: 2-8 Link  
Single Working Women's Week: 2-8  Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Exhibitor Appreciation Week: 3-7 Link
National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9  
National Psychic Week: 3-7 Link  Link  
Old Fiddlers' Week: 3-8
PGA Championships: 3-9 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19
North American Organic Brewers Days: 4-8 Link   Moved from June.
Numismatic Week (World's Fair of Money): 4-8
Rock for Life Week: 4-7 Link
National Hobo Week: 6-9 Link

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Observations for Today

Fresh Breath Day

Hiroshima Day
India Pale Ale Beer Day Link 
National Fresh Breath (Halitosis)  Day
National Root Beer Float Day Link

Wiggle Your Toes Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

I ordered my eye drop script on Monday. I called today to discover they were on back order. My great pharmacist called the other Walgreens, they had it, and I just had to drive across town to get them. No Big Deal. Glad they had them.

Navajo Nation announced the 57-hour weekend curfew is not going to be only 32…Sat night until Monday morning.

Vote tally is in for our city/county. Sadly, only about 30% of registered voters actually voted…either by mail or in person. There is really no excuse. I think the lack of Civics classes in high school has a lot to do with it. It has been years since the classes were required, and years since they were even offered as an elective. Many living in the US all their lives have never taken even basic Civics. Therefore they don’t vote.

Most people do not like to do public speaking. Those who do usually prefer writing their own speech. When they must read a speech prepared by someone else, they usually practice a couple of times before going in front of an audience. If there are difficult words in the speech, the writer usually does a phonemic pronunciation for the reader. I do not know what happened when Trump gave his speech yesterday and could not pronounce Yosemite, but speech writers around the country were cringing.  

Note to our President: You do not get pregnant from taking a pregnancy test. It is the same with the virus. What matters is the deaths in the population, not deaths of identified cases. It must be exhausting for educated people.

It now appears that the horrific explosion in Lebanon was caused by government inefficiency. The government had been told many times over the past few years that the stored fertilizer at the port city was dangerous. The government just let it sit there. Sad.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

If you remove the first, third and last letter from this five-letter word it still sounds the same.

What is the word?

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Historical Events

1787 – 60 copies of the Constitution of the United States were delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, William Kemmler was the first person to be executed by electric chair.

1926 – Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1945 – Hiroshima, Japan was largely destroyed when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” was dropped by the B-29 Enola Gay. August 6th, 1945 at 8:16 a.m. was the deadliest moment in history, killing over 70,000 people in 5 seconds.

1956 – The DuMont Television Network made its final broadcast, A Boxing Match from the St. Nicholas Arena series.

1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, at least 4862 years old, was cut down in Nevada.

1966 – In a post-fight interview, Howard Cosell honors Muhammad Ali’s wishes to no longer be referred to as Cassius Clay, making his new name more acceptable by everyone.

1970 – 200 ‘yippies’ invaded Disneyland, putting on a circus (acting like fools), climbing buildings, and singing the Mickey Mouse Club theme.

1996 – NASA announced that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars and found in Antarctica, contained evidence of primitive life-forms.

2012 – NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars.

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Birthdays Today

@91 – Louella Parsons, American gossip columnist (d. 1972)

@79 – Robert Mitchum, American actor (died in 1997)

@77 – Lucille Ball, American comedic actress and television producer (d.1989)

@73 – Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)

@64 – Susie Taylor, writer and first African American Army nurse (d. 1912)

@58- Andy Warhol, artist (d. 1987; irregular heartbeat)

@6 – JonBenet Ramsey, (d. 1996; unsolved murder)

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Puzzle Answer

Empty

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