Jul 10

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Jul 10, 2020 Week: 28 Day: 192

86004:   H 87° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  17mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  684mi.; Nearest active fire:  68mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 94°[2003]   Record Low: 37°[1926]

Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)

 

Today’s  Quote

"Love the life you live.

Live the life you love."

-Bob Marley

 

Random Tidbits

7. Trinidad Scorpion Pepper: "Butch T." The Trinidad Scorpion 'Butch T' is named for Butch Taylor, its creator. It ends in a stinger that resembles a scorpion's tail, and at nearly 1.5 million heat units, packs just as much of a punch.

8. Naga Viper. At 1.35 million heat units, the Naga Viper is nearly as dangerous as its namesake.

9. Barrackpore. The Barrackapore variant of the 7-pot pepper has a sweet, tropical flavor, but also brings the heat, with 1.3 million Scoville heat units.

10. Ghost Pepper. The Bhut Jolokia, more commonly known as the Ghost Pepper, was one of the first super-hot modern peppers. Though it's been surpassed by new hybrids, it still packs a punch at 1 million heat units.

 

Have a smile

Thanks to one of my readers

My friends gave me the nickname `Mr. Compromise`.

It's not my first choice.. but I'm ok with it.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#49                 "It's alive! It's alive!"       

Colin Clive                     Frankenstein                              1931

 

Observations This Week

Tour de France: 27-7/19  Link  Moved to August due to COVID-19
Freedom Week: 4-10
Be Nice To New Jersey Week: 5-11 
National Farriers Week: 5-11 
National Theraputic Recreation Week: 5-11  Link  
Nude Recreation Weekend: 5-12 
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14 Link 

 

Observations for Today

Clerihew Day
Don't Step On A Bee Day
Global Energy Independence Day Link
Collector Car Appreciation Day Link
National Motorcycle Day  
Oils & Concentrates Day  Link
‘Pick Blueberries’ Day

Piña Colada Day  Link
Taos Pueblo Pow Wow  Link Canceled due to COVID
Teddy Bears' Picnic Day Link Link
U.S. Energy Independence Day  Link
Wayne Chicken Day Link Moved to September due to COVID-19

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Another very warm day…the mountain breeze is very refreshing. Going to get hotter over the weekend.

One candidate for Flag Mayor has admitted he made up names, used Facebook to get names to sign on his petition. After being investigated he said he was not trying to cheat but was too concerned about Covid to go door-to-door. His name is still on the primary ballot because they were already mailed out for the Aug 4^th primary election.

The world sure looked brighter knowing that Tahiti is a go in March.

School update: MIT and Harvard have filed to sue the Trump administration decision that international students can not stay in the US if courses are only on-line. The CDC will revise or just add additional references on its guidelines for opening schools across the nation. The head of CDC said that his group only provide guidance and has never been prescriptive. Hmmm

Voice of America, the Federal government international broadcaster…Radio Free Europe, Radio Free Asia, and Office of Cuba Broadcasting…announced it will not extend VISAs for foreign journalists in US. Many of these journalists fear that returning to their home country will lead to arrest, imprisonment, or death. Another huge change in our great country.

The Supreme Court issued lots of decisions today. One has to do with the eastern half of Oklahoma and the Muskogee Creek Nation. The court ruled that the state of OK does not have jurisdiction over that area. The court said it expects the state of OK and the Creek Nation will work out the details in a peaceful manner.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

Homophones are words that share the same pronunciation, no matter how they are spelled. If they are spelled differently they are called heterographs. Find heterographs meaning:

FUEL and DARK COSMETIC POWDER

 

Historical Events

1553 - Lady Jane Grey began her 9-day reign on the throne of England.

1892 - The first concrete-paved street was built, on Court Avenue, around the Logan County Court House, in Bellefountaine, Ohio.

1913 - Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.

1921 - (Sunday) Bloody Sunday: Sixteen people were killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1925 - In Dayton, Tennessee, the Monkey Trial began with John T. Scopes, a high school science teacher accused of teaching the theory of evolution in violation of the Butler Act. The law was repealed on May 17, 1967.

1938 - Howard Hughes set a record by completing a 91-hour airplane flight around the world.

1962 - The patent (#3,043,625) was issued to Nils Bohlen, for the three-point car seat-belt.

1962 - Telstar, the world's first communications satellite, was launched into orbit. An instrumental pop tune by The Tornadoes titled after the event reached #1 on the Billboard Pop Music Chart.

1966 - Ultraman debuted in Japan

1978 - World News Tonight premiered on ABC.

1991 - Boris Yeltsin took office as the first elected President of Russia.

1998 Roman Catholic sexual abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by former priest Rudolph Kos

2012 The American Episcopal Church becomes the first to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages

2015 The Confederate flag is taken down for the last time from South Carolina Capitol grounds 1 day after the state legislature ordered it removed.

2017 NASA's Juno spacecraft makes closest ever pass over Jupiter's Great Red Spot at 9,000 kilometers overhead

2019 Earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa found with 210,000 year old skull from Apidima Cave, southern Greece published in "Nature"

2019 British ambassador to the US Sir Kim Darroch resigns after his secret cables calling the US president "inept" were published

 

Birthdays Today

@88 - Eunice Kennedy Shriver, co-founded the Special Olympics (d. 2009)

@86 - Nikola Tesla, Serbian-American physicist/engineer (d. 1943)

@82 - David Brinkley, American journalist (d. 2003)

@74 - Adolphus Busch, German brewer, co-founded Anheuser-Busch (d. 1913)

73 - Arlo Guthrie, American singer-songwriter

@71 - Ron Glass, American actor (d. 2016; respiratory failure)

@66 - Fred Gwynne, American actor (d. 1993; pancreatic cancer)

@49 - Arthur Ashe, American tennis player/journalist (d. 1993; AIDS)

48 - Sofía Vergara, Colombian-American actress/model

40 - Jessica Simpson, American singer-songwriter/actress

 

Puzzle Answer

Coal/Kohl

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