Jul 20

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Jul 20, 2020 Week: 30 Day: 202

86004:   H 86° \ L 55° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  7mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  191mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire          

Record High: 91°[1939]   Record Low: 42°[1940]

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

 

Today’s  Quote

"I find that the harder I work,

the more luck I seem to have."

-Thomas Jefferson

 

Random Tidbits

 The American Dietetic Association (ADA) concludes that a vegetarian or vegan diet is healthier than one that includes meat. They note that vegetarians have lower body mass indices, lower rates of death from heart disease, lower blood cholesterol levels, lower blood pressure, lower rates of hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and less prostate and colon cancer.

There are several types of vegetarians. The strictest type is vegans. Vegans avoid not only meat but also all animal products. There is a debate within the vegan community about whether honey is appropriate for a vegan diet. For example, the Vegan Society and the American Vegan Society do not consider honey appropriate because it comes from an animal.

A fruitarian is a type of vegetarian in which a person eats just fruits, nuts, seeds, and other plant material that can be harvested without killing the plant.

 

Remember these movie quotes?

#8                   "May the Force be with you."

Harrison Ford                            Star Wars      1977

 

Observations This Week

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
Captive Nations Week: 19-25 
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 19-25 Link 
National Independent Retailers Week: 19-25 Link  
National Zoo Keeper Week:19-25 Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
RAGBRAI: 19-25
Women in Baseball Week: 19-25 
International Lace Week: 20-24  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19

 

Observations for Today

Fortune Cookie Day

Global Hug Your Kid Day 
Moon Day

National Get Out of the Doghouse Day  
National Ice Cream Sundae Day

National Lollipop Day Link
Space Exploration Day  Link
Ugly Truck Day- it's a "guy" thing

World Jump Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

Awaiting another nice monsoon. Yesterday’s was extremely enjoyable.

Thankfully the Sunday news programs didn’t limit their ‘news’ to Covid. While it is good to keep up on Covid, other things are happening.

It is hard for me to understand what the Federal agents are doing in Portland. Using military force, with no identification, to pick up protesters and haul them off in unmarked vehicles seems more like a dictatorship than America. I know they are released but still.

My HS graduation from WRHS has been having annual picnics since our 5-year anniversary. This year is no different, except that attendees must sign a waiver and it is not a potluck…it is ‘bring your own everything’. It is scheduled for Aug. 1. Seems a tad crazy to me.

There are two TV shows I highly recommend. The first, on ABC is What Would You Do? It sets up today’s issues in various public settings. The actors do a short scene and they see how people react to the situation. Kinda like Candid Camera. It should be on most cable/satellite providers under ABC on Demand. The second one resumes tonight: United Shades of America on CNN. Last season was great!

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What do you get if you put a radio in a refrigerator?

Bonus:

If there is a bee in my hand what is in my eye?

 

Historical Events

1903 - The Ford Motor Company shipped its first car.

1938 - The United States Department of Justice filed suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regard to the studio system.

1940 - California opened its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway.

1963 - #1 Hit July 20, 1963 - August 2, 1963: Jan and Dean - Surf City

1969 - In a live transmission from the Moon was viewed by 720 million people around the world, with the landing of Apollo 11, at 10:56 p.m. EDT, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepped onto the surface of the Moon, live on international television.

1976 - The American Viking 1 spacecraft successfully landed on Mars.

1977 - The Central Intelligence Agency released documents under the Freedom of Information Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.

1982 - The Provisional IRA detonated two bombs in Hyde Park and Regent's Park in central London, killing eight soldiers, wounding forty-seven people, and killing seven horses.

1997 - The fully restored USS Constitution (a.k.a. Old Ironsides) celebrated its 200th birthday by setting sail again for the first time in 116 years.

2005 - The Civil Marriage Act legalized same-sex marriage in Canada.

2012 - James Holmes opened fire at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, killing 12 and injuring 70 others.

2015 - The United States and Cuba resumed full diplomatic relations after five decades.

2017 Elon Musk tweets he has "verbal government approval" to build 29 minute Hyperloop between New York and Washington, D.C.

 

Birthdays Today

82 - Diana Rigg, English actress

75 - Kim Carnes, American singer-songwriter

73 - Carlos Santana, Mexican-American singer-songwriter and guitarist

@61 - Gregor Mendel, Austro-German monk, geneticist, botanist (d. 1884)

@52 - Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher (d. 1643; Siwanoy raid)

49 - Sandra Oh, Canadian actress

49 - Omar Epps, American actor

@43 - Natalie Wood, American actress (d. 1981; drowning)

@32 - Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (d. 323 BC; drinking binge)

32 - Julianne Hough, American dancer

 

Puzzle Answer

Cool Music

Bonus:

Beauty.  Beauty is in the eye of the bee holder.

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