Aug 28

 

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Aug 28, 2020  Week: 35  Day: 241                 Local:   H 89° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 70%

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  7mph                            Nearest lightning:  8mi.; active fire:  111mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: 89°[1948]   Record: 33°[1910]                 Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"You become what you believe."

-Oprah Winfrey

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Random Tidbits

Cooking food with fire or heat is a uniquely human activity. Archeological evidence for cooking goes as far back as 1 million years ago.

Today, Americans spend about half the time cooking than they used to, even as recently as the mid-sixties.

The industrial revolution transformed cooking forever. Food could be mass-produced, mass-marketed, and standardized.

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A little humor

"Disorder in the Court" True statements from court records:

ATTORNEY: What gear were you in at the moment of the impact?

WITNESS: Gucci sweats and Reeboks.

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ATTORNEY: What is your date of birth?

WITNESS: July 18th.

ATTORNEY: What year?

WITNESS: Every year.

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State Name Origins

New Hampshire was named by Captain John Mason after Hampshire, England, where Mason had lived as a child. Mason received a land grant for what would become New Hampshire in 1629.

New Jersey, the third state to join the Union, was named for the island of Jersey in the English Channel in honor of Sir George Carteret, one of the two men to whom the land that would become New Jersey was originally given. The city of Carteret in central New Jersey is named after Sir George Carteret.

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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

Bow Tie Day

Crackers Over The Keyboard Day
National Cherry Turnovers Day

National Power Rangers Day Link
National Weed Out Hate Day
Race Your Mouse Around the Icons Day
Radio Commercials Day
Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day (lost pets) Link
Stuffed Green Bell Peppers Day

World Daffodil Day Link

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My Rambling Thoughts

Dark clouds everywhere. Hoping for more moisture than our short storm yesterday.

Kenosha shooting details are slow in coming. It sounds like things are calming down. I sure hope so. When a man is shot numerous times in the back, the public expects lots of details fast. Interesting that Tucker Carlson on FOX suggested that the 17 year old was justified, since the police where nowhere to be found.

There is a new app I got for my phone: A Starting Point. It takes the major areas people are interested in and then has both sides of the story told. One needs to use it with an open mind as it may change perspectives. Daily Points is interesting.

About 20 people showed up at the downtown Flagstaff PO with signs of support for the USPS. Small town America is great.

I am also using the app: Happy Color. It is a fun paint program with new pictures every day. The painting is very relaxing and do not take a lot of time. However there are difficult ones that take a very long time.

Today a travel friend introduced me to Jigsaw Puzzles Epic. I don’t usually like jigsaw puzzles…online or with real pieces. The cool thing about this one is you set the number of pieces for each puzzle. I am an amateur, so I am starting with a low number of pieces. It too is relaxing.

When I was in Boulder, CO I was in a 100mph windstorm. That was enough for me…I can’t imagine 175mph winds and a 10’ storm surge the likes of current hurricane Laura. I prefer high mountain desert.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

If I eat I am fine, if I drink I die.  What am I?

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Historical Events

1609 – Henry Hudson discovered the Delaware Bay.

1789 – William Herschel discovered another Saturn moon, Enceladus.

1830 – The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s (B&O) new ‘Tom Thumb’ steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroads.

1833 – The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 received Royal Assent, abolishing slavery through most of the British Empire.

1845 – The first issue of Scientific American magazine was published.

1898 – Caleb Bradham invented the carbonated soft drink that would later be called “Pepsi-Cola”.

1955 – Black 14-year-old Emmett Till was brutally murdered in Mississippi, for ‘flirting’ with a white woman, galvanizing the nascent American Civil Rights Movement.

1963 – At the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. gave his I Have a Dream speech.

1996 – Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales got divorced.

2013 China and Russia walk out of a UN Security Council meeting after the US pushes for immediate action against Syria's use of chemical weapons

2017 Kenya brings in world's toughest ban on plastic bags with possible US$38,000 fine and four years in jail

2019 Climate change activist Greta Thunberg arrives in New York after sailing across the Atlantic in an emissions-free voyage

2019 Discovery of 3.8-million-year-old skull of early human ancestor Australopithecus anamensis, found by Yohannes Haile-Selassie, at Miro Dora, Ethiopia, upends previous evolutionary theory published in journal "Nature"

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Birthdays Today

@81 – Ben Gazzara, American actor (d. 2012)

@78 – Charles Boyer, French-American actor (d. 1978; suicide)

77 – David Soul, American actor

@76 – Jack ‘King’ Kirby – comic book creator, (d. 1994; heart failure)

@69 – Nancy Kulp, American actress (d. 1991; cancer)

@66 – Roxie Roker, American actress (d. 1995; breast cancer)

62 – Scott Hamilton, American figure skater

55 – Shania Twain, Canadian singer-songwriter

51 – Jack Black, American comedic actor

51 – Jason Priestley, Canadian actor

@46 – Elizabeth Ann Seton, American saint, co-founded the Sisters of Charity Federation in the Vincentian-Setonian Tradition (d.  1821)

38 – LeAnn Rimes, American singer-songwriter

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Puzzle Answer

Fire

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