Aug 31

 

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Aug 31, 2020  Week: 36  Day: 244                 Local:   H 81° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 30%

Wind:   6mph\Gusts:  10mph                           Nearest lightning:  11mi.; active fire:  131mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: 89°[1950]   Record: 35°[1957]                  Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s Quote

"Life is a long lesson in humility." 

-James M. Barrie

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Random Tidbits

The largest item ever found on a menu is stuffed camel. A whole camel is stuffed with a couple of lambs, 20 whole chickens, and 60 eggs, just to name a few ingredients.

 

French cuisine, or fine dining, emerged after the French Revolution. After the conflict, chefs who had worked for the nobility lost their jobs, so they opened their own restaurants for the masses.

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A little humor

"Disorder in the Court" True statements from court records

 

ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?

WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?

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State Name Origins

No mystery as to how the Tar Heel State got its name. Carolina, derived from the Latin word for Charles (Carolus), was named by King Charles II of England to honor his father, King Charles I in the 17th century. Carolina would eventually be divided into two colonies, North and South Carolina, in 1712.

Both North and South Dakota get their name from the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally," though there is no definitive detail for this origin.

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Observations This Week

Be Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
Chuckwagon Races: 29-9/6 
National Sweet Corn Week: 30-9/5
US Open Tennis Championships: 31-9/13

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Observations for Today

International Overdose Awareness Day Link
Love Litigating Lawyers Day
National Diatomaceous Earth Day  Link
National Eat Outside Day

National Matchmaker Day  Link

National Trail Mix Day

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My Rambling Thoughts

Nice day with sunny sky. Hoping clouds will come in for more monsoon. It rained a bit yesterday.

The past few days with technology have driven me crazy. First, my On Demand on my cable box said to call for help. I did, but the automated menu was a bust. Today I called and did the automated thing again, then finally got an option for a human. She sent a signal to one of my cable boxes to fix the issue. It didn’t, but it also messed up the cable box so I can’t watch TV in my office. After her screw up, I asked for a supervisor. After 10 minutes of waiting, she said she wasn’t sure if the supervisor was taking other calls or if no one was in the office. She said they would call me back. She didn’t know when. Also, a technician will come outbetween 8am & noon on the 1^st. Second, my internet connection through Century Link has been slow. Now it is just sporadic. After about 30 minutes of messing with it, the technician set up an appointment for the Sep. 2 ‘around 9am’. Something about there is too much static on the internet line and it needs to be cleaned up. It will probably be a vacuum cleaner they bought from China on the internet.  

National Intelligence had a vision this weekend and officially announced they will no longer do in-person hearings with the Congress. The way they will communicate is through writing since there are too many leaks. Somehow their vision told them that providing with hearings with something in writing on a piece of paper can’t leak as easily as an in-person communication with nothing in writing. Somehow a piece of paper is harder to leak. Their vision included a tad too much of Mission Impossible, where the document disintegrates a few seconds after being read.

Now Wal-Mart has joined in bidding for TikTok along with Microsoft. If they get the company, I predict lots more ads and many fewer followers.

Karma can be difficult. A century ago, California outlawed any control burns used by many Native tribes for centuries. Now in 2020, California has decided that control burns might help in relieving the state from its horrendous fires. Hmmm.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I am hard to give up.  Remove a letter from me and abit remains. 

Remove another letter and there is still a bit left.

Remove yet another letter an it still remains.

What am I?

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Historical Events

1803 – Lewis and Clark started their expedition to the west by leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson gives his famous "The American Scholar" speech to Phi Beta Kappa Society at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, declares American literary independence from Europe

1897 – Thomas Edison received his patent (# 589168) for his Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.

1910 Theodore Roosevelt makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be 'the servant and not the master of the commonwealth'

1935 FDR signs an act prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents

1962 – Trinidad and Tobago became independent from Britain.

1993 – Barney’s Favorites Volume 1, was released featuring 27 songs by the purple dinosaur.

1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed (with driver Henri Paul) died in a car crash in Paris.

2006 – Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, was recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

2015 President Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt. McKinley as Denali, its native American name

2017 International Organization for Migration states 18,500 Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state after 110 deaths, making for Bangladesh

2018 19-year old Indonesian boy rescued after 49 days afloat when his floating fish trap became adrift

2019 India removes citizenship status from 1.9 million people in state of Assam, leaving them off its new National Register of Citizens

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Birthdays Today

@81 – Maria Montessori, Italian physician, and educator (d. 1952)

@79 – Arthur Godfrey, American radio television host (d. 1983; emphysema)

@78 – Buddy Hackett, American comedic actor (d. 2003; heart disease)

@74 – James Coburn, American actor (d. 2002; heart attack)

71 – Richard Gere, actor

@70 – Richard Basehart, American actor (d. 1984; strokes)

50 – Debbie Gibson, American singer-songwriter

49 – Chris Tucker, American comedian, and actor

37 – Larry Fitzgerald, NFL elite receiver,(AZ Cardinals)

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Puzzle Answer

Habit

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