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Jul 23, 2020 Week: 30 Day: 205
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H 77° \ L 54° \ Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind:
5mph\Gusts: 4mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 12mi.; Nearest active fire: 67mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire
Record High: 92°[1996]
Record Low: 37°[1987]
Jul Averages: 82°\52° (8 days with rain)
Today’s Quote
"You only live once,
but if you do it right,
once is enough."
-Mae West
Random Tidbits
Approximately 25 gallons
of water are needed to produce 1 pound of wheat. Around 2,500 gallons of water
are needed to produce 1 pound of meat. Many vegetarians argue that more people
eating a meat-free diet would lower the strain that meat production puts on the
environment.
Some scientists consider
the Earth to have entered a new geological epoch, the Anthropocene; an age
where human activity causes more changes to the Earth's ecosystems than natural
forces.
China's ridiculously fast
industrialization and population growth required massive amounts of water. As a
result, 28,000 of the country's 50,000 rivers have dried up over the last 30
years.
Remember these movie quotes?
#5 "Here's looking
at you, kid."
Humphrey Bogart Casablanca 1942
Observations This Week
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
National Baby Food Week:
22-25 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Comi Great Texas Mosquitos Days:
23-25 Link Cancelled
due to COVID-19
Comic Con International: 23-26 Cancelled due to COVID-19 To be virtual
Observations
for Today
Gorgeous Grandma Day
Hot Enough For Ya Day
National Intern Day Link
National Refreshment Day Link
National
Vanilla Ice Cream Day
Sprinkle
Day
Yada,
Yada, Yada Day
My Rambling Thoughts
Today would have been my dad’s 106th
birthday. He was raised by a single mom with his older sister after his father
died on Christmas Eve when he was 5. He dropped out of high school, joined the
Navy, served for 2 years then returned and finished high school where he met my
mother. They were married after her graduation. He was drafted into the Army
during WWII. He helped with clean up in France. He returned from the war,
attended accounting school, worked for Armour & Co. as an accountant. He
always helped out his sister and her family, his mom, who lived with us for
several years, adopted 2 amazing baby boys [my little brother and I], finished
our basement with the help of friends and neighbors, and worked full time until
his mid-70’s. His last career was the warehouse manager at Ridge Home, for the
handicapped. He passed at 80. He was a great husband, an excellent father, who
cared about many. Still missed.
Nice Monsoon yesterday, it kept things cool. Today
looks like more of the same. No complaints on the weather.
I first learned of John Muir when I was in 6th
grade. I learned about his amazing career as an environmentalist and that he
started Sierra Club. Today, Sierra Club has ended its ‘blind reverence’ to him.
Turns out he also made many racial epitaphs toward Blacks and Native Americans.
I always wondered why Sierra Club was mostly white. The organization has
admitted that they have a much less than stellar work environment for
minorities. They are promising to change that. I will wait and see.
I just don’t get it…States are leaving up to their
school districts to figure the reopening of schools. This is crazy. The American
school system is made up of many districts…some large, some very small. None have
the resources to get experts to determine a ‘safe’ opening. The current Federal
guidelines are not even a little help. AZ is planning to open on Aug. 19, but
the head of Education expects that date to move. As a former administrator and
teacher, I know the work done before schools open…contracts for food, hiring staff,
setting up in-service training, developing a school year calendar, setting up
sport’s schedules and practices, accepting delivery of supplies and books…and
the list goes on. There are many laws regarding the number of days of
instruction, required classroom time, having certified staff, class size… I can
not imagine what teachers and administrators are going through trying to open safe
schools when the dates change every few weeks. So glad I’m retired.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
Delete
one letter from the word GROWING so the remaining letters spell a new word. Repeat
this process until you are left with one letter.
Historical Events
1829 - In the United States, William Austin Burt
patented (#5581X) the typographer, an early typewriter.
1926 - Fox Film bought the patents of the Movietone
sound system, for recording sound onto film.
1950 -The Gene Autry Show debuted on CBS.
1961 - The Sandinista National Liberation Front was
founded in Nicaragua.
1962 - Telstar relayed the first publicly transmitted,
live, trans-Atlantic television program, featuring CBS's Walter Cronkite and
NBC's Chet Huntley in New York, and the BBC's Richard Dimbleby in Brussels.
1972 - The United States launched Landsat 1, the first
Earth-resources satellite. The spacecraft was turned off on January 6, 1978,
due to overheating.
1984 - Vanessa Williams became the first Miss America
to resign when she surrendered her crown after (earlier) nude photos of her
appeared in Penthouse magazine.
1995 - Comet Hale - Bopp is discovered, and was
visible to the naked eye on Earth in 1996.
1999 - Space Shuttle Columbia launched on STS-93, with
Eileen Collins becoming the first female space shuttle commander
2012 - Earth had a near miss with a solar flare. Had
it occurred a week earlier, it could have wiped out communication networks, GPS
and electrical grids.
2019 Investigation launched after no girls born in
three months in 132 villages in Uttarkashi district, India, with sex-selective
abortions suspected as the reason
Birthdays Today
@83 -
Haile Selassie, Ethiopian emperor (d. 1975)
@81 -
Arthur Treacher, English-American actor, television personality (d. 1975)
@70 -
Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist and screenwriter (d. 1959; pneumonia)
58 -
Woody Harrelson, American actor
58 - Eriq
La Salle, American actor
55 -
Slash, English-American guitarist and songwriter
47 –
Marlon Wayans, actor
@46 -
Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor (d. 2014)
31 -
Daniel Radcliffe, English actor
Puzzle Answer
Growing, rowing, owing, wing, win, in, I
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