Aug 3

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Aug 3, 2020 Week: 32 Day: 216

86004:   H 88° \ L 57° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%

Wind:   16mph\Gusts: 24 mph  Visibility:  10mi

Nearest lightning:  162mi.; Nearest active fire:  67mi. 

High Risk of Fire          

Record High: 91°[1994]   Record Low: 37°[1956]

Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it."

-Henry David Thoreau

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Random Tidbits

 Food and sex have been linked throughout history. Some foods are thought to have sexual powers because they resemble human genitals. Casanova was said to offer oysters to his potential partners to whet their sexual appetite.

Several ancient cultures viewed the apple as a feminine symbol and found a resemblance between the two halves of a vertically cut apple to the female genital system. Alternatively, an apple cut horizontally resembled a pentagram, which was considered key in revealing knowledge of good and evil.

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A little humor

Question: Why is the letter B so cool?

 

Because it's sitting in the middle of the AC!

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Observations This Month

National Breastfeeding Month Link
National Catfish Month 
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National Crayon Collection Month  
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National Goat Cheese Month Link
National Immunization Awareness Month 
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National Panini Month  
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Nat’l Political Affiliation Discrimination Awareness Month Link
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
National Read A Romance Novel Month

National Spinal Muscular Atrophy Awareness Month
National Traffic Awareness Month
National Truancy Prevention Month 
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National Water Quality Month  
Link (Also in May)
National Wellness Month 
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National Win With Civility Month
Neurosurgery Outreach Month

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Observations This Week

World Rope Skipping Week thru 8/3  Link
National Little League Baseball Week: Thru 23  Link   Cancelled due to COVID-19
Gallup Internat’l Tribal Indian Powwow: thru 8/11 Link Canceled: Covid
International Clown Week: 1-7 Link
National Cleanse Your Skin Week: 1-7 
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National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due to COVID-19
National Minority Donor Awareness Week: 1-7

Simplify Your Life Week: 1-7
World Breastfeeding Week: 1-7 Link
National Exercise With Your Child Week: 2-8
Knights of Columbus Family Week: 2-8  

National Button Week: 2-8 Link
National Farmers' Market Week: 2-8  Link 
National Health Center Week: 2-8 
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Single Working Women's Week: 2-8  Link
Stop on Red Week: 2-8 Link
Exhibitor Appreciation Week: 3-7 
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National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9  

National Psychic Week: 3-7 Link  Link  
Old Fiddlers' Week: 3-8
PGA Championships: 3-9 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19

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Observations for Today

Friendship Day Link 
Grab Some Nuts Day

National IPA Day

Watermelon Day  Link

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My Rambling Thoughts

Yesterday’s monsoon cooled things off nicely. Warming up now, hoping for more monsoon later this afternoon.

Enjoyed the Sunday news programing. Dragon Capsule recover is remarkably interesting. I thought it took a long time to get off an airplane after a long international flight…guess I was wrong.

Several AZ school districts are getting ready for opening classrooms. Parents must sign a waiver regarding Covid exposure and possible illness before the child can attend class. I do not like this new normal.

RNC is keeping everyone guessing…about press coverage. At first, they said there would be no press inside during the convention. Then it changed to during voting, and now it is still to be determined. Guess we will all wait.

It is always difficult to live in Florida during hurricane season. As Hurricane IIsaias moves to Florida, it is exceedingly difficult due to Covid. I am sure they will do their best. I have several friends in Florida, but none in the path.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What is the only number whose letters are in alphabetical order?

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Historical Events

1492 – Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain towards, he expected, Asia.

1769 – The La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California were discovered.

1852 – Harvard University won the first Boat Race against Yale University. The race was the first American intercollegiate athletic event

1926 – The first traffic lights in Great Britain were installed at Piccadilly Circus.

1936 – Jesse Owens won the 100-meter dash, beating ‘the world’s fastest man’ Ralph Metcalfe at the Berlin Olympics.

1946 – Santa Claus Land, the first modern themed amusement park, opened in Santa Claus, Indiana, United States.

1958 – The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus traveled under the Arctic ice cap.

1977 – Tandy Corporation announced the TRS-80, one of the world’s first mass-produced personal computers. The basic model originally shipped with 4 KB of RAM.

1997 – The tallest free-standing structure in the Southern Hemisphere, Sky Tower in downtown Auckland, New Zealand, opened.

2001 US President George W. Bush signs into law the Iran and Libya Sanctions Act (ILSA) Extension Act of 2001

2004 The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks

2012 United Nations General Assembly reproaches The United Nations Security Council over its lack of action in Syria

2015 US President Obama unveils his Clean Power Plan to cut greenhouse gases

2015 Chilean-born author Isabel Allende receives the US Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama

2019 Suspected domestic terrorist shoots and kills 22 and injures 24 at a Walmart store in El Paso, Texas; Gunman kills nine and injures 27 at a bar in Dayton, Ohio, in 2nd mass shooting in 24 hours in the US

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Birthdays Today

@94 – P. D. James [Phyllis Dorothy James, Baroness James of Holland Park], English author (d. 2014)

94 – Tony Bennett [Anthony Dominick Benedetto], singer

@80 – Gordon Scott [Gordon Merrill Werschkul], American actor (died in 2007)

80 – Jimmie Nicol, English drummer

80 – Martin Sheen, American actor

79 – Martha Stewart, American businesswoman, founded Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia

@70 – John T. Scopes, American educator (d. 1970; cancer)

69 – John Landis, American director, producer and screenwriter

42 – Tom Brady, NFL

35 – Ryan Lochte, American swimmer

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Puzzle Answer

Forty

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