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Aug 9, 2020 Week: 33 Day: 222
86004:
H 84° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind:
23mph\Gusts: 31mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 82mi.; Nearest active fire: 59mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 89°[1990]
Record Low: 35°[2009]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Successful people do what unsuccessful
people are not willing to do.
Don't wish it were easier; wish you were
better."
-Jim Rohn
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Random
Tidbits
Humans can survive 15-30 seconds in outer space as
long as they breathe out before the exposure. Breathing out prevents the lungs
from bursting and sending air into the bloodstream. After roughly 15 seconds, a
person will become unconscious due to lack of oxygen, which leads to death by
asphyxiation. The worst problem would be lack of oxygen, not lack of pressure,
in the vacuum of outer space.
Astronauts can grow up to
3 percent taller during the six months they spend on the International Space
Station. Without gravity, their spines are free to expand. It takes a couple of
months of being back on Earth for them to return to their preflight height.
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A little
humor
What is every
Californian’s favorite part about the winter?
Watching all of the bad
weather on TV.
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State Name
Origins
It
is not clear how Arizona got its name. Historian James H. McClintock believes
the name was derived from a Native American place name that sounded like
Aleh-zon or Ali-Shonak, which meant "small spring" or "place of
the small spring," according to the Southern Arizona Guide.
The
word "Arkansas" came from the Quapaw Native Americans. The Quapaws
were known as the "people who live downstream," or Ugakhopag.
"The Native Americans who spoke Algonquian and lived in the Ohio Valley
called the Quapaws Arkansas, which means "south wind."
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Observations
This Week
National Lemonade Days: 1-9 Link Moved from June due
to COVID-19
National Bargain Hunting Week: 3-9
PGA Championships: 3-9 Link Moved from May due to COVID-19
National Hobo Week: 6-9 Link
International
Tree Climbing Days: 7-9 Link
Sturgis
Rally: 7-16 Link
Elvis Week: 8-16 Link
Assistance
Dog Week: 9-15 Link Link
Perseid Meteor Showers: 9-13
National Motorcycle Week: 9-16 Link
Feeding Pets of the Homeless Week: 9-16 Link Link
National Resurrect Romance Week:9-16
Weird Contest Week: 9-16
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Observations
for Today
Bagel Day Link
Book Lovers Day Link
International Day of The World's Indigenous People
National Rice Pudding Day
The Spirit of '45
Day Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Veep Day
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A nice Saturday. Hoping for moisture. Nice walk in the forest this
morning. Birds chirping, squirrels on the ground.
A San Diego museum was Museum of Man; now it is Museum of Us.
Nice.
The post office has been around a long time. We expect delivery.
Rural America is more dependent than other parts of America. Living on the Rez,
very rural, we always had a PO box with daily delivery. The private companies
started delivering packages to your home…something the PO never did. A friend
lives just outside Flagstaff, on a dirt road. The mailbox is 1/2 mile from her house.
She has dogs and cats and decided to try a home delivery pet food store. Deliveries
were being left at her mailbox, in an open area. She complained. After about 4
such deliveries, she finally got one delivered to her front door. These
deliveries were from a private company, not the Post Office. I get a lot of
junk mail in my box, out on the street…about 100 yards from my home. Whatever
the new head of the Post office is doing, he should stop. No overtime: let the
mail pile up is not an answer. Could it be that Trump does not want mail in voting?
NAU is holding classes online for the upcoming future, yet they
are still charging students a $150/year Athletic fee. There are not games on
the schedule. The other state universities are doing the same, but at a higher
rate. Anyway to get $$$.
Google, Twitter, Facebook, et. al. did manipulate the 2016
election by manipulating search results and Facebook may have sent ‘Go Vote’
reminders only to Democrats. Unfortunate that Congress decided to ignore this
and still isn’t doing anything about it. Nor is Congress dealing with the
Russian interference in 2016, 2018, or 2020. An American election should be
decided by Americans without influence from corporations or foreign
governments. Wake up quickly or it will be too late.
For Americans, the decade census is especially important for
determining redistricting for correct representation in the House. I get that
illegal aliens should not be here and should not vote. However, they are here.
Many of them work and pay taxes, many do jobs no one else will do. Now Trump
has issued another Executive Order that illegals cannot be part of the census. As
American citizens we will have to pay more to help them, yet we will not have
proper proportional representation. This is a mess, it is crazy. Congress needs
to fix it. That is how the constitution is supposed to work.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What
can one person not keep, two can hold, and three people can destroy?
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Historical
Events
1778 Captain James Cook reaches Cape Prince of Wales, Bering
Straits
1803 Robert Fulton tests his steam paddle boat on the River Seine,
France, but it sinks
1848 US Barnburners (anti-slavery) party merges with Free Soil
Party nominating Martin Van Buren for president
1854 Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
1877 Henry Morton Stanley's party reaches Boma, Congo, after 999
days, losing half of the 228 members.
1942 Mahatma Gandhi and 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing
of a "quit India" motion and campaign by the All-India Congress
1945 US drops second atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Nagasaki,
Japan, destroying part of the city
1965 Singapore separates from the Federation of Malaysia and gains
its independence
1974 Richard Nixon resigns as President of the United States and
Vice President Gerald Ford swears the oath of office to take his place as the
38th US President
2001 US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal
funding of limited research on embryonic stem cells.
2017 Giant inflatable chicken resembling US President Donald Trump
placed outside US White House as a political protest
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Birthdays
Today
77 Smokey the
Bear, named after NYC fireman Smokey Joe Martin
76 Sam Elliot,
Movie Actor
61 Michael Kors,
American fashion designer and Project Runway judge, born in Long Island, New
York
@59 Chris Haney,
Canadian journalist who created the board game "Trivial Pursuit",
born in Welland, Ontario (d. 2010; long illness)
56 Hoda Kotb, Egyptian/American
TV host
52 Gillian Anderson,
Actor (The X-Files)
52 Dion Sanders,
Athlete
50 Chris Cuomo,
journalist
48 Whitney
Houston, singer (d. 2012; drown, OD)
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Puzzle
Answer
A
secret
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