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Aug 14, 2020 Week: 33 Day: 227
86004:
H 88° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind:
3mph\Gusts: 10mph Visibility:
10mi
Nearest lightning: 15mi.; Nearest active fire: 59mi.
High Risk of Fire
Record High: 89°[2002]
Record Low: 33°[1976]
Jul Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Life is either a daring adventure or
nothing at all."
-Helen Keller
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Random
Tidbits
The ferret was domesticated several thousand years ago
to help hunters flush rabbits from their holes and also to catch small animals
such as rats and mice.
Today, the ferret is the
most popular companion mammal in the U.S. behind the dog and cat.
Ferrets belong to the
weasel (Mustelidae) family. Besides weasels and ferrets, this group of animals
also includes minks, otters, and badgers as well as polecats and sables.
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A little
humor
Las
Vegas: All the amenities of modern society in a habitat unfit to grow a tomato.
**
Traveling
outside Taos, a man comes upon a Native American lying in the middle of the
road with his ear pressed against the blacktop. “What are you doing?” asks the man.
The
tribesman replies, “Woman, late 30s, three kids, one barking dog in late model,
four-door station wagon, traveling at 65 mph.”
“Amazing!
You can tell all of that just by listening to the ground?”
“No,”
says the Native American. “They ran over me five minutes ago.”
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State Name
Origins
Idaho,
a state made famous in a B-52s song, may sound like a Native American name, but
the word is made up. "Idaho" was created by mining lobbyist George M.
Willing, who insisted it was a Native American Shoshone expression meaning
"gem of the mountains" for the area around Pike's Peak. By the time
it was discovered the name was phoney, it was already being used.
The
Prairie State gets its official name from Native Americans. Illinois comes from
"Illiniwek," which is what the Illini people were called. The name
means "best people." Illinois is the spelling we use for the
indigenous people the French explorers encountered in the region in the late
17th century.
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Observations
This Week
Sturgis Rally: 7-16 Link
Elvis Week: 8-16 Link
Assistance
Dog Week: 9-15 Link Link
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
Safe and Sound Week: 10-16 Link
US
Amateur Golf Week: 10-16
Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico Aug10-20, 1680
National Aviation Week: 15-21
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Observations
for Today
Kool-Aid Days Link
Military Marriage Day Link
National Navajo Code Talkers Day
Shop Online For Groceries Day
V-J Day
World Calligraphy Day Link
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My
Rambling Thoughts
No moisture yesterday, but weather guy says probably today.
Hopeful.
This is high fire season. We have been lucky, so far. Coconino
National Forest is concerned. Open fire restrictions are back in place after a 3-week
hiatus. No moisture has consequences.
I took many classes while working on my Master’s. Several dealt
with race, minorities, and assimilation. I have to admit I’m a tad confused.
Kamala Harris identifies herself as African American, but her lineage is Indian
(from India) and Jamaican. While about 90% of Jamaicans have African ancestry,
it just seems odd to me that she does not claim Jamaican. It really does not really matter. I am excited
to hear more about the Democratic plan for defeating Trump and for the path
they want to put America back on.
I listened to an interesting interview on NPR. It was regarding
the opening of public schools in the US this fall. The districts are being
given ‘suggestions’ on how to open the schools. Each one has a phrase like ‘when
possible’. The doctor being interviewed
believed that the government should be giving a ‘playbook’ on opening schools.
Science should be determining the necessary criteria to open schools. Science
does not us terms like ‘when possible’. Can you imagine a scientist telling
an orbiting astronaut to wear a space suit when you leave the space capsule, whenever
possible. This virus has never been studied before. Mistakes will be made.
Lessons should be learned. A playbook can change after new information is found.
Suggestions is not now, nor will they ever be satisfactory.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
What
belongs to you but other people use it more than you do?
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Historical
Events
1888 – An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan’s
“The Lost Chord”, one of the first recordings of music ever made, was played
during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison’s phonograph in London,
England.
1893 – France became the first country to introduce motor vehicle
registration.
1933 – Oxydol’s Own Ma Perkins debuted on Cincinnati’s WLW and
became the first successful national radio soap opera.
1935 – Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act.
1945 – Japan accepted the Allied terms of surrender in World War
II. V-J Day.
1959 – Founding and first official meeting of the American
Football League.
1975 – The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release
in film history, opened at the USA Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles,
California.
1980 – Lech Walesa led the first strike at the Gdansk, Poland
shipyards.
1994 – Inside The Actors Studio made its debut on Bravo
2010 – The first-ever Youth Olympic Games were held in Singapore.
2013 – Egypt declared a state of emergency as security forces
killed hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
2017 US President Donald Trump condemns racist violence at the
White House after criticism of his earlier response to Charlottesville violence
2017 Cholera has now infected more than 500,000 people in Yemen
and killed over 2,000 according to the World Health Organisation
2018 2.3 million estimated Venezuelans have left crisis-hit
Venezuela since 2015 according to the UN
2019 "It is raining plastic," survey published, plastic
found in 90% of rain samples taken in Colorado by the US Department of the
Interior and US Geological Survey
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Birthdays
Today
@90 – [Armando Joseph ]Buddy Greco,
American singer, and pianist (d. 2017)
@84 – Alice
Ghostley, American character actress (d. 2007)
79 – David
Crosby, American singer-songwriter
75 – Steve
Martin, American actor, comedian and screenwriter
74 – Susan Saint
James, American actress
74 – Danielle
Steel, American author
70 – Gary Larson,
American cartoonist, The Far Side
61 – Earvin Magic
Johnson, American basketball player
54 – Halle Berry,
American model, and actress, Miss World United States 1986
52 – Catherine
Bell, English-American actress
37 – Mila Kunis,
Ukrainian-American actress
@36 – Doc
Holliday, American dentist, and gambler (d. 1887; TB)
33 – Tim Tebow,
American football and baseball player
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Puzzle
Answer
Your
name
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