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Aug 17, 2020 Week: 34 Day: 230 Local: H 90° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind: 7mph\Gusts: 12ph Nearest
lightning: 78mi.; active fire: 59mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record High: 88°[2002] Record Low: 38°[1979] Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"You know you are on the road to success
if you would do your job and not be paid for it."
-Oprah Winfrey
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Random
Tidbits
A team from the University of
Utah have told the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco
that Yellowstone's magama chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously thought.
It is
an underground cavern that measures some 55 miles by 20 miles and runs between
3 and 9 miles below the earth.
If it
blows it would wipe out America - and have enormous impacts on the rest of the
world.
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A little
humor
What do you call an Amish guy with his hand in a horse’s mouth?
A mechanic.
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State Name
Origins
There is no disputing the origin of
Louisiana's name. The home of Cajun cooking and jazz music was named in honor
of King Louis XIV of France, the Sun King, by explorer René-Robert Cavelier in
the mid-1600s.
Maine's name might have originated from Royal
Navy mariners Ferdinando Gorges and John Mason, who received a charter for what
would become Maine and used the name to differentiate the mainland from the
islands around it.
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Observations
This Week
Pueblo Revolt, New Mexico
Aug10-20, 1680
National Aviation Week: 15-21
National Chef's Appreciation Week: 16-22 Link
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Observations
for Today
Baby Boomer's Recognition Day Link
Black Cat Appreciation Day Link Link
Cupcake Day Link Moved to October 26 due to COVID-19
I
Love My Feet Day Link
Meaning of "Is" Day
National Nonprofit Day Link
National Thriftshop Day
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Not sure why but I slept in this morning until almost 7a. Unusual
for me, but felt fine when I woke up.
It another hot day with 90 degrees by noon and still climbing. Cooler
is on.
The morning paper had an extensive article on Off-campus student
housing. Our town has over a dozen such complexes with several more being
built. They are huge, architecturally boring, and have caused much dismay by
the city government and our citizens. Many students signed semester or 2
semester leases last spring, expecting the University would have in person classes
on campus. That hasn’t happened. So students are asking to get out of their leases
sue to Covid and no on campus classes. Turns out, none of the complexes, all
owned by out-of-state businesses have said NO WAY! You signed, you pay. One
mother’s son had signed a lease for 4 people. None could live there due to the
virus. She placed ads for roommates and found four who were willing to pick up
the lease. The property manager told her to have them come in and sign a lease.
They did, but the property manager set up the lease for another apartment in the
complex and still wants rent from the first student for all 4 people. A Chinese
student had signed a lease, then went home to China. Now she can’t return to
the US because of the virus. She has been told to show up and live in the apartment
or stay in China and still pay the $800/monthly rent. I am sure this is headed
for the courts.
My immediate supervisor from my teaching days in Tuba passed last
week at about 85. She was the reason I went into administration. She would pull
each teacher out of class several times a week to ‘catch up’ on school gossip.
These sessions lasted about one class period. One year she did not like how our
7/8 team was working so well, so for the next year, she moved us from one
building to 4 separate buildings so we would have a harder time talking. I knew
I might not be a great supervisor, but I did know I could do better than she
did. From what I hear, I was a very good supervisor. Sometimes we learn from
bad examples.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
First,
I threw away the outside and cooked the inside. Then I ate the outside and
threw away the inside.
What
did I eat?
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Historical
Events
1807 – Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat left New York, New
York, to Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first
commercial steamboat service in the world.
1896 – Bridget Driscoll was run over by a Benz car in the grounds
of The Crystal Palace, London. She was the UK’s first pedestrian motoring
fatality.
1907 – Pike Place Market, in Seattle’s historic district, opened.
1908 – Fantasmagorie was released by Émile Cohl. It is one of the
earliest examples of traditional (hand-drawn) animation and considered by film
historians to be the first animated cartoon.
1953 – The first meeting of Narcotics Anonymous took place in
Southern California.
1959 – Kind of Blue by Miles Davis, the best-selling jazz
recording of all time, was released.
1969 – Hurricane Camille (Category 5) hit the U.S. Gulf Coast,
killing 256 people.
1977 – The Soviet icebreaker Arktika became the first surface ship
to reach the North Pole.
1978 – Double Eagle II became the first balloon to cross the
Atlantic Ocean when it landed in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after
leaving Presque Isle, Maine.
1998 – President Clinton admitted to having an “inappropriate”
relationship with an intern, Monica Lewinsky.
2008 – American swimmer Michael Phelps became the first person to
win eight gold medals in one Olympic Games.
2012 Three members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot are jailed for
two years
2016 Flood waters recede in Louisiana leaving 13 dead and damaging
4,000 homes
2017 Collision of two neutron stars witnessed for the first time
first picked up by US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory
(Ligo)
2017 On This Day helps launch Borneo Dictionary, an online not for
profit dictionary of indigenous Borneo languages with translations in English
and Bahasa Malaysia
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Birthdays
Today
@95 – Maureen
O’Hara, Irish-American actress (died in 2015)
@87 – Mae West,
American comedic actress (d.1980)
77 – Robert De
Niro, American actor
62 – Belinda
Carlisle, American singer, The Go-Gos
60 – Sean Penn,
American actor
51 – Donnie Wahlberg,
actor
@49 – Davy
Crockett, American soldier, and politician (d.1836; at Alamo)
@35 – Mark
Salling, American actor (d. 2018; suicide)
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Puzzle
Answer
Corn
on the cob
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