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Aug 31, 2020 Week: 36 Day: 244
Local: H 81° \ L 51° \ Average Sky Cover: 30%
Wind: 6mph\Gusts: 10mph Nearest lightning: 11mi.; active fire: 131mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 89°[1950] Record: 35°[1957]
Aug Averages: 79°\50° (9 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"Life is a long lesson in humility."
-James M. Barrie
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Random Tidbits
The largest item ever
found on a menu is stuffed camel. A whole camel is stuffed with a couple of
lambs, 20 whole chickens, and 60 eggs, just to name a few ingredients.
French cuisine, or fine
dining, emerged after the French Revolution. After the conflict, chefs who had
worked for the nobility lost their jobs, so they opened their own restaurants
for the masses.
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A little humor
"Disorder in the Court" True statements from
court records
ATTORNEY: Now doctor, isn't it true that when a person
dies in his sleep, he doesn't know about it until the next morning?
WITNESS: Did you actually pass the bar exam?
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State Name Origins
No mystery as to how the Tar Heel State got
its name. Carolina, derived from the Latin word for Charles (Carolus), was
named by King Charles II of England to honor his father, King Charles I in the
17th century. Carolina would eventually be divided into two colonies, North and
South Carolina, in 1712.
Both North and South Dakota get their name
from the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally," though there is
no definitive detail for this origin.
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Observations This Week
Be Kind To Humankind Week: 25-31
Chuckwagon Races: 29-9/6
National Sweet Corn Week: 30-9/5
US Open
Tennis Championships: 31-9/13
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Observations for Today
International Overdose Awareness Day Link
Love Litigating Lawyers Day
National Diatomaceous Earth Day Link
National
Eat Outside Day
National Matchmaker Day Link
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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice day with sunny sky. Hoping clouds will come in for more
monsoon. It rained a bit yesterday.
The past few days with technology have driven me crazy. First, my
On Demand on my cable box said to call for help. I did, but the automated menu
was a bust. Today I called and did the automated thing again, then finally got
an option for a human. She sent a signal to one of my cable boxes to fix the
issue. It didn’t, but it also messed up the cable box so I can’t watch TV in my
office. After her screw up, I asked for a supervisor. After 10 minutes of
waiting, she said she wasn’t sure if the supervisor was taking other calls or
if no one was in the office. She said they would call me back. She didn’t know
when. Also, a technician will come outbetween 8am & noon on the 1st.
Second, my internet connection through Century Link has been slow. Now it is
just sporadic. After about 30 minutes of messing with it, the technician set up
an appointment for the Sep. 2 ‘around 9am’. Something about there is too much
static on the internet line and it needs to be cleaned up. It will probably be
a vacuum cleaner they bought from China on the internet.
National Intelligence had a vision this weekend and officially
announced they will no longer do in-person hearings with the Congress. The way
they will communicate is through writing since there are too many leaks.
Somehow their vision told them that providing with hearings with something in
writing on a piece of paper can’t leak as easily as an in-person communication
with nothing in writing. Somehow a piece of paper is harder to leak. Their
vision included a tad too much of Mission Impossible, where the document
disintegrates a few seconds after being read.
Now Wal-Mart has joined in bidding for TikTok along with
Microsoft. If they get the company, I predict lots more ads and many fewer
followers.
Karma can be difficult. A century ago, California outlawed any control
burns used by many Native tribes for centuries. Now in 2020, California has
decided that control burns might help in relieving the state from its
horrendous fires. Hmmm.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I am hard to give up. Remove a letter from me and abit
remains.
Remove another letter and there is
still a bit left.
Remove yet another letter an it
still remains.
What am I?
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Historical Events
1803 – Lewis and Clark started their expedition to the west by
leaving Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1837 Ralph Waldo Emerson
gives his famous "The American Scholar" speech to Phi Beta Kappa
Society at Harvard College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, declares American
literary independence from Europe
1897 – Thomas Edison received his patent (# 589168) for his
Kinetoscope, the first movie projector.
1910 Theodore Roosevelt
makes a speech in Kansas advocating a 'square deal': property shall be 'the
servant and not the master of the commonwealth'
1935 FDR signs an act
prohibiting export of US arms to belligerents
1962 – Trinidad and Tobago became independent from Britain.
1993 – Barney’s Favorites Volume 1, was released featuring 27
songs by the purple dinosaur.
1997 – Diana, Princess of Wales, her companion Dodi Fayed (with
driver Henri Paul) died in a car crash in Paris.
2006 – Edvard Munch’s famous painting The Scream, stolen on August
22, 2004, was recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.
2015 President Obama officially re-designates Alaska’s Mt.
McKinley as Denali, its native American name
2017 International Organization for Migration states 18,500
Rohingya Muslims have fled from violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state after 110
deaths, making for Bangladesh
2018 19-year old Indonesian boy rescued after 49 days afloat when
his floating fish trap became adrift
2019 India removes citizenship status from 1.9 million people in
state of Assam, leaving them off its new National Register of Citizens
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Birthdays Today
@81 – Maria
Montessori, Italian physician, and educator (d. 1952)
@79 – Arthur
Godfrey, American radio television host (d. 1983; emphysema)
@78 – Buddy
Hackett, American comedic actor (d. 2003; heart disease)
@74 – James
Coburn, American actor (d. 2002; heart attack)
71 – Richard Gere,
actor
@70 – Richard
Basehart, American actor (d. 1984; strokes)
50 – Debbie
Gibson, American singer-songwriter
49 – Chris
Tucker, American comedian, and actor
37 – Larry Fitzgerald,
NFL elite receiver,(AZ Cardinals)
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Puzzle Answer
Habit
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