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You can tap maple trees in the fall but they don't have much sugar in them compared to the spring. It doesn't harm the trees excessively if you tap them in the fall versus the spring but it's not really worth it.
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August 30, 2016 2 AM Update
We should have another very nice evening ahead of us, as long as you get out and enjoy it before darkness. At sunset, look for mostly clear conditions and 75 degrees. The dew point will be 58 degrees. There will be a south-southwest breeze at 5 mph. You really can’t beat summer evenings like that, especially with a cold one in your hands.
As we head to our final days of August, the sun will set at 7:31 pm with dusk around 8:00 pm, which is 1 minutes and 41 seconds earlier than yesterday. Nautical twilight is 8:35 pm for all the star watchers out there. Get up early, and you may see the final sliver of the moon. New Moon on Thursday. The Full “Corn” Moon is on Friday, September 16th at 7:05 pm.
August 30, 2016 11 AM Update
On this day in 1967, Thurgood Marshall is confirmed as the first African American Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Marshall joined a liberal Supreme Court headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, which aligned with Marshall’s views on politics and the Constitution. As a Supreme Court justice, Marshall consistently supported rulings upholding a strong protection of individual rights and liberal interpretations of controversial social issues. He was part of the majority that ruled in favor of the right to abortion in the landmark 1973 case Roe v. Wade, among several other cases. In the 1972 case Furman v. Georgia, which led to a de facto moratorium on the death penalty, Marshall articulated his opinion that the death penalty was unconstitutional in all circumstances.
Thurgood Marshall Biography. http://www.biography.com/people/thurgood-marshall-9400241#supreme-court-justice
Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court Justice: https://chnm.gmu.edu/courses/122/hill/marshall.htm
And in 1974, a powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. Eight are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
The bombs ripped through the lobby of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Headquarters. Eight people were killed and nearly 400 wounded in the blast that went off during lunchtime, with much of the carnage caused by glass from blown-out windows in the surrounding office buildings falling down on pedestrians. This massacre was not the intended effect. The bombing was an amateur’s affair, using far too much explosives hastily recycled from a failed bid to bomb the Emperor’s train earlier in the month. A cell member rang Mitsubishi to give them a warning but did not allow enough time. As was argued at their subsequent trials, the leaders had not wanted to murder innocent people indiscriminately. Collateral damage was to be expected but the attack was aimed squarely at the corporation itself, not the public.
August 30th, 1974: The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Headquarters Bombing. https://throwoutyourbooks.wordpress.com/2014/08/30/east-asia-anti-japan-armed-front-mitsubishi-bombing/