Sep 12

 

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Sep 12, 2020  Week: 37  Day: 256                              Local:   H 69° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 80%

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  5mph                              Nearest lightning:  738mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

High Risk of Fire                                               Visibility:  10mi

Record:88 °[1990]   Record: 25°[1985]                  Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"You may be disappointed if you fail,

but you are doomed if you don't try."

-Beverly Sills

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Random Tidbits

 Horses that seem wild today (such as Mustangs) are actually feral horses, usually descendants of horses that were imported to America from Spain in the sixteenth century. The only true wild horse is the Asian Wild Horse.

There are nearly 160 distinctive breeds and types of horses around the world, but the Arabian horse is unique in that it is the purest of all of the breeds.

After horses became domesticated around 4000 B.C., many Indo-European cultures regarded horses as a supreme sacrifice to their gods and often ritually entombed horses.

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A little humor

From Actual Medical Records

The patient was in his usual state of good health until his airplane ran out of gas and crashed.

Rectal exam revealed a normal size thyroid. (Long fingers?)

Between you and me, we ought to be able to get this lady pregnant.

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True Things

 A Largo, Florida man was hospitalized overnight after being shot just before midnight in what authorities said was a game between two men pointing loaded guns at each other.

Apparently, there is not much to do in Largo after ten o'clock.

According to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office, 23-year-old Tony Roe was rushed to the hospital after being shot in the chest.

Deputies responded to the home after Roe and 19-year-old Dylan Harvey engaged in a game in which they were playing with a loaded revolver by rolling the chamber then taking turns pointing the gun at each other.

At one point when Harvey had the gun, it fired, striking Roe.

The sheriff's office is calling the shooting accidental - for now. An investigation is ongoing.

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Observations This Week

US Open Tennis Championships: Thru 9/13
International Air Ambulance Week: 5-13  Link

Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week: 6-12 
Suicide Prevention Week: 6-12 
National Waffle Week: 6-12 
Play Days: 8-12 
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week: 9-15  Link
Popcorn Days: 11-13 (First Weekend After Labor Day)  Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance: 11-13 
Mushroom Days: 12-13 (Weekend After Labor Day) Link Cancelled due to COVID-19

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Observations for Today

Banana Day Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
Chocolate Milkshake Day

Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day   Link
International Drive Your Studebaker Day 
National Day of Remembrance for Aborted Children Link 
National Hollerin' Day Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Iguana Awareness Day  Link    
National Video Games Day

Prairie Day  
International Day for South-South Cooperation Link
International Programmers Day Link  Link 
National Day of Encouragement  Link
National Police Woman's Day  Link   Link
Report Medicare Fraud Day  Link
Video Games Day
Wayne Chicken Day Link  Moved from July 10 due to COVID-19
The Wicket World of Croquet Day Link Moved From June 6 due to COVID-19.

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My Rambling Thoughts

Today would have been my mother’s 101^st birthday. She passed at 89 years old. Still remembered, still missed.

I watched much of the Chief v Texans NFL opening game. I thought the National Anthem looked more like avatars than real people. The crowd was very small, due to COVID. Two pre-game anthems were trying hard to be culturally diverse. The unity thing after the anthem was done well. Disappointing that there was booing from the crowd. While I’m not a big football fan, except for the Broncos and maybe the Cardinals, I have to say seeing live football was a nice diversion from the COVID mess and politics.

Flag is overcast with a haze from the fires in Colorado and California. Thankfully, the haze is high enough that the smell of smoke is not hitting our town. I have friends in Oregon, outside Portland. Two days ago, they were evacuated because of nearby fire. After one night in the evac center, they awoke to find that they were being evacuated again to a place even farther from the fire. They are senior citizens and doing fine, but a little freaked out.

Schools in Tuba have prepared schoolwork packets for students since there is no in person learning until October at the earliest. Parents come to front gate at Tuba Boarding and pick up packets. The only hitch was that many parents were given the wrong packets and had to return to get the right ones. A teacher I know at the high school said their system wasn’t much better. She suggested taking the packets up on TC Hill and throwing them down to students at the bottom of the hill would be more efficient than their current method.

According to a new study, the twenty warmest years on record have been in the last 22 years. 2015-2018 made the top 4. So saddened that Climate Change is little more than a political football as we all warm up…a lot.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

This person has married many women but has never been married.

Who is he?

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Historical Events

1609 – Henry Hudson began his exploration of the Hudson River.

1910 – Alice Stebbins Wells was hired as America’s first actual female police officer, in Los Angeles.

1940 – The Lascaux Cave Paintings, about 17,300 years old, was found in southwestern France.

1959 – The Soviet Union’s Lunik 2 was launched, (purposefully) crash-landing on the moon two days later.

1965 – The Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, for the fourth time.

1966 – The Monkees debuted on NBC.

1970 – LSD advocate, Dr. Timothy Leary, escaped from a California prison and fled to Algeria.

1970 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 16 was launched – it landed on the moon, scooped up 101 grams of the lunar surface, and returned to Earth.

1972 – Maude premiered on CBS.

1977 – South African black civil rights leader Steven Biko died while in police custody.

1978 – Taxi premiered on ABC

1992- NBC canceled all of their Saturday morning cartoons and opted to air Saved By The Bell, California Dreams, NBA Inside Stuff, Name Your Adventure, and a weekend version of Today. It marked the end of all children’s programming entirely on the network.

1993 – Famous Perry Mason actor Raymond Burr died after a battle with liver cancer

2007 (Volcano Eruption) Southern Sumatra, Indonesia

2012 – Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.

2012 Excavators announce that they may have found the remains of King Richard III of England under a carpark in Leicester

2018 Oldest known human drawing discovered, 73,000 years old, in Blombos Cave, South Africa published in "Nature"

2018 More than 3,600 children reported abused by Catholic priests in Germany (1946-2014) in leaked report

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Birthdays Today

@83 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer, dancer (died in 1972)

@81 – George Jones, singer (d. 2013)

80 – Linda Gray, American actress

@66 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter, long jumper, Olympic Gold Medalist (d. 1980; lung cancer)

63 – Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress

@58 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003; stroke)

@40 – Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013; car wreck)

39 – Jennifer Hudson, American singer

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Puzzle Answer

A priest.

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