Sep 4

 

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Sep 4, 2020  Week: 36  Day: 248                     Local:   H 85° \ L 52° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  6mph                              Nearest lightning:  741mi.; active fire:  90mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: 90°[1945]   Record: 27°[1961]                  Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are ransformed.

Carl Jung 

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Random Tidbits

 Between 1,800 and 2,000 Americans are reported missing every day. This includes both children and adults. But many of those reports are later cancelled.

When a child goes missing, the first 3 hours are the most crucial in finding the child safely. Approximately 76 percent of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction.

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A little humor

"Disorder in the Court" True statements from court records

  

ATTORNEY: Can you describe the individual?

WITNESS: He was about medium height and had a beard.

ATTORNEY: Was this a male or a female?

WITNESS: Unless the circus was in town I'm going with male.

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State Name Origins

Both North and South Dakota get their name from the Sioux word for "friend" or "ally," though there is no definitive proof for this origin.

The name "Tennessee" may have come from Creek and Cherokee words, but it is uncertain where the Volunteer State got its name. Spanish explorer Juan Pardo first recorded the name in 1567 as he and his soldiers passed through a Cherokee village called "Tanasqui."

"Texas" comes from the Native American Caddo word "teyshas," which means "friends" or "allies." Some Native American people like the Caddo or the Hasinais used the word as a greeting. In time, the word came to refer to the area north of the Rio Grande and east of New Mexico.

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True Things

 A team of football players was at the right place at the right time when they came across a woman dangling off the side of a Utah cliff by her hair.

In a tug-of-war style, the Dixie State University athletes set up a rescue operation with ropes at the Sugarloaf in St. George after a man accompanying the woman asked for help.

Video footage, captured by the team's coach Loni Fangupo, shows two men and one woman pulling the rescuee to safety, who soon called for water, while the players stood by waiting for some sign she was OK.

The woman became trapped after her hair got entangled with her equipment while descending down the vertical cliff.

The players said they were in the area gathering at the "Dixie Rock" as they do every year during their fall camp.

"The gentleman she was with asked for some help and we jumped right to it, I think anybody would step up and do the same thing," head football coach Paul Peterson told the outlet. "We had plenty of muscle to be able to get her up pretty quickly."

Peterson said the woman might have been dangling for about 45 minutes before being rescued.

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Observations This Month

Library Card Sign-up Month
(World) Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month Link
Million Minute Family Challenge (September-December)
Mold Awareness Month
National Americana Month  Link
National Bake & Decorate Month
National Be A Food Hero Month
National Campus Safety Awareness Month Link
National Cheese Month  Link
National Chicken Month Link
National Child Awareness Month Link
National Childhood Obesity Awareness Month Link
National Chiari Awareness Month  Link  Link
National Coupon Month
National Disease Literacy Month Link
National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell Education Month
National Food Safety Education Month  Link
National Family Meals Month Link
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also June)
National Guide Dog Month Link
National Head Lice Prevention Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (9/15-10/15)
National Home Furnishings Month
National Honey Month Link
National Infant Mortality Awareness Month Link
National Mulled Cider Month Link
National Mushroom Month Link 
National Organic Harvest Month Link
National Osteopathic Medicine Month Link
National Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month (Gov't)
National Passport Awareness Month  Link

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Observations This Week

Chuckwagon Races: Thru 9/6 
National Sweet Corn Week: Thru 9/5
US Open Tennis Championships: Thru 9/13
International Enthusiasm Week: 1-7
National Nutrition Week: 1-7 (UNICEF-India) Link
Self-University Week: 1-7 Link
Golden Onion Week: 3-7 
National Go-Kart Week: 3-6  Link
Sweet Corn Week: 3-7
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over: 4-8 Link 

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Observations for Today

Bring Your Manners To Work Day  
Cow Chip Throwing Days-through 5  Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Eat an Extra Dessert Day

National College Colors Day Link

National Food Bank Day  Link  
National Lazy Mom's Day  
National Macadamia Nut Day

National Wildlife Day Link 

Newspaper Carrier Day

Stand Up To Cancer Day Link 

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another warm day. Not complaining. As I was driving to my appointment, I noticed several trees that have already changed color. Guess the trees figured out it was September, even though it is still warm.

NAU, our local University, released some interesting numbers for fall. Enrollment is down 5% over last year. Revenue is down $78million and after staff layoffs there are 700 fewer classes being offered. Sounds drastic.

It has been a while since the detention of children at the border has been in the news. That doesn’t mean it hasn’t continued. In the past few months, the US has detained hundreds of children in hotels in AZ and TX. These children are held at the hotels, never see a lawyer, and then deported, usually without their parents, back to their home country. The government claims this is happening because of Covid19…the disease the President claims is under control. The children can’t go outside, are not allowed to disclose their location when they get their one call a day to family. Those holding the children are not Federal employees but are untrained sub-contractors. Because the children get 3 ‘hot’ meals a day + snacks, the government is not concerned. Hotels are making big bucks. Major chain hotels are involved, but claim their individual properties are franchises. Therefore, it is difficult for the corporate office to dictate what the franchise can do. I find this disgusting.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I live in a never-ending sea of sand while I protect triangles that point to the stars. I’m not a woman, lion, or eagle. I’m all three.

Who am I?

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Historical Events

1682 – English astronomer Edmund Halley discovered the comet now named after him.

1781 – The city of Los Angeles was founded.

1833 – Barney Flaherty (age 10) was hired by the New York Sun as America’s first newsboy.

1888 – George Eastman patented his 1st roll-film camera and registered the “Kodak” name.

1893 – Beatrix Potter created Peter Rabbit when writing a letter to a friend dated today.

1900 – “Typhoid Mary” Mallon was a cook who was ‘patient zero’ for a series of Typhoid Fever outbreaks in the early 1900s. She claimed to have never been sick herself.

1951 – President Truman’s address at the signing of the Japanese Peace Treaty (WW II) was broadcast.

1957 – Nine black students attempted to enter Little Rock Central High School but were blocked by the Arkansas National Guard. The next day, President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered the 1,200-man 101st Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division from Fort Campbell, Kentucky, to escort the nine students into the school.

1957 – Ford introduced “The Edsel” automobile – one of the biggest business flops in history.

1972 – Mark Spitz won his seventh gold medal in the 1972 Munich Olympics.

1972 Thieves steal 18 paintings from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in what was at the time the largest art theft in North America.

1998 Google is formally incorporated by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two students at Stanford University

2016 Mother Teresa canonized by Pope Francis in a ceremony at the Vatican

2017 Nobel Peace laureate Malala Yousafzai criticizes Suu Kyi's lack of response to the Rohingya crisis in Myanmar

2017 US President Donald Trump announces Dreamers program, The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (Daca) will be stopped

2018 F.B.I. announces they have recovered Dorothy's ruby red slippers from "The Wizard of Oz", stolen 13 years ago

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Birthdays Today

@90 – Paul Harvey, American radio host ‘Good Day!’ (d. 2009)

@83 – William Lyons, English businessman, co-founded Jaguar Cars (d. 1985)

@80 – Lewis Howard Latimer, American inventor (d. 1928)

62 – ‘Dr. Drew’ Pinsky, American radio and television host

39 – Beyonce [Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter], singer

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Puzzle Answer

The Sphinx…I was fortunate enough to see the Sphinx a little over a decade ago on my trip to Egypt with Focus Travel and HLO tours.

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