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Sep , 2020 Week: 36 Day: Local: H 78° \ L 53° \ Average Sky Cover: 20%
Wind: 8mph\Gusts: 19mph Nearest lightning: 13mi.; active fire: 379mi.
Extreme Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 91°[1948] Record: 33°[1962]
Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"The only person you are destined to become is the person you
decide to be." Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Random Tidbits
At various times in
history, left-handedness has been seen as many things: a nasty habit, a mark of
the devil, a sign of neurosis, rebellion, criminality, and homosexuality. It
has also been seen as a trait indicating creativity and musical abilities.
Between 10-12 percent of
people on earth are "lefties." Women are more likely to be
right-handed than men by about 4 percentage points.
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A little humor
"Disorder in
the Court" True statements from court records
ATTORNEY: The
youngest son, the 20-year-old, how old is he?
WITNESS: He's 20,
very close to your IQ.
__________
ATTORNEY: Were
you present when your picture was taken?
WITNESS: Are you (expletive
deleted) me?
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State Name Origins
There
are several Native American name possibilities for Ohio. One suggests that the
name "Ohio" originates from the Iroquois word for "good
river." Other origins claim "Ohio" might have come from the
Wyandot people's word meaning "large/great" or "the great
one" or it was derived from the Seneca word "ohi-yo'" meaning
"large creek".
The
Sooner State's name comes from the Choctaw people's words "okla
humma," which roughly means "red people" or "red
persons."
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True Things
A California man attempting to defend his home
from a wildfire said he turned to an unusual source of help when his water was
shut off: several cases of Bud Lite beer.
Chad Little said he decided to stay behind
when his family evacuated their Vacaville home last week as the LNU Lightning
Complex Fires approached their neighborhood.
Little said he had hoses set up around the
house to provide a consistent source of water to keep the flames away from the
house, but he started worrying when the water to the area was shut off.
The homeowner, whose house previously burned
down five years ago in a fire sparked by an attic fan, said he grabbed one of
his 30-packs of Bud Lite cans.
"That was the only thing I had that I had
a lot of, and it was wet," he told The Vacaville Reporter. "Luckily,
I had a bunch of cases of Bud Light and I was able to get it out."
Little pulled away some sheet metal from the
wall of his workshop and used an exposed nail to pop holes in the cans.
"When I ripped up the sheet metal, it had
a nail, so I was just shaking it up, popping it just and spraying them, popping
it out and grabbing another one," Little told local news. "My buddies
all tease me about drinking water beer, and I say, 'Hey, saved my shop.'"
He said firefighters eventually arrived in the
neighborhood and helped keep the flames away from his home.
Little said his carport burned to the ground,
but his home was untouched by the flames.
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Observations
This Month
AKC
Responsible Dog Ownership Month Link
All American Breakfast Month Link
Attendance Awareness Month Link
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Month
Atrial Fibrillation Month
Baby Safety Month Link
Backpack Safety America Month
Be Kind To Editors & Writers Month
Blood Cancer Awareness Month Link
Bourbon Heritage 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
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Observations for Today
Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day
Calendar Adjustment Day
Chicken Boy's Day
Emma Nutt Day
International Day of Awareness for the Dolphins of Taiji Link
International Toy Testing Day
National Cherry Popover Day
National
Gyro Day
Random Acts of Kindness Day or Be Kind Day Link
Save Japan's Dolphins Day Link
World Letter Writing Day Link
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My Rambling Thoughts
A nice Monday with hopes of monsoon this afternoon. Weather guy says
‘scattered’ showers. Sure hope I am in the scattered part.
Since my office TV’s cable box isn’t working, I’m going old school
and listening to NPR. Guess I will survive and become more educated at the same
time.
The sale of the TicTok app just got more interesting. China has
changed the law so that any sale of Tech knowledge or apps must be approved by
the central government. There sure is a lot of hoopla over an app used mostly
by pre-teens to early 20-year olds.
Trump has added a new member to the Covid Task Force. It is Dr.
Scot Atlas, a well-known neuroradiologist and not an expert in public health or
infectious diseases. Oh, and he has said disparaging things about Fauci and
Brix. Great!
NAU in-person start today. They have 7000 students in the dorms.
The 7 students who tested positive have been isolated in a dorm. They will not
release numbers of employees testing positive, due to laws regarding patient
confidentiality. Seriously, that is their line.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
The eight of us
go forth, not back, to protect our king from a foe’s attack.
What are we?
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Historical Events
1661 – In the first official well-known Yacht Race, England’s King
Charles lost to his brother, James.
1752 – “Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the land unto all the
inhabitants thereof” The Liberty Bell was officially placed in the Pennsylvania
State House (now Independence Hall) in Philadelphia.
1799 – The Bank of Manhattan Company (now Chase Manhattan) opened
in New York City.
1859 – The Carrington Event, a large solar flare (a coronal mass
ejection – CME, solar superstorm) affected many of the (relatively few)
electronics and telegraph lines on Earth.
1872 – Linda Ann Judson Richards graduated from the Training
School of the New England Hospital for Women and Children and became America’s
first Nurse.
1894 – Juno, one of the four largest asteroids in the Main Belt,
was discovered by the German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1902 – A Trip to the Moon, considered one of the first science
fiction films, was released in France.
1939 – Adolf Hitler signed an order to begin the systematic
euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people.
1939 – World War II began with Germany’s invasion of Poland.
1948 – The United Nation’s World Health Organization was founded.
1952 – The Old Man and the Sea, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
by Ernest Hemingway, was first published.
1968 – Irvin Feld opened the Clown College, in Venice, Florida.
1969 – Muammar el-Qaddafi overthrew King Idris, and founded the
Libyan Arab Republic.
1972 – Bobby Fischer defeated Boris Spassky of the USSR. He was
the first American to compete in the tournament.
1972 – Mark Spitz won his 4th and 5th Olympic Medals (he won 7 in
total in the ’72 Olympics)
1979 – An LA Court ordered Clayton Moore to stop wearing Lone
Ranger mask. The copyright
owners did not want any association with him, although he used his fame as the
Television face as the Lone Ranger as a positive example of what the Ranger
(and Tonto) represented. He began wearing wrap-around shades instead.
1979 – Pioneer 2 flew past Saturn discovering an eleventh moon and
two new rings.
1982 – The United States
Air Force Space Command was founded.
1983 – Korean Airlines Boeing 747, flight 007 was shot down by
Soviets in Russian airspace.
1985 – The remains of the Titanic, sunk by an iceberg in 1912,
were discovered in the North Atlantic.
2004 – Chechen terrorists took over 1,000 schoolchildren and
others hostage, in Beslan, Russia.
2008 Spring Temple Buddha statue of Vairocana Buddha, then the
world's tallest statue at 128 meters (420 ft), completed in Zhaocun township,
Henan, China
2015 Pope Francis tells priests to pardon women who have had an
abortion, in a letter released by the Vatican
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Birthdays Today
82 – Alan
Dershowitz, American lawyer, and author
81 – Lily Tomlin,
comedian
@74 – Edgar Rice
Burroughs, American author (d. 1950; heart attack)
70 – ‘Doctor
Phil’ McGraw, American psychologist, author, and talk show host
63 – Gloria
Estefan, Cuban-American singer-songwriter
@59 – Conway
Twitty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1993)
@52 – Johann
Pachelbel, German organist, composer, and educator (d. 1706)
@45 – Rocky
Marciano [Rocco Francis
Marchegiano], American boxer
(d. 1969; private plane crash)
23 – Zendaya
Maree Stoermer Coleman, American actress
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Puzzle Answer
Pawns in the
game of Chess
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