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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
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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