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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 101st 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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