Good Morning, Do! Today is Wednesday, October 2 THANK YOU very much, Wesley! Dad sent me a paper about the newest hydro project they finished this year not far from where he is. It is in an area, where I used to hike and climb. The funny thing is, the creek, coming from a glacier, is rather puny, and I remember walking across it and the water was never higher than my boots. They also drilled through a mountain and get extra water from Tirolia, next province over. That still does not amount to very much water. Yet, they are now producing 253 GWh. The trick is using cheap surplus night energy from the coal and nuclear plants in Germany and France to pump the water back up there at night, and in the morning, when industry starts up while Millions of housewives make breakfast for the kiddies, they dump the water 290 Meters, almost 1000 feet, at a rate of 135 Cubic Meters PER SECOND (5403 Cubic Feet PER SECOND) through the turbine. Imagine a house 25' x 22' x 10', that holds about that many cubic feet. Fill or drain that in ONE second! Instead of an ultra high pressure pipeline they simply drilled down through the rock and even built the powerplant terrorist proof in a cathedral size cavern in the rock. Once they had it all working right, they turned off the lights and went home. It is totally renewable resource. What controlling that might be required occasionally, is done via the Internet from the European central electrical control room in the next country over to the West: Germany. I think that control room is about 1000 Km away. The old joke that with hydro plants the only not renewable part is the toilet paper in the washroom behind the control room, does not apply anymore. If you are interested in that sort of thing, they have a video report of the construction at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvUQ6KxsPhA ____________________________________________________ Today, October 2 in  1925 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images. More of today in history at History ______________________________________________________ 
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 Today's Bonehead Award: Kansas day care owner charged after baby found severely beaten, vomiting  _______________________________________________ If you like the Humor Letter, please vote!  _______________________________________________ There are people who, instead of listening to what is being said to them, are already listening to what they are going to say themselves. --- Albert Guinon (1863 - 1923) _______________________________________________ A wise schoolteacher sends this note to all parents on the first day of school: "If you promise not to believe everything your child says happens at school, I'll promise not to believe everything he says happens at home. ________________________________________________`   ____________________________________________________ 
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 ___________________________________________________     An INTERNATIONAL BONEHEAD AWARD AND a DARWIN Award has been earned by  Katherine Konon, 53, Shawnee, Kansas  Kansas day care owner charged after baby found severely beaten, vomiting  The 53-year-old former owner of a Kansas home day care has been arrested and charged months after she allegedly beat a baby in her care. Katherine Konon, of Shawnee, was arrested Wednesday and charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm. WDAF reports Sarah Braun picked up her 6-month-old son in late June and noticed the child was vomiting and had red marks all over hit head. Doctors at Children's Mercy Hospital said the red marks were a hand print and that the baby was hit so hard it caused a brain bleed. Konon's home is no longer a day car, and the state has revoked her day car license, according to the Fox station in Kansas City. The now-9-month-old seems to have fully recovered, and doctors are tracking his progress. Konon is expected in court on October 4. 
 DearWebby's Tech Support Pits  From: Lynn Re: Long reach routers  Dear Webby You used too big words and I could not understand why long reach routers are safe. Please try again! Lynn  Dear Lynn The initial call, the first step, comes from your computer. That call is a secret whistle, that wakes up the router. Any other noise does not wake it up. Just like your alarm clock wakes you up, but any other noise gets ignored. So, if YOUR computer does not wake up the router, it does not participate in the back and forth hand shaking, and just ignores any other noise. You can have six or more computers quite secretly whistling at each other, but any kid doing "war driving" from the sidewalk will be as totally ignored as if they were whistling at your toaster. Have FUN! DearWebby 
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 Stationed in Okinawa, Japan, my son and his wife were expecting their first baby. I was elated when he called me at work with the news of my grandchild's birth. I took down all the statistics and turned to relate it all to my co-workers. "I'm a grandmother!" I declared. "It's a baby girl, and she weighs five pounds." "When was she born?" someone asked. Recalling the date my son told me, I stopped, looked at the calendar, and said in amazement, "Tomorrow!" ___________________________________________________  Daily tip from Thriftyfun.com Thriftyfun.com font color="#009990"> Empty Tennis Ball Containers If you have a tennis player in the family, save those empty tennis ball containers. They are the perfect size for bringing silverware to a cookout or picnic. You can also use them to hold you tent stakes when you go camping. thriftyfun.Com  ____________________________________________________  
  
 
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 ___________________________________________________ >From Sonya The road by my house was in bad condition. Every day, I dodged potholes on the way to work, so I was relieved to see a construction crew working on the road one morning. Later, on my way home, I noticed the men were gone and no improvement in the road. Where the crew had been working stood a new, bright-yellow sign with the words, "Rough Road." ___________________________________________________ >From Eddy Teeing off on the 12th hole at a golf resort, we stopped to buy cold drinks from the young woman driving the beverage cart. As my buddy reached for his wallet, he said to her, "You're in great shape. You must work out a lot." Flattered, she gave him a big smile and gushed, "Oh, thank you so much!" The next day a different young woman was driving the cart. "Watch this," I whispered. I walked up to her and said, "Wow, you must work out a lot." "Yeah," she replied. "You should try it." ___________________________________________________ After I asked for a half-pound trout fillet at my super- market's seafood counter, the clerk picked one out of a pile and set it on the scale. It weighed precisely eight ounces. Impressed, I asked, "How did you know which one to pick?" Looking pleased with himself, he declared, "I'm psychotic." __________________________________________________ 
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 Today, October 2 1492 King Henry VII of England invaded France. 1780 British army major John Andre was hanged as a spy. He was carrying information about the actions of Benedict Arnold. 1835 The first battle of the Texas Revolution took place near the Guadalupe River when American settlers defeated a Mexican cavalry unit. 1836 Charles Darwin returned to England after 5 years of acquiring knowledge around the world about fauna, flora, wildlife and geology. He used the information to develop his "theory of evolution" which he unveiled in his 1859 book entitled The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. 1870 Rome was made the capital of Italy. 1876 The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas opened. It was the state's first venture into public higher education. The school was formally dedicated 2 days later by Texas Gov. Richard Coke. 1924 The Geneva Protocol adopted the League of Nations. 1925 Scottish inventor John Logie Baird completed the first transmission of moving images. 1937 Warner Bros. released "Love Is on the Air." Ronald Reagan made his acting debut in the motion picture. He was 26 years old. 1941 Operation Typhoon was launched by Nazi Germany. The plan was an all-out offensive against Moscow. 1944 The Nazis crushed the Warsaw Uprising. 1947 The Federatino Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) formally established Formula One racing in Grand Prix competition. 1948 The first automobile race to use asphalt, cement and dirt roads took place in Watkins Glen in New York. It was the first road race in the U.S. following World War II. 1950 "Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for the first time in seven newspapers. 1955 "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuted on CBS-TV. 1958 Guinea, the French colony in West Africa, proclaimed its independence. Sekou Toure was the first president of the Republic of Guinea. 1959 "The Twilight Zone" debuted on CBS-TV. The show ran for 5 years for a total of 154 episodes. 1962 U.S. ports were closed to nations that allowed their ships to carry arms to Cuba, ships that had docked in a socialist country were prohibited from docking in the United States during that voyage, and the transport of U.S. goods was banned on ships owned by companies that traded with Cuba. 1967 Thurgood Marshall was sworn in. He was the first African- American member of the U.S. Supreme Court. 1988 Pakistan's Supreme Court ordered free elections. 1989 In Leipzig, East Germany a protest took place demanding the legalization of opposition groups and the adoption of democratic reforms. 1990 The Allies ceded their rights to areas they occupied in Germany. 1993 Opponents of Russian President Boris Yeltsin fought police and set up burning barricades. 1998 Hawaii sued petroleum companies, claiming state drivers were overcharged by about $73 million a year in price-fixing. 1998 About 10,000 Turkish soldiers crossed into northern Iraq and attacked Kurdish rebels. 2001 NATO, for the first time, invoked a treaty clause that stated that an attack on one member is an attack on all members. The act was in response to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States. 2015 The reorganization of Google into Alphabet Inc. was completed. Alphabet became the parent company of Google and several other companies previosly owned by Google. 2019 Do smiled.