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Week: 37 \ Day: 250 LABOR DAY-US
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 78° \ L 48°
Average Sky Cover: 60%
Wind
ave: 5mph\Gusts: 15mph
Ave.
High: 76° Record High: 89°[1977]
Ave. Low: 45° Record Low: 35°[1970]
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Observances
Today:
Google Commemoration (Founded) Day
Grandma Moses Day
Great Bathtub Race
National Attention Deficit Disorder
Awareness Day
Salami Day Link
Independence
Day (Brazil)
Labor Day (US)
Observances
This Week:
1-7
International
Enthusiasm Week
National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link
Self-University Week Link
6-12
National
Waffle Week
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week
Suicide Prevention Week
Play
Days
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1813 - "Uncle Sam" was 1st used to refer
to US (Troy Post of NY)
1860 - Excursion steamer "Lady Elgin"
drowns 340 in Lake Michigan
1865 - Camp McDowell, AZ was
established by five companies of California Volunteers and named for Major
General Irwin McDowell.
1876 - Bank robbery by James/Younger fails
(Cole/Bob/Jim Younger arrested)
1916 - Workmen's Compensation Act passed by Congress
1921 - In Atlantic City, New Jersey, the first Miss
America Pageant, a two-day event
1936 - Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam)
begins operation
1957 - Act of
Congress gives the Chilkat Indians
mineral rights to their lands near Klukwan. They are one of only a very small
number of Alaskans with this provision
1963 - American Bandstand moves to California,
& airs once a week on Saturday
1963 - Pro Football Hall of Fame dedicated in
Canton Ohio
2008 - The US Government takes control of the two
largest mortgage financing companies in the US, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac
2012 - US drone
attack kills 8 people in Kismayo, south Somalia
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1251 BC - A solar eclipse marks the birth of legendary
Heracles at Thebes, Greece
1901 - Peace of Peking - Ends Boxer Rebellion in
China
1902 - In Australia, the whole nation observes a
'day of humiliation' and prays for rain, as a terrible drought kills livestock
and threatens crops; rain begins to appear on 10 September
1923 - Interpol forms in Vienna
1947 - Battles between Hindus & Muslims in New
Delhi, India
1977 - Ethiopia drops diplomatic relations with
Somalia
1986 - Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican archbishop of
Capetown
1986 - Failed assassination attempt on Chilean
dictator Pinochet, 5 killed
2005 - First presidential election was held in
Egypt
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
OOPS…yesterday I had about ¾ of this blog completed. When I went
to close another program, I accidently closed Word and lost everything. I could
blame it on the switch to Windows 10, but this was all on me. I find Windows 10
a good fit, once I figure out the small learning curve. Also my sound wasn’t
working so I called my tech support. He fixed it in about 10 minutes and then started
a story about how when you start using a new operating system, there will be
glitches. I told him he was preaching to the choir, he laughed.
Yesterday I went to the Arts and Crafts market in the park
downtown. Nice to see some artist friends and see some great stuff. Today I
headed out to the County Fair, but turned around as the traffic was
unbelievable. There are two roundabouts to get there and they are fairly new.
Obviously people here don’t know how to use them. Traffic on I-17 was backed up
over a mile. It has 2 lanes leaving Flag for Phoenix. There is an exit to the
fair grounds. People decided to make their own lane, to the right of the white
line. So people are going 65+ and some decide to break into the non-moving line
right of the white line. So all traffic in the slow lane of I-17 stops, and
rather quickly. I sat in the mess for 35 minutes before entering the road to
the fairgrounds. I turned around and left as the traffic to the parking area
wasn’t moving at all. I called the Flag
police while waiting because this was an accident waiting to happen. They sent
me to DPS and they said they would ‘get on it’ as they had complaints yesterday
too. I drove back into town on a side road and still no DPS. Hmm.
About the crazy lady in KY who won’t issue licenses. Her job is to
issue marriage licenses. If her religion won’t let her to that she should either
break her religion or leave her job. It’s her choice. It should be noted that
she just recently ‘found’ her religion, according to her lawyer. Nothing like a
new zealot in any religion. Then today a flight attendant who recently converted
to that religion is suing a small airline because her job has her serve alcohol
to passengers. She is sometimes the only flight attendant on the plane, and
before finding Allah, she served alcohol without a problem. She has the same
choice…break the tenants of her religion or get a new job. While I support
employee rights and was even the President of our National Teacher Union, there
is a time to talk to the employee about what is best for all concerned. I saw a
political cartoon where a convenience store clerk was waiting on a very obese
customer holding a giant soda and many bags of chips, and said “My religion
finds gluttony a sin, so I can’t sell you any of this food.” This is a crazy
world we live in.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Below
is a (very) short story with 10 capitalized words or phrases which are anagrams
of words that all fit in a certain category. Can you find the anagrams and
determine the category?
NOTE: One of the answers contains two words.
A recently PAROLED man named Ari was going to ROB A PEARL boat of all of its
FIG FARE. The boat was just off of the SHORE. He put on his BALM and donned his
TOGA to SNEAK aboard. ARI GOT ALL of the NEAT HELP he needed from a safety pin
that kept his toga IN PLACE.
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
A 44-year-old man lost around 50%-75% of his
brain to hydrocephalus (water on the brain) and continued to live a normal
life. Specialists believe the fluid filled so slowly over his life that the
brain remapped itself to retain functionality despite the loss of mass.
During his lifetime, Walter Summerford was
struck by lightning three times. After his death, his gravestone was also
struck.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
Every Sunday afternoon at Koch Field you hear the whir of wind
over wings. The club unlimbers its $2,500 glider and looks for drafts, clouds
and thermals. You hear the winding up of the auto motor as the glider is pulled
by the car with a long cable so it can begin to soar. The flying time runs up
to about 20 minutes. There are 2 sets of controls and 2 members fly at
time. Seven members are checked out as glider pilots. Its only instruments
are an altimeter, an air speed indicator and variameter to measure the air
coming up or down. Bob Gibbs, Club President.
The Labor Union has rejected the new contract offered by Southwest
Forest Industries to the members of Lumber & Sawmill Workers Union AFL-CIO.
Flagstaff needs people. There are 90 positions to be filled for
the field billets for the special census that is to begin on Sept. 20.
Applicants must be able to do a good deal of walking and stair climbing, have
legible handwriting and be at least 18 years of age.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1/3 – portion
of US fast food workers reporting burns at work who are told by managers to
apply condiments to the burns
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @jimrichardsonng Scottish Moments: Red deer graze
on the hills overlooking Loch Carron in the Highlands. Colon Murdoch in the
village looks after these deer and can give you a tour up the steep hills in
his Argocat to get really rather close. Deer in Scotland are sometimes farmed,
sometimes managed by the estates and some wild on the hills.
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…Foreigners
Find These American Customs Offensive…
14. Keeping your shoes on
While you probably think you're doing the world a favor by keeping
your socks under wraps, in most Asian and Caribbean cultures it is expected
that you take your shoes off when entering someone's home.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Mr. Clean has a seldom-used first name: ”Veritably.” The name came
from a “Give Mr. Clean a First Name” promotion in 1962.
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2
jokes for the day
Officer at the shooting range: Get ready, aim,
fire at will.
Soldier: Which one is Will?
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A man visited the doctor.
"Doctor, I have terrible flatulence, I have it all the time."
"Please undress so I can examine you" said the doctor picking up a
long pole with a brass hook on the end.
"My goodness doctor what are you going to do with that!" yelled the
man.
The doctor smiled and said: "I’m just going to open the window up there."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ST.
JOHN'S, Newfoundland - Authorities in Newfoundland and Labrador said a man was
arrested for allegedly showing up at the door of a family courthouse with a
revving chainsaw. The Royal Newfoundland Constabulary said sheriff's officers
inside the Unified Family Courthouse in St. John's saw Jason Collins, 43,
approach the door of the building with a running chainsaw about 9:30 a.m.
Wednesday and put the building into lockdown. RNC officers arrived and took
Collins into custody. Investigators said Collins had been served with
documentation Tuesday pertaining to an upcoming court date. Collins was
arrested on charges of possession of a dangerous weapon and assaulting an
officer. He was sent for an overnight psychiatric assessment. Court cases
scheduled for Wednesday are being rescheduled, Department of Justice officials
said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
A
British woman was sued for biting off a man’s nose after he tried to kiss her
without consent, according to wikipedia.org. Learn here what was the verdict!
She
won and the judge ruled “When a man kisses a woman against her will, she is
fully entitled to bite his nose”.
The case was forerunner of sexual
harassment cases to come and asserted that a woman was permitted to defend her
virtue, by force if necessary.
Supposed
to have made a really unusual plot against Hitler.
Actually,
there was an Allied plan to smuggle estrogen into Hitler’s food so he would
become more feminine and less aggressive according to huffingtonpost.com.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(101) - Grandma Moses [Anna Maria], primitive
painter d. 1961
(91) - James Van Allen, US physicist
(discovered Van Allen radiation belts) d.2006
(88) - Daniel K. Inouye, Honolulu, Hawaii, US
Senator d. 2012
(84) - "Janet"
Taylor Caldwell, English novelist
(Melissa) d.1985
(79) - Ed Warren [Edward Warren Miney], paranormal
(Amityville haunting) d.2006
(76) - Anthony Quayle, actor (Anne of 1000
Days, Lawrence of Arabia) d.1989
74 - Garrison
Keillor, humorist (Prairie Home Companion)
(69) - Queen Elizabeth I, daughter of
Henry VIII and Anna Boleyn (d. 1603)
66 - Gloria
Gaynor, Newark NJ, disco singer (I Will Survive)
61 - Corbin
Bernsen, actor (Arnie Becker-LA Law)
(61) - Peter Lawford, actor (Mrs Miniver, Thin
Man) d.1984
28 - Evan
Rachel Wood, American actress
(22) - Buddy
Holly [Charles Holley], musician (That'll Be the Day), d. 1959
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Historical
Obits Today
Spring
Byington, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride)-1971@84
Barbara
Holland, American writer, cancer-2010@77
Bud
Fisher, American cartoonist (Mutt & Jeff)-1954@69
Keith
Moon, rock drummer (Who), OD-1978@31
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Brain
Teasers Answers
LEOPARD
POLAR BEAR
GIRAFFE
HORSE
LAMB
GOAT
SNAKE
ALLIGATOR
ELEPHANT
PELICAN
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or
disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually
checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains
mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it
and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the
Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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Is All for Now…▲
