Sep 13

 

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Sep 13, 2020  Week: 38  Day: 257                   Local:   H 72° \ L 40° \ Average Sky Cover: 50%

Wind:   mph\Gusts:  mph                                  Nearest lightning:  521mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: °[. ]   Record: °[. ]                                    Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

 -Wayne Gretzky

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Random Tidbits

 Famous owner/horse partnerships that helped change world history include Alexander the Great and his horse Bucephalus ("ox head"), El Cid and Babieca ("stupid"), and Napoleon and Marengo (named after a battle) who after its death, had its skeleton displayed in London.

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True Things

 A Massachusetts man who bought a desk for $40 at an auction said a search for a missing knob turned up at least $127,000 worth of bonds. Phillip LeClerc, 60, of Weymouth, said he bought the desk for $40 on Nov. 19 at a Kelley Auctions sale and he went searching through the desk's many compartments when a knob came loose from a small drawer and fell off. LeClerc said he discovered the first envelope poking out from a small gap beneath a drawer and he soon had a stack of bonds that matured in 1992 and have since accumulated interest. He estimated the stack of bonds is worth a total of at least $127,000. LeClerc contacted Marge Kelley, president of the auction company. Kelley said the bonds were returned to a man who said the money will go toward caring for his 94-year-old father. "I've been doing this for 10 years and every day the stories get stranger and better and [more] fabulous," Kelley told the Boston Globe. "The gentleman whose family the bonds belong to, he can't even believe it. He said, 'I'm over the moon.'"

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Observations This Week

US Open Tennis Championships: Thru 9/13
International Air Ambulance Week: 5-13  Link
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week: 9-15  Link
Popcorn Days: 11-13   Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19
National Days of Prayer & Remembrance: 11-13 
Mushroom Days: 12-13 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19
Balance Awareness Week: 13-19 Link   
International Housekeepers Week: 13-19 
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Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week: 13-19 
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National Assisted Living Week: 13-19 
  
National Security Officer Appreciation Week: 13-19 
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week: 13-19   
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Observations for Today

9x13 Day
Bald is Beautiful Day

Defy Superstition Day

Fortune Cookie Day

Grandparent's Day
International Chocolate Day 
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Kids Take Over The Kitchen Day  Link
National Celiac Awareness Day
National Peanut Day 
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National Hug Your Hound Day 
National Pet Memorial Day 
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Positive Thinking Day

Scooby-Doo Day
Uncle Sam Day  
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My Rambling Thoughts

Warming up nicely. Still a lot of high in the sky haze from the fires. Not complaining, just hoping for the best for those affected by the fires.

Fire fighters from Guanajuato, Mexico have arrived in Oregon to fight the fires. Thanks.

The Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program was designed to help those unemployed by the pandemic. Great idea. Unfortunately, it has been poorly carried out; it has messed up the count of unemployed, and now lots of fraud has been found since the states were not prepared to distribute the funds. So sad.

Another frightening statistic was release last week: Suicide rates among 10-17- year-olds in the US has jumped 57% in the past decade. That is a problem with statistics, they give numbers but not reasons. What is needed is reasons and quickly.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A woman is reading a bedtime story to her son, but the room is completely dark.  How is she able to read?

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Historical Events

122 Building begins on Hadrian's Wall, Northern England

1224 Francis of Assisi is afflicted with stigmata after a vision praying on Mount Verna

1503 Michelangelo begins work on his statue of David.

1845 English chemist Michael Faraday discovers the 'Faraday effect', the influence of a magnetic field on polarized light

1898 20,000 Paris construction workers go on strike

1940 Buckingham Palace damaged by German bombs

1970 – The first New York City Marathon was won by Gary Muhrcke.

1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat signed a historic peace agreement (true), ending centuries of discord in the middle east (not true).

1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, buried in Moscow

1989 Archbishop Desmond Tutu leads biggest anti-apartheid protest march in South Africa

1997 Mother Teresa's State Funeral held in India

2012 Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev calls for Russian punk band Pussy Riot to be freed

2015 Governor of California Jerry Brown declares a State of Emergency after wildfires devastate Lake and Napa counties

2017 UN Secretary-General António Guterres says Rohingya refugee crisis now "catastrophic" as 370,000 confirmed to have fled Myanmar

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Birthdays Today

@88 – Milton S. Hershey, American businessman, founded The Hershey Company (d. 1945)

@82 – Lucy Goode Brooks, Former American slave and a founder of Friends’ Asylum for Colored Orphans (d. 1900)

76 – Jacqueline Bisset, English actress

@74 – Richard Kiel, American actor and voice artist (d. 2014; heart attack)

@73 – Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015; liver failure)

@73 – Mel Tormé, American singer-songwriter, and actor (d. 1999; liver failure)

69 – Jean Smart, American actress

@54 – Nell Carter, American actress, and singer (d. 2003; heart disease)

@51 – Walter Reed, American physician, and biologist (d. 1902; peritonitis)

51 – Tyler Perry, multi-talented actor

40 – Ben Savage, actor

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Puzzle Answer

She is reading braille.

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