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Sep 11, 2020 Week: 37 Day: 255 Local: H 62° \ L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:
mph\Gusts: mph Nearest lightning: 804mi.;
active fire: 59mi.
Moderate Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 88°[1990] Record: 30°[1986] Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"I've learned that people will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel."
-Maya Angelou
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Random Tidbits
The year in which the 8-hour day was firmly
established was 1916 with the passage of the Adamson Act. This was the first
federal law regulating hours of workers in private companies.
In the late 1800s the average American worked 12-hour days and seven-day weeks
to eke out a basic living. Children as young as 5-6 years old worked in
factories and mines.
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A little humor
Actual Medical Records
The lab test indicated abnormal
lover function.
The baby was delivered, the cord
clamped and cut, and handed to the pediatrician, who breathed and cried
immediately.
Exam of genitalia reveals that
he is circus sized.
She stated that she had been
constipated for most of her life until 1989 when she got a divorce.
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True Things
A
popular Houston fountain turned into a curiously clean mess when a massive
amount of soap bubbles filled the landmark and spilled out into the surrounding
area. The Gus S. Wortham Memorial Fountain, a Buffalo Bayou Park landmark known
for its dandelion-like shape, spilled suds into the park Tuesday night when
soap was added to the water in an apparent prank. A video recorded by a witness
shows the soap bubbles traveling as far as nearly Allen Parkway. The scene
evoked memories of a prank in 2019 that involved soap suds from a fountain at
Kingwood Drive and West Lake Houston. Video shows the street corner covered in
bubbles while firefighters attempted to clean up the mess.
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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
National Payroll Week: 7-11
Play Days: 8-12
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
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Observations for Today
Hug Your Boss Day Link
Libraries Remember Day
Make Your Bed Day
National Dog Walker Appreciation Day
National Hot Cross Bun Day
Patriot
Day Link
Remember Freedom Day
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My Rambling Thoughts
Another cool day. Hoping the weatherman is right and that things
will be warming up again for the weekend.
Never forget 9-11. One of the few days seared into my memory. I
was at work and staff was arriving saying ‘have you heard?’. I hadn’t but
turned on the radio. Within the hour we were all sent home. We were a Federal
building and no one knew what kind of attack this was. I tried to call my brother
who lived in Manhattan at the time. I couldn’t get through. I called my mom in
Denver, she had talked to my brother when she heard about it, and he was good
and far enough away from the towers. We didn’t hear from him again for another
day. I watched my satellite TV the rest of the day. About 9p I got a call that
we would return to work the next day. Still hard to believe.
Woodward’s revelations yesterday were only interesting because he had Trump’s voice on the tapes. His only motive for holding these tapes for so many months appears to be that he wants to sell his book. It was enlightening to know that the Commander-in-Chief does not trust the American citizens to handle the truth. I wish he had more trust in us. Had he told the truth in February; I would not have been standing in an airport luggage check-in line in Denver in Mid-March to learn that Tahiti would not allow Americans into their country because of Covid. Thousands of Americans might have been able to live, had he told us the truth in February. I’m sure we would have been shocked, we would have been upset, but this country has dealt with bad news before. We have always survived. This country needs a leader that tells the truth and provides a plan of action. Due to his lack of leadership, no one knows who to believe, what to believe, and most importantly what to do about Covid. It is certainly shameful.
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Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I am something
you sit on.
If you remove my
first letter, I become part of your body.
If you remove my
next letter, I become invisible.
What am I?
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Historical Events
1297 Battle at Stirling Bridge, Scottish rebel William Wallace
defeats the English
1649 Massacre of Drogheda, Ireland - Oliver Cromwell kills 3,000
royalists
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or
bad peace"
1847 1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in
Pittsburgh)
1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to
characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam
1941 Charles Lindbergh, claims the "British, Jewish and
Roosevelt administration" are trying to get the US into World War II
1941 Construction of the Pentagon begins in Arlington County,
Virginia (completed Jan 15, 1943). Designed by architect George Bergstrom and
built by contractor John McShain, construction was overseen by Leslie Groves.
1998 Independent counsel Ken Starr sends a report to the U.S.
Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by Al Qaeda terrorists crash
into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of
2,606 people
2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93
to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash
in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board
2017 Hurricane Irma leaves 7 million US homes without power in
Florida and Georgia
2019 Water detected for first time on planet outside our solar
system, on exoplanet K2-18b 110 light-years away, in findings published in
"Nature Astronomy"
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Birthdays Today
55 Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria
(2000-present), born in Damascus, Syria
53 Harry Connick, Jr. singer
50 Taraji P. Henson, actor
@47 O. Henry [William Sydney Porter], American
short story writer (Cabbages and Kings), born in Greensboro, North Carolina (d.
1910; cirrhosis)
@44 D. H. Lawrence, English poet and writer (Lady
Chatterley's Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (d. 1930; TB)
43 Ludacris [Christopher Brian Bridges], rapper
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Puzzle Answer
Chair
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