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Sep 24, 2020 Week: 39 Day: 268 Local: H 78° \ L 43° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%
Wind: 8mph\Gusts: 14mph Nearest
lightning: 270mi.; active fire: 59mi.
high Risk of Fire Visibility: 10mi
Record: 85°[1947] Record: 25°[1918]
Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)
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Today’s Quote
"I
have learned over the years
that
when one's mind is made up,
this
diminishes fear."
-Rosa Parks
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Random
Tidbits
Let the cat out of the bag
Who
would even put a cat in a bag? The answer may lie in medieval markets, where
people used to sell piglets tied in bags for farmers to carry home. A shady
dealer might swap the piglet in the sack with a less expensive animal, such as
a cat. So when you let the cat out of the bag, you were exposing the con to
everyone.
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A little
humor
Circumventing the globe is simultaneously
making a one-way trip and a round trip.
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Observations
This Week
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National Singles
Week: 20-26 |
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National
Ballroom Dance Week: 18-27 Link |
National
Rehabilitation Awareness Week: 20-26 |
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Farm
Animal Awareness Week: 19-25 |
National
Indoor Plant Week: 20-26 |
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Build A
Better Image Week: 20-26 |
Nat’l
Historically Black Colleges/Univ.Week: 20-26 |
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Child
Passenger Safety Week: 20-26 Link |
National
Farm & Ranch Safety/Health Week: 20-26 |
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Deaf Dog
Awareness Week: 20-26 Link |
Prostate
Cancer Awareness Week: 20-26 |
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International
Clean Hands Week: 20-26 |
Tolkien
Week: 20-26 |
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Internat’l
Interpreters and Translators Week: 20-26 |
World
Reflexology Week: 20-26 |
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International
Women's E-Commerce Days: 20-26 |
National
Bike to Work Week: 21-27 Link Moved from
May due to COVID-19 |
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National
Love Your Files Week: 21-25 Link |
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National
Employ Older Workers Week: 20-26 Link |
Pollution
Prevention Week: 21-27 Link |
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Observations
for Today
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Remember Me
Thursday |
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National Familial Hypercholesterolemia Day Link |
World Maritime Day |
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My
Rambling Thoughts
A nice warm day after our yesterday’s enjoyable rain.
Question: A country with 4% of the world’s population has 20% of
Covid deaths. How is that country doing in dealing with Covid? Answer from the
President is A+.
As if Covid and a hurricane isn’t enough…Houston is dealing with
massive flooding. So sad.
Thailand has beautiful countryside and several World Heritage
Sites. At one of those sites, a National Park, the government is gathering trash
and mailing it back to the visitor’s who left it. Included is a nice note: We
are returning some things you left while visiting.
Cindy McCain, wife of the late John McCain, announced she is
supporting and voting for Joe Biden this election cycle. WOW!
Our county has had drive thru Covid testing since April, partnering
with ASU. That program may end on Oct 10 as the county numbers continue to
rise. Why? Money. Neither the county nor Flagstaff city government has money to
continue the partnership. The State of AZ has a lot of unspent money from the
Feds regarding Covid, but the Governor does not want to release it. I guess our
governor doesn’t want to waste it on testing.
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Today’s
Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of the page
I have a metal roof and a glass wall,
I burn and burn but never fall.
What am I?
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Historical
Events
1683 King Louis XIV expels
all Jews from French possessions in America
1789 – The United States Post Office was formed.
1869 – Stock market panic due to crashing gold prices caused by an
attempt to corner the market by Gould and Fisk.
1890 The President of the Latter-day Saints Wilford Woodruff
issues a manifesto advising members that the teaching and practice of polygamy
should be abandoned
1948 – The Honda Motor Company was founded in Japan.
1950 Operation Magic Carpet
concludes after having transported 45,000 Yemenite Jews to Israel
1952 American fast food
restaurant chain "KFC" [Kentucky Fried Chicken] opens its first
franchise in Salt Lake City, Utah
1954 – Tonight Show premiered on NBC, hosted by Steve Allan.
1955 US President
Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver
1957 – MLB’s Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets
Field.
1968 – 60 Minutes debuted on CBS.
1971 90 Russian diplomats expelled from Britain for spying
1975 OPEC announces a 15% increase in government per barrel
revenues
1976 Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst sentenced to 7 years for
her part in a 1974 bank robbery. Released after 22 months by US President Jimmy
Carter
1991 – Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Blood Sugar Sex Magik &
Nirvana’s Nevermind were released on the same date
1994 National League for Democracy is formed by Aung San Suu Kyi
and various others to help fight against dictatorship in Myanmar
1996 U.S. President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive
Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty at the United Nations.
2015 Pope Francis becomes the 1st pope to address the US Congress.
Names Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day as his
American heroes.
2019 Nancy Pelosi announces formal impeachment inquiry into US
President Donald Trump, arguing that he tried to enlist a foreign power for his
own political gain
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Birthdays
Today
@89 – Georges
Claude, French chemist, and engineer, invented Neon lighting (d. 1960)
@86 – Jim McKay,
American sportscaster, and journalist (d. 2008)
75 – Lou Dobbs,
American journalist, and author
74 – ‘Mean Joe’
Greene, American football player, coach, actor
62 – Kevin Sorbo,
American actor
@56 – Linda
McCartney, American singer, photographer, activist (d. 1998; cancer)
@53 – Jim Henson,
puppeteer (d. 1990; toxic shock syndrome)
@49 – Phil
Hartman, Canadian-American comedic actor (d. 1998; murdered)
@44 – F. Scott
Fitzgerald, American novelist and short-story writer (d. 1940; heart attack)
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Puzzle
Answer
A lantern
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