Monday

Football season has begun. Neither of my teams is expected to be in the playoffs, some four months from now. The Broncos started out well with a win. Phoenix is starting to look like a ‘one time and that’s all’ Super Bowl participant. Diehard Phoenix fans watched the team lose in preseason—saying that they were just playing new team members to see who would get cut. Well today was their chance in the real season, and they lost. They must be getting ready to set some kind of record--Super Bowl slot followed by no wins after five games.

My fraternal grandfather was named after a Massachusetts Senator. Senator Charles Sumner was an abolitionist and a close advisor of Abe Lincoln. He was beat up by a South Carolina Representative on the senate floor in 1856. The beating with a cane left him unable to serve for a year. He returned louder and stronger than ever. So I guess South Carolina has a history of electing idiots. Joe Wilson is not the first. I guess we should be glad he only used words. I finally got to Joe’s official website. All that is there is his biography. Scary stuff the bio. He is a member of the Armed Services Committee, Education and Labor Committee, Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Republican Policy Committee and is the Assistant Whip of the House. And still he is the first member of Congress to ever tell the President of the United States he is a liar on the House floor. Of course, he doesn’t have any way to contact him on his official web site.

We made it 73° today with a fairly large amount of clouds kept it nice. They didn’t drop any moisture, but they kept away the heat.

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Random Facts…

If your stomach didn't produce a new layer of mucous every two weeks, it would digest itself.
In Singapore, it is illegal to sell or own chewing gum.


Crazy News …

SHREWSBURY, England – A British man said Guinness World Records is investigating whether his dachshund, age 20 years and six months, is the world’s oldest dog. Peter Jones, 68, of Shrewsbury, England, said he believes the dachshund, Otto, is the world’s oldest living dog after the death of a 21-year-old dachshund in the United States, the Daily Mail reported Thursday. “When I saw this dog had died and he was the oldest in the world, I thought Otto must be getting on to being the oldest as well,”
Jones said of the canine, who has reached 147 in dog years. “I thought it would be good to see if Otto is the oldest. My vet said to me that they hadn’t got any older dogs going to see them. “He will follow me wherever I go and doesn’t go running off. If I go out, I come back and he’s sat by the door waiting. He’s got a bit of arthritis but apart from that, he’s quite well.” Jones said he has submitted a certificate proving Otto’s age to Guinness World Records.

September Month Long Observances

Apple Month…Be Kind to Editors & Writers Month…Children’s Good Manners Month…International People Skills Month…International Strategic Thinking Month…National Honey Month…National Preparedness Month…Pleasure Your Mate Month…Healthy Aging Month…National Hispanic Heritage Month…

**NEW**
Before They Were Famous…
As a teenager, Tom Hanks was a popcorn and peanuts vendor at the Oakland Coliseum. He also worked as a hotel bellman and carried bags for a number of celebs. Tom Hanks also worked as an actor in several plays for the Great Lakes Shakespearean Festival in Cleveland, Ohio.

Whoopi Goldberg actually used to work as a bricklayer and a bank teller.

Harrison Ford had earned quite a reputation as a carpenter before his acting career took off.

Tina Fey (star of Saturday Night Live and 30 Rock) said that when she was 14 she worked in a snack bar at a swim club.

In high school, Will Ferrell was a record-setting place kicker for the varsity football team.


Week of 14 Sep…

Line Dance Week
Nat’l Invisible Chronic Illness Awareness Week
Substitute Appreciation Week


14 Sep Observances…

257 days so far this year…108 days remain in 2009
National Anthem Day (1814)
Nat’l Boss/Employee Exchange Day
*Ancient Greece, the first day of the Eleusinian Mysteries, during which the sacred objects were brought from Eleusisto Athens.
*Nicaragua : Battle of San Jacinto (1856)
*Pakistan : Jamat Ul-Wida (Last Friday of Ramadan) .


BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…

…ARTS…
1899….. Hal Wallis movie producer (Maltese Falcon, Barefoot in the Park)

1908….. Clayton Moore Chicago Ill, actor (Lone Ranger)
1934….. Kate Millett St Paul Minn, feminist/author (Sexual Politics)
1938….. Nicol Williamson Scotland, actor (Excalibur, Robin & Marian)
1944….. Joey Heatherton Rockville Center NY, dancer/actress
1947….. Jon ‘Bowzer’ Bauman singer: group: Sha Na Na

…ATHLETICS…

…POLITICS/Business…
1879….. Margaret Sanger feminist/nurse/birth control proponent—1st Pres. Of Planned Parenthood

1913….. Jacobo Arbenz president of Guatemala (1951-54); overthrown by CIA
1928….. Albert Shanker American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers)
…SCIENCE/Religion…
1769 Alexander von Humboldt, naturalist and explorer

1849….. Ivan Pavlov Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology

Events on this day…

1716….. 1st lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
1741….. George Frederick Handel completed his The Messiah. It took the composer just 23 days to complete the timeless musical
1752….. England & colonies adopt Gregorian calendar, 11 days disappear
1777….. Spanish Governor Galvez issues an act, in New Orleans. He orders the military, and Spanish subjects to "respect the rights of these Indians in the lands they occupy and to protect them in the possession thereof."

1812….. Napoleon occupies Moscow
1814….. Francis Scott Key inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner"
1872….. Britain pays the US $15« M for damages during Civil War
1886….. George K. Anderson of Memphis, TN patented the typewriter ribbon

1940….. Congress passes 1st peace-time conscription bill (draft law)
1948….. Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1956….. 1st prefrontal lobotomy performed, Washington DC
1957….. Richard Boone became the hired gun, Paladin.
1960….. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) was founded by five core members: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela
1965….. "F-Troop" premiers
1982….. Princess Grace of Monaco ( Grace Kelly ) die
1994….. Acting commissioner for baseball Bud Selig has announced the cancelation of the 1994 Major League Baseball season.

Holy Mackerel…
1951….. A seedless watermelon has been developed at Purdue University it is round and will weigh about 8 to 10 pounds,

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What word is being defined?
1. a tree that rises above the surrounding forest
2. having the size, form, or characteristics of a tree; treelike.
3. the clipping or trimming of live shrubs or trees into decorative shapes, as of animals.
4. having an abundance of bushes, shrubs, or trees
5. relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions.
6. a thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark
7. a tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots.
8. a broad passageway bordered by trees.
9. shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season.
10. a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees.
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Here are the words—now just match them up.
arborescent avenue bosky chaparral coppice deciduous emergent pollard sylvan topiary
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Answers:
1. emergent: a tree that rises above the surrounding forest
2. arborescent: having the size, form, or characteristics of a tree; treelike.
3. topiary: the clipping or trimming of live shrubs or trees into decorative shapes, as of animals.
4. bosky: having an abundance of bushes, shrubs, or trees.
5. sylvan: relating to or characteristic of woods or forest regions.
6. coppice: a thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark
7. pollard: a tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots.
8. avenue: a broad passageway bordered by trees.
9. deciduous: shedding or losing foliage at the end of the growing season
10. chaparral: a dense impenetrable thicket of shrubs or dwarf trees.

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