Sep 10

 

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Sep 10, 2020  Week: 37  Day: 254                  Local:   H 54° \ L 34° \ Average Sky Cover: 15%

Wind:   5mph\Gusts:  7mph                             Nearest lightning:  237mi.; active fire:  133mi. 

Extreme Risk of Fire                                        Visibility:  10mi

Record: 87°[1990 ]   Record: 28°[1912]                 Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"If you genuinely want something,

don't wait for it -- teach yourself to be impatient."

-Gurbaksh Chahal

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Random Tidbits

 The first U.S. Labor Day was celebrated on Tuesday, September 5, 1882, in New York City, planned by the Central Labor Union. The Labor Day parade of about 10,000 workers took unpaid leave and marched from City Hall past Union Square uptown to 42nd street, and ended in Wendel's Elm Park at 92nd Street and 9th Avenue for a concert, speeches, and a picnic.
On June 28, 1894, Congress passed an act making the first Monday in September of each year a legal holiday in the District of Columbia and the territories.

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A little humor

Question: What did 0 say to 8?

Nice belt!

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True Things

A pair of anglers on a California river ended up calling the authorities when they reeled in a pair of particularly deadly catches -- homemade pipe bombs. John Kenyon said he was fishing with family members on the Sacramento River, near the mouth of Battle Creek, when he reeled in an unexpected object.

"My father-in-law had the net ready and we got it up towards the boat and we thought it was an anchor," Kenyon told local news. "My father-in-law said it's a bomb, and he's like, 'Everybody gets to the front of the boat!'"

The Shasta County Bomb Squad responded to the scene and confirmed the objects were homemade pipe bombs. Both bombs were live, investigators said. The bombs were safely detonated at the scene. Kenyon said he believes the bombs were likely thrown into the water by other anglers. "I think that they're trying to blow up salmon, knocking them out and having them float up and taking them," Kenyon said.

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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

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Observations for Today

National Hot Dog Day

National School Picture Day Link 
Sewing Machine Day

Swap Ideas Day
(World) Suicide Prevention Day Link

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My Rambling Thoughts

Another very cool day. I had to do an annual blood draw this morning. She didn’t need much blood, but had a hard time finding a vein. Finally found one in my hand. It took about 15minutes to get the small amount of blood into the tube. I guess my blood thickened up for winter…haha.

Our local university announced she will not be renewing her contact. She has been there 6 years and still has 2 more years on the contract. She has been in hot water with students, staff, and the city for her decisions. She said she wants to give the board plenty of time to find a replacement. I feel that very few will apply for a job that doesn’t start for almost 2 years. Time will tell. As unpopular as she is, they might find a good candidate and she will just pack it in. Taking her $500K salary + benefits along with her.

Europe’s largest migration camp was on a Greek Island. It was built for 3000 but houses 12,000. There have been long complaints about overcrowding, few toilets, few showers, and inadequate health care. Food is often moldy. Greece also has an extremely complex system to gain asylum. Many migrants were upset by the quarantine due to COVID. Yesterday it burned, taking away more hope from the migrants. A disturbingly sad dilemma.

A few weeks ago, Sturgis held its annual motorcycle rally. Now the state has 250,000 new cases of COVID. The Republican SD governor says blaming the surge on the rally is not science but fiction.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What unique feature do the following words share:

revive, banana, grammar, voodoo, assess, potato, dresser, uneven?

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Historical Events

1608 – James Smith was elected President of Jamestown colony (in Virginia)

1913 – The Lincoln Highway opened as the first coast-to-coast paved U.S. Highway.

1945 – Mike the Headless chicken survived his pre-meal beheading, living another year and a half without a head. (True story!)

1955 – Gunsmoke debuted on CBS-TV and ran until 1975. The radio version played from 1952 to 1961.

1965 – The first National Geographic Special, the 1963 US expedition to Mount Everest, aired on CBS.

1967 – The Who destroyed their instruments during a performance on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour.

1990 – New York’s Ellis Island reopened as a museum.

1993 – The X-Files Premiered on FOX.

1994 Chong Hey swims female record 400m medley (4:01.67)/100m backstroke

2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations

2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland

2012 Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students

2015 New human-like species - Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and a team of female archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa

2018 UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres calls for urgent climate change conference saying "climate change moving faster than we are"

2019 US President Donald Trump fires his third national security adviser John Bolton

2019 Novelist Margaret Atwood publishes "The Testaments", her follow-up to "The Handmaid's Tale"

 

 

2019 Malaysia's National Disaster Management Agency deliver half a million face masks to Sarawak state, after more than 930,000 hectares (about 2.3 million acres) burnt in Indonesia cause hazardous levels of air pollution

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Birthdays Today

@87 – Arnold Palmer, golfer (d. 2016)

@85 – Karl Lagerfeld, German-French fashion designer, photographer (d. 2019)

@80 – Mamie Dillard, African American educator, and suffragist (d. 1954)

@79 – Marie Laveau, American Voodoo practitioner (d. 1881)

75 – José Feliciano, blind Puerto Rican singer-songwriter

@72 – Isaac K. Funk, American minister, publisher, co-founded Funk & Wagnalls (d. 1912)

71 – Bill O’Reilly, American pundit, and author

@69 – Edmond O’Brien, American character actor (d. 1985; Alzheimer's )

@62 – Charles Kuralt, American journalist (d. 1997; lupus)

60 – Colin Firth, English actor

52 – Big Daddy Kane, American rapper

52 – Guy Ritchie, English director, producer, and screenwriter

@51 – Roger Maris, American baseball player and coach (d. 1985; lymphoma)

45 – Ryan Phillipe, actor

38 – Misty Copeland, American ballerina

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Puzzle Answer

Take away their first letter and they are read the same forwards and backwards.

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