Sep 14

 

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Sep 14, 2020  Week: 38  Day: 258                              Local:   H 76° \ L 44° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   11mph\Gusts:  18mph                         Nearest lightning:  269mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

High Risk of Fire                                               Visibility:  10mi

Record: 88°[2000]   Record: 29°[1988]                  Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s Quote

"An unexamined life is not worth living."

-Socrates

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A little humor

From Actual Medical Records

When she fainted, her eyes rolled around the room.

Examination reveals a well-developed male lying in bed with his family in no distress.

She has no rigors or chills but her husband says she was very hot in bed last night.

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True Things

 A woman and her pot-bellied pig were booted off a Washington, D.C.-bound plane after passengers complained the pig was disruptive and stinky. The pig, thought to be about 70 pounds, had been brought aboard the US Airways plane at Bradley International Airport in Connecticut as an emotional-support animal. Crew members determined the animal was too disruptive and asked the woman to leave with the pig before the flight departed. Some people aboard the plane thought the woman was carrying a large duffle bag over her shoulder. "But it turns out it wasn't a duffel bag. We could smell it and it was a pig on a leash," Passenger Jonathan Skolnik told ABC News. "She tethered it to the arm rest next to me and started to deal with her stuff, but the pig was walking back and forth."

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Observations This Week

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week: 9-15  Link
Balance Awareness Week: 13-19 Link   
International Housekeepers Week: 13-19  Link
Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week: 13-19 Link
National Assisted Living Week: 13-19   
National Security Officer Appreciation Week: 13-19 
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week: 13-19   Link
Line Dance Week: 14-19  

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Observations for Today

Hug Your Hound Day

International Crab Fest Day

Live Creative Day  Link
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day 
National Kreme Filled Donut Day Link  and  Link
National Sober Day  Link

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My Rambling Thoughts

A great Sunday…took a nice walk in the forest this morning. Warm and sunny. Very nice.

NFL is playing. Cards showed up and are playing OK in the first half. Hope they pull it together for the second half. Broncos play Monday night.

Air travel has been basically halted around the world. Thai Airlines decided to open a new restaurant in Bangkok. It only serves in-flight meals and customers sit in airplane seats with pull down tables and cabin crew serve the meals. Customers can sit in business class or economy. Thai Airline stopped flying on April 4, but the restaurant has a steady customer base.

Salmon are getting smaller due to Climate Change and competition. Chinook, the largest salmon, have decreased their egg population by 16% in the past decade.  There is also more competition, so salmon don’t have time to grow as big. Frightening.

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

I have cities but no houses, roads but no cars, and water but no fish.

What am I?

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Historical Events

1752 – Yesterday was September 2nd, in Great Britain and the American Colonies, but with the switchover from the Julian to Gregorian calendar, it became September 14 in all of western civilization.

1814 – Francis Scott Key wrote The Star-Spangled Banner which later became the United States’ national anthem.

1868 – Tom Morris, at Prestwick’s 8th hole, was credited with Golf’s 1st recorded hole-in-one.

1901 – The first bodybuilding contest was held in Royal Albert Hall, London.

1940 – Congress passed the Selective Service Act, providing for the first peacetime draft in United States’ history. Unofficially, they were prepping for joining WW II.

1975 – Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton (1774-1821) was canonized by Pope Paul VI. The first American saint, she founded the U.S. branch of the Sisters of Charity in 1809.

1987 – Cal Ripken’s streak of playing MLB Baseball for 8,243 consecutive innings (over 900 games) ended. The record still stands today.

2000 – Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition (ME) was released.

2001 Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

2018 Former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort pleads guilty to conspiracy charges and agrees to co-operative with Government investigations

2019 Drone attack on Abqaiq oil plant in Saudi Arabia takes out half of country's oil production and 5% of the world's. Yemen Houthi rebels claim responsibility.

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Birthdays Today

@86 – Margaret Sanger, American nurse, activist, founder of Planned Parenthood (d. 1966)

@85 – Clayton Moore, American actor, The Lone Ranger (d. 1999)

84 – Walter Koenig, American actor [Star Trek’s Chekov]

76 – Joey Heatherton, American actress, and dancer

73 – Sam Neill, Northern Irish-New Zealand actor

55 -- Dmitry Medvedev, Russian politician

48 – Nas [Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones], American rapper

@27 – Amy Winehouse, English singer-songwriter (d. 2011; misadventure w/alcohol)

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Puzzle Answer

A map

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