Sep 24

 

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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

	National Singles Week: 20-26
National Ballroom Dance Week: 18-27  Link	National Rehabilitation Awareness Week: 20-26
Farm Animal Awareness Week: 19-25	National Indoor Plant Week: 20-26
Build A Better Image Week: 20-26	Nat’l Historically Black Colleges/Univ.Week: 20-26
Child Passenger Safety Week: 20-26 Link	National Farm & Ranch Safety/Health Week: 20-26
Deaf Dog Awareness Week: 20-26 Link	Prostate Cancer Awareness Week: 20-26
International Clean Hands Week: 20-26	Tolkien Week: 20-26
Internat’l Interpreters and Translators Week: 20-26	World Reflexology Week: 20-26
International Women's E-Commerce Days: 20-26	National Bike to Work Week: 21-27 Link   Moved from May due to COVID-19
National Dog Week: 20-26 Link   Link  Link	National Love Your Files Week: 21-25  Link
National Employ Older Workers Week: 20-26  Link	Pollution Prevention Week: 21-27 Link

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Observations for Today

Bluebird of Happiness Day Link  Link	Remember Me Thursday
National Cherries Jubilee Day	Schwenkfelder Thanksgiving
National Familial Hypercholesterolemia Day Link	World Maritime Day
Punctuation Day Link

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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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