Sep 26

 

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Sep 26, 2020  Week: 39 Day: 270                   Local:   H 80° \ L 46° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Wind:   4mph\Gusts:  14mph                           Nearest lightning:  845mi.; active fire:  59mi. 

EXTREME Risk of Fire                                      Visibility:  10mi

Record: 84°[1899]   Record: 22°[1934]                 Sep Averages: 74°\42° (5 days with rain)

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Today’s  Quote

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore, Dream, Discover." -Mark Twain

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Random Tidbits

 Blood is thicker than water

You probably think this means you should always put family ahead of friends. In fact, it originally may have meant the opposite. The full maxim was “The blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb,” with covenant referring to friendship. In other words, it was your friends—your blood brothers, if you will—who were with you through thick and thin

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A little humor

How many dentists does it take to change a lightbulb?
One to administer the anesthetic, one to extract the lightbulb, and one to offer the socket mouthwash.

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Observations This Week

National Comic Book Day	Nat’l Farm & Ranch Safety/Health Week: 20-26
National Ballroom Dance Week: 18-27  Link	National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week: 20-26
Build A Better Image Week: 20-26	National Indoor Plant Week: 20-26
Child Passenger Safety Week: 20-26 Link	National Rehabilitation Awareness Week: 20-26
Deaf Dog Awareness Week: 20-26 Link	National Singles Week: 20-26
International Clean Hands Week: 20-26	Prostate Cancer Awareness Week: 20-26
International Interpreters and Translators Week: 20-26	Tolkien Week: 20-26
International Women's E-Commerce Days: 20-26	World Reflexology Week: 20-26
National Dog Week: 20-26 Link   Link  Link	National Bike to Work Week: 21-27  Link  Moved from May due to COVID-19
National Employ Older Workers Week: 20-26  Link	National Love Your Files Week: 21-25   Link
International Sand Sculpting Championships : 25-10/4 Link Cancelled due to COVID-19	Pollution Prevention Week: 21-27 Link

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Observations for Today

Compliance Officer Day  Link	National Hunting and Fishing Day
Fall Astronomy Day   Link	National Key Lime Pie Day
Fish Amnesty Day	National Public Lands Day Link
Family Health and Fitness Day USA	Nickelodeon's Worldwide Day of Play  Link
Forget-Me-Not Day Link	R.E.A.D. in America Day
International Lace Day  Link	Responsible Dog Ownership Day Link
International Day For The Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons	Save Your Photos Day Link
International Rabbit Day  Link	Seat Check Saturday  Link
Johnny Appleseed Day  Link	Shamu the Whale Day
Love Note Day National Dumpling Day Link	Situational Awareness Day  Link
National Ghost Hunting Day:  26  Link	World Contraception Day Link

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My Rambling Thoughts

A nice Friday with a slight breeze. Great day for a walk.

The massive rescue of Whales who beached is continuing in Australia. Worthwhile work for sure.

Today is Native American Day, also know as American Indian Day. Back when I was working in Tuba, I worked on a committee of Bureau employees that set up a parade, a 10k race, an Native Art Show, and Native dances all around Tuba. It was a great experience. We never charged any fees to participants or spectators. All the work was voluntary. It was a great experience.

I have never been a fan of Wells Fargo. I had a small account while working in Tuba. Very dissatisfied with their customer relations. I wasn’t surprised when the CEO announced in a meeting and later in an email that they couldn’t find qualified Black candidates for high up positions. Living on the Rez, they found plenty of brown, and I assume from the news, Black customers that they could set up secret credit card accounts. They were caught and paid big.

I watched the ceremony at the Capital Rotunda for RGB. She is the first Jewish person and the first female to lay in state there. Quite moving.

The former Playboy model Karen McDougal filed a defamation suit against Fox alleging that Carlson slandered her during a December 2018 episode of his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight." The network asked a judge to dismiss the case, arguing that "Carlson's statements were not statements of fact and that she failed adequately to allege actual malice. "The judge agreed with Fox's premise, adding that the network "persuasively argues" that "given Mr. Carlson's reputation, any reasonable viewer 'arrive[s] with an appropriate amount of skepticism' about the statements he makes." Hmmm

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Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

A boy is walking down the road with a doctor.

While the boy is the doctor’s son, the doctor isn’t the boy’s father.

Then who is the doctor?

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Historical Events

1665 Height of the Great Plague of London as 7,165 people die throughout the previous week

1772 New Jersey passes bill requiring a license to practise medicine

1933 – Gangster Machine Gun Kelly surrendered to the FBI and shouted out, “Don’t shoot, G-Men!”, which becomes a nickname for FBI agents.

1957 – West Side Story opened on Broadway.

1960 – Longest speech in UN history at 4 hours and 29 minutes, was given by Cuba’s Fidel Castro.

1960 – American presidential candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon debate on live television and radio. Radio listeners said that Nixon won, and television viewers gave the win the Kennedy.

1962 – The Beverly Hillbillies premiered on CBS.

1964 – Gilligan’s Island premiered on CBS. Although scheduled for the fourth season, CBS changed the hour-long Gunsmoke to Mondays, displacing the 7 castaways.

1968 – Broadcast premiere of Hawaii Five-O on CBS

1969- The last Beatles album, Abbey Road, was released in the US.

1982 – At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert premiered, in syndication

1984 President Reagan vetoes sanctions against South Africa

1990 – The Motion Picture Association of America announced a new rating of NC-17 to apply to adult films, replacing the “X” rating.

1995 – George magazine premiered, published by John F Kennedy Jr.

2007 Shinzō Abe formally ends his first term as Prime Minister of Japan

2008 Swiss pilot and inventor Yves Rossy becomes first person to fly a jet engine-powered wing across the English Channel.

2017 World's second-largest gem-quality diamond, the "Lesedi La Rona", sells for $53m

2019 US Income inequality widest for over 50 years, worst in California, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana and New York, according to new census figures

2019 WHO announces 800,000 children in DR Congo will be vaccinated in nine days in worlds's largest measles epidemic that has taken over 3,500 lives

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Birthdays Today

@96 – Jack LaLanne, American fitness expert (d. 2011)

@76 – T.S. Eliot, English poet, playwright critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)

@74 – Julie London, American singer, and actress (d. 2000; stroke)

72 – Olivia Newton-John, singer

@70 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener, and environmentalist (d. 1845)

58 – Melissa Sue Anderson, American-Canadian actress

@57 – Marty Robbins, American singer-songwriter, actor (d. 1982; heart disease)

@38 – George Gershwin, American pianist, composer (d. 1937; glioblastoma)

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Puzzle Answer

The doctor is the boy’s mother.

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