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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
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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