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active fire: 16miles|Risk
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Lightning:478mi
Air
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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11-17 Celebrate Community Link Rosh Hashanah |
17-23 Balance Awareness Week Link International Clean Hands Week |
Daily Observations
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Apple Dumpling Day |
National Professional House Cleaners Day Link |
Today’s Thoughts
Each
day starts off cooler, and fall is moving in.
There
were a couple of light showers yesterday. Today look dry.
My
Covid Toe is much better today…no pain.
Christiane
Amanpour started her CNN career at 25. She has now been there 40 years. Great
Reporter.
Unions
in my life…some good some not so much. Union 1: closed shop. I started at a
grocery store and a bagger…remember them?...and in 6 weeks I was a clerk. The
union never saw me when I was a bagger, but,
2 days after being promoted, there was the representative telling me it
was $100 to join, then and then $10/month to remain active. As a bagger it
would have been $50 to join and $5/month and when promoted, I would not have to
join again. Not a great start, as the $100 to join would be $975 today with
inflation. I did get good wages including triple pay for holidays and time and
a half for Sunday. I was never involved in a strike. 2: I joined the BIA
teacher’s union, which was not a closed store, when the BIA dropped all
teachers from Year Round to career seasonal…losing 2 months of salary. We
fought them, had it overturned for 2 years and I got a $5000 check for back
pay. The BIA did it right the second time so 3 years later everyone, except the
principal, was career seasonal. A good experience. Even after becoming an
administrator and unable to have union benefits, I remained pro-union. I wish
the writer’s strike and the actor’s strike in solidarity was over. There are
lots of repeats on the TV, but the union has some very good bargaining chips.
Same for the new automotive strike.
Enjoy
Unique National Treasures for the US …
If you like the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, you’ll love…the National Blues Museum.
Blues music, an amalgam of African-American slave songs,
spirituals and field hollers, bloomed in the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana and
Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Farm workers, migrating north,
brought their music with them to Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis, and decades
later the blues were part of the primordial soup that created rock ’n’ roll.
Both overlapping blues and rock are showcased in Cleveland’s popular Rock &
Roll Hall of Fame as well as the lesser-known National Blues Museum in St.
Louis.
Random Trivia…
In the Victorian era, men with mustaches used special cups.
Pragmatically called “mustache cups,” these specially-made mugs had guards on
them which prevented a man’s mustache from dipping into their warm cup of tea!
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46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human
history. Nicknamed the year of confusion, this year had two extra leap months
inserted by Julius Caesar. This was in order to make his newly-formed Julian
Calendar match up with the seasonal year.
Historic Events
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1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts was founded.
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1787 – Representatives voted to approve the United States
Constitution.
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1914 The VFW (Veterans of
Foreign Wars) Women’s Auxiliary was organized.
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1916 – Manfred von Richthofen
(“The Red Baron”), a flying ace of the German Air Force, won his first aerial
combat near Cambrai, France.
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1954 – The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding was
published.
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2011 – Occupy Wall Street
movement began in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
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2013 – Grand Theft Auto V earned more than half a billion
dollars on its first day of release.
Birthdays with some quotes
@87 – Warren E. Burger, American lawyer,
and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
@84 – J. Willard Marriott, American
businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)
“Take good care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of
your customers, and the customers will come back.”
@73 – Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Louisa Italiano),
American actress (d. 2005; cancer)
“The challenge, whenever you create anything, is
to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish,
the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where
you’re going.”@70 – Roddy McDowall, English-American actor (d.
1998; lung cancer)
70 – Rita Rudner,
American comedian
“You know the
oxygen masks on airplanes? I don’t think there’s really any oxygen. I think
they’re just to muffle the screams.”
“I never panic when I get lost. I
just change where it is I want to go.”
61 – Baz Luhrmann,
Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
“I always have a point of view. It may not be
right, but it’s my own.”58 – Kyle Chandler, American actor
@54 – John Ritter,
American comedian
44 – Flo Rida (Tramar Lacel Dillard), American rapper
33 – Pixie Geldof, English model and singer
@29 – Hank Williams, American
singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1953; alcohol)
@21 – Billy the Kid
(Henry McCarty alias William H. Bonney), American gunman (d.1881; shot)
“I don’t
blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but
then I don’t know if anyone would believe anything good of me anyway.”
…The End for today…
