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9.20.16 Week: 38 \ Day: 264
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 79° \
L 40° Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts: 13mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 83°[2000] Record Low: 23°[1971]
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Quote of the Day
Don't watch the clock; do what it
does. Keep going. ~Sam Levenson
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Observances Today
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Get Ready Day Link
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National IT Professionals Day
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UN Opening of General Assembly
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Observances This Week
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18-24
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Build A Better Image Week
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18-24 Link
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Child Passenger Safety Week
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18-24
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National Security Officer Appreciation Week
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18-24 Link
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Pollution Prevention Week
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
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National Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
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18-24) Link
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National Dog Week
National Historically Black Colleges &
Universities Week
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18-24
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National Keep Kids Creative Week
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18-24
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Remember to Register to Vote Week
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18-24 Link
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Sea Otter Awareness Week
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18-24
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Tolkien Week
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18-24
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World Reflexology Week
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18-25 Link
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Deaf Dog Awareness Week
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18-24
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International Interpreters and Translators Week
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19-25 Link
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International Week of the Deaf
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19-25
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International Women's E-Commerce Days
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19-23 Link
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National Love Your Files Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
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451 Roman
General Flavius Aetius defeats Attila the Hun at The Battle of the
Catalaunian Plainsat (Chalons-sur-Marne), halting Hun invasion of Roman Gaul
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622 Islamic
Prophet Muhammed/Abu Bakr arrives in Jathrib (Medina)
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1664 Maryland
passes 1st anti-amalgamation law to stop intermarriage of English women &
black men
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1746 Bonnie
Prince Charlie flees to France from Scotland
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1797 US
frigate Constitution (Old Ironsides) launched in Boston
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1814 "Star
Spangled Banner" published as a song, lyrics by Francis Scott Key, tune
by John Stafford Smith
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1839 1st
railroad in Netherland opens (Amsterdam-Haarlem)
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1848 The
American Association for the Advancement of Science is created.
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1859 George
Simpson patents electric range
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1873 Panic
sweeps NY Stock Exchange (railroad bond default/bank failure) NY shut banks
for 10 days due to a bank scandal
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1877 Chase
National Bank opens in NYC (later merges into Chase Manhattan)
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1879 Ulysses
S. Grant and family go to SF for elaborate extended visit
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1881 Chester
A. Arthur sworn in as 21st president
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1884 Equal
Rights Party nominates female candidates for US President and Vice President
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1926 Bugs
Moran attempts to assassinate Al Capone in a drive-by shooting
but fails
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1932 Gandhi begins
hunger strike against treatment of untouchables
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1945 German
rocket engineers begin work in US
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1946 Churchill
argues for a 'United States of Europe'
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1954 1st
FORTRAN computer program run
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1961 James
Meredith refused access as a student in Mississippi
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1963 JFK proposes
a joint US-Soviet voyage to the moon
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1969 Archies'
"Sugar Sugar"
hits #1
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1973 Billie
Jean King beats Bobby Riggs in battle-of-sexes tennis match
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1976 Playboy
releases Jimmy Carter's interview that he lusts for women
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1979 Lee
Iacocca is elected president of the Chrysler Corporation.
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1984 Suicide
car bomb attacks US Embassy annex in Beirut, kills 23
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1985 Walt
Disney World's 200-millionth guest
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1988 Greg
Louganis wins Olympic gold medal in springboard diving
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2001 In an
address to a joint session of Congress and the American people, U.S. President
George W. Bush declares a "war on terror".
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2011 The
United States ends its "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, allowing gay
men and women to serve openly for the first time.
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2013 Grand
Theft Auto becomes the fastest entertainment product to reach $1 Billion in
sales
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2015 Pope Francis meets Fidel
Castro in Havana, on the 1st day of his tour of Cuba
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2015 Martin
Shkreli, CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, confirms raising the price of
toxoplasmosis drug Daraprim by 5,000%
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My Rambling Thoughts
Today
is my service comp date…something long time Federal employees have emblazed in
their memory. Today, in 1971, I started my career with the Bureau of Indian
Affairs. I had a wonderful opportunity to meet so many people, learn so much
about a different culture. I could have never
imagined, as I stood in Gallup and raised my right hand and took the oath to be
a good American, what was in store. Thirty-six years, teaching, supervising,
and enjoying my career. I worked with motivated students and teachers…who only
wanted to give students a choice. I still see people from my early teaching
days…both students and staff. It was a great career I wouldn’t trade for
anything.
On
a much sadder note, today, in 1994, my father passed at 80 years old, following
a short illness. My mom, brother, and I were with him, along with the priest
whom my parents truly loved. My dad prepared my brother and I for a good life,
good morals, good ethics, and true happiness.
He also took good care of my mother, even after his passing. She was
able to live a high quality life for the rest of her years. All this time later
I still miss him and think of him often.
Finished
the carpet shampooing by doing the upstairs this morning. So nice to have clean
carpet throughout the house. So glad I got the new shampooer…it will be using
much more often than I used the old one.
I did cheat a little in that I didn’t move the heavy furniture this
time, but will next time.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Poor George
Mystery teasers are little stories where you
need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
George
is dead. He was found face down in the street, squashed nearly flat. He must
have been there some time as he was cool to the touch. In addition, when he was
found, there was a bird perched on the back of his head.
Who is George?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How
long is summer break for Congress members?
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…Harper’s Index…
42 –Percentage of unaccompanied minors facing
deportation from the US who are not granted an attorney
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2 jokes for the day
Good
Morning Mr. Smith
Nurse:
Good morning Mr. Smith, you seem to be coughing much more easily this morning.
Mr. Smith: I should be, I’ve been practicing all night.
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Mine
Isn't Stuck
During
training exercises, the Lieutenant was driving down a muddy back road when he
encountered another car stuck in the mud, with a red-faced Colonel at the
wheel.
"Your jeep stuck, sir?" asked the Lieutenant as he pulled alongside.
"Nope," replied the Colonel, coming over and handing him the keys, "Yours
is!"
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
inventor of baseball is also credited with firing the first Union shot of Civil
war.
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The
baseball tradition of spring training came about because in 1885 the Chicago
White Stockings went to Hot Springs in Arkansas to prepare for the new season.
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In
July 1934, Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return of the baseball he
hit for his 700th career home run.
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In
an effort to sell more licensed apparel, minor-league baseball teams were
changing their names so often that the sport's governing body now limits
franchises to team name changes every three years.
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The
first perfect nine innings baseball game was achieved by John Lee Richmond on
June 12, 1880.
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Baseball
ended one of its oldest traditions in 1997 when inter league play begin for the
first time. This means that teams from the American league can play National
league teams during the regular season. The first inter league game was played
on June 12, 1997.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
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[91] Gogi Grant,
[Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg],
singer
(The Wayward Wind),
born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2016)
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[90] Upton Beall Sinclair,
US
writer (Jungle), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1968)
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[89] [Arnold] Red Auerbach,
NBA
coach/GM (Boston Celtic), born in Brooklyn, [d-2006]
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[84] Ernesto Teodoro
Moneta,
Italian
journalist, soldier and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1907), born in Milan,
Lombardy (d. 1918)
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82- Sophia Loren,
actress
(Desire Under the Elms, Black Orchid), born in Rome, Italy
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60- Gary Cole,
Park
Ridge, Illinois, American actor (Pineapple Express, Midnight Caller)
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[35] Mungo Park,
Scottish
explorer (Africa) [d-1806]
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Historical Obits Today
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@96-2005 Simon
Wiesenthal,
Austrian-Polish
Nazi hunter
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@87-2015 Jack Larson,
playwright
and actor (Jimmy Olsen-Superman)
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@78-2015 C. K. [Charles
Kenneth] Williams,
American
poet and translator (Pulitzer prize 2000), myeloma
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@78-1863 Jakob Grimm,
writer
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@74-1973 Glenn Strange,
actor
(Sam the Bartender-Gunsmoke), cancer
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@30-1973 Jim Croce,
vocalist
(Time in a Bottle),
plane crash
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Brain Teasers Answers
The
George in question is George Washington, specifically the picture of Washington
on the quarter. He was, in fact, dead when he was found. As he is on a coin, he
would be nearly flat, and cool to the touch. Finally, when you turn the quarter
over, on the "back of the head" you will find a perching eagle.
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Trivia Hive
Answers
7
weeks
If
you're an adult, you probably don't get a summer vacation unless you are either
a teacher or a member of Congress. This summer, Congress took a seven-week summer
break and came back to a pile of unfinished work like the Zika virus issue and
annual budgets and they better work fast. Congress is also taking off the month
of October which means just a few more weeks to cram it all in. Source: Fox
News
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Disclaimer: All
opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from
the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I
have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information
is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify.
Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the
dates may not be totally accurate.
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