Wednesday 10/4/23
Celebrate:
Balloons Around the World Day
Cinnamon Roll Day
eDay
Improve Your Office Day
International Toot Your Flute Day
International Walk to School Day
National Golf Day
National Kale Day
National Pumpkin Seed Day
National Ships-in-Bottles Day
National Taco Day
National Vodka Day
Ramdon Acts of Poetry Day
Ten-Four Day
World Animal Day
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Hope you had a great growing season this summer! If you find that you had a surplus seeds, please share them with the Steele Memorial Library! Just bag them up and mark what type they are and their name, such as "beans, Kentucky"; we will get them ready for borrowing in the spring.
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History was made today!!!
Speaker Kevin McCarthy was voted out of the job Tuesday in an extraordinary showdown — a first in U.S. history, forced by a contingent of hard-right conservatives and throwing the House and its Republican leadership into chaos.
It’s the end of the political line for McCarthy, who has said repeatedly that he never gives up, but found himself with almost no options remaining. Neither the right-flank Republicans who engineered his ouster nor the Democrats who piled on seem open to negotiating.
McCarthy told lawmakers in the evening he would not run again for speaker, putting the gavel up for grabs. Next steps are highly uncertain as there is no obvious successor to lead the House Republican majority. Action is halted in the House until next week, when Republicans try to elect a new speaker.
So wait a minute...this chaos happens today and they send everyone home for a week??? It's less than 45 days till we face another Government shutdown. Wow...way to do your jobs and figure out the real things that you need to be working on. Disgusted with our Government at this moment.
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104-year-old Dorothy Hoffner of Chicago becoming the oldest-ever person to complete a skydive on Sunday. Skydive Chicago is hoping to certify the jump with Guinness World Records, which most recently certified the 2022 jump of a 103-year-old Swedish woman.
Hoffner, who turns 105 in December, said she might ride in a hot-air balloon next.
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Jamie-Lynn Sigler, maybe best known for playing Meadow on the sopranos, has lived with multiple sclerosis for two decades, has published an online guide, Reframing MS, to help others with MS build a support system.
Years of keeping her own diagnosis secret took its toll both emotionally and physically. "You cannot do this alone," she said. "Trust me. I've tried."
Read an interview and find the link to here digital resource here.
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Like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé will also bring a hugely popular concert tour to movie theaters this year. AMC has announced that the superstar’s record-breaking “Renaissance” world tour is getting its own concert film that will be released in theaters on Dec. 1, and tickets are on sale now.
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After customer complaints and a report in the Wall Street Journal, Apple acknowledged the iPhone 15 can get so hot it's uncomfortable to hold the phone. Apple said it will fix a software bug partially at fault and also blamed third-party apps, including Instagram and Uber, for overloading the $800-and-up smartphone, which went on sale last week.
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Post Malone has an interesting hobby: He forges swords. He says, quote, "There's nothing better than a cold beer, some good music, and just a hot-ass piece of metal and you're [effing] whaling on it. It's like the most manly thing you could do.
"I'm taking something thousands of degrees, banging on it with a hammer, and making it something to stab with. It'd only get cooler if you could do it on horseback."
For his NEXT hobby, Post wants, quote, "a beautiful ranch.."
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"Variety" made a list of the 21 best Halloween movies ever. Here they are, ranked:
1. "Halloween" (1978)
2. "Hocus Pocus" (1993)
3. "Trick 'r Treat" (2007)
4. "The Nightmare Before Christmas" (1993)
5. "Halloween 3: Season of the Witch" (1982)
6. "Pumpkinhead" (1988)
7. "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" (1982)
8. "Donnie Darko" (2001)
9. "House of 1000 Corpses" (2003)
10. "The Karate Kid" (1984) (There's a Halloween dance in the movie.) (I guess if Die Hard is a Christmas movie because it takes place near Christmas, than this.)
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Today's Useless Fact of the Day - The time when the largest percentage of the world is sleeping is 5:00 P.M. Eastern. Approximately 75% of people in the world are sleeping at that hour . . . even though very few of them are in the U.S.
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