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LIFESTYLE
A Mexican resort wants to pay someone to be on vacation and try out all their resorts, with a six-figure salary on top of it, for an entire year.
Vidanta, which has multiple resorts in Mexico is hiring for the “World’s Best Job”
The lucky candidate will be an on-location social influencer, expected to dine in their gourmet restaurants, have treatments at their high-end spas, go golfing on their sprawling courses, head out on excursions like the Mayan ruins and try out new restaurants and nightclubs, among any other of the resort’s activities.
The salary for the year-long job is $120,000, plus the resort will pay travel expenses and dining credit at each of the resorts. The resort says no experience is required, but the candidate should have previous sales or hospitality experience and be willing to relocate to Mexico for the year.
To apply, candidates are asked to head to worldsbestjob.com to apply and send in a video.
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The American Academy of Pediatrics just made a major update to their car seat policy. Before, they said kids should be in rear-facing seats until they’re two . . . now, they say keep them facing backwards until they’re 40 pounds, regardless of their age.
If you keep your kid rear facing, you lower their risk of a serious injury in an accident by 70%. So, basically, keep them that way as long as possible.
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ENTERTAINMENT
BURT REYNOLDS passed away after suffering a heart attack yesterday. He was 82. Obviously, he was HUGE back in the ’70s, but he remained relevant for most of his life. He was supposed to be in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Charles Manson movie, but he hadn’t filmed his scenes yet.
His breakout movie role was “Deliverance”, and Burt loved doing his own stunts, including a famous one where he went over a 70-foot waterfall in a canoe for “Deliverance”. Here’s Burt telling the story to Johnny Carson on “The Tonight Show”.

Movies out this weekend include…..The Jennifer Garner revenge thriller “Peppermint”.

It’s up against “The Nun”, a prequel to the “Conjuring” and “Annabelle” movies.

TODAY IS……………….
• “Google Commemoration Day”, honoring the 1998 founding of Google Inc by Sergey Brin & Lawrence Page in a friend’s garage in Menlo Park CA.

1986 [32] TV’s “Oprah Winfrey Show” debuts (the beginning of a billionaire)

1896, A.H. Whiting won the FIRST CAR RACE held on a track. Forty thousand showed up in Cranston, Rhode Island to see Whiting tear around the course at 24 miles-per-hour.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE
SEPTEMBER 7TH, 1991 Brooks & Dunn hit #1 for the first time with “Brand New Man”

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ENGINEER: YOUR BATHROOM SCALE IS PROBABLY INACCURATE
When it comes to your weight you likely shouldn’t believe your bathroom scale.
An engineering professor says modern scales are very basic machines based on the “spring balance” invented by Richard Salter in the 18th century.

He says, “To put it simply, mechanical scales contain a spring, attached by levers and a pulley to a dial. The heavier you are, the more you compress the spring, which makes the dial go around to show your weight. But scales contain lots of little mechanisms, which can easily get bent and throw the measurement [off.] What’s more, most are mass produced so you can’t guarantee you’re buying a precision machine.”

He says electronic scales work in a similar manner, and have a flexible beam inside that bends a bit when you stand on it– but both types of scales can deteriorate with wear and time.

To keep your scale functioning properly he suggests leaving it somewhere in your home where the temperature is consistent, don’t get it wet, keep it laying on a flat surface, and be sure you weigh yourself at the same time each day to get the most accurate reading. To be absolutely sure of your weight you should be weighed by your doctor.
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TODAY’S GOOD NEWS
An 11-year-old Wisconsin boy was rescued from a storm sewer earlier this week after a firefighter saw his finger sticking out of a manhole cover.

The boy had been playing with his friends in a flooded drainage ditch in Harrison after heavy rains had passed through and he got swept under the water and into a culvert that led to the storm sewer.

Rescuers were trying to predict where the boy might be flowing through the sewer system. But then they were standing above a manhole about 30 feet from the ditch when Deputy Fire Chief Wesley Pompa saw fingers poking through an opening in the cover.

The boy had found an air pocket just below the manhole cover and was hanging onto a ladder leading up to it.

The firefighters pried the cover open and rescued the boy, who was alert and conscious, and took him to the hospital.
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BIRTHDAYS

[68] Julie Kavner, TV voice actress (‘Marge Simpson’ on “The Simpsons” since 1989)

[51] Leslie Jones, actress (“Ghostbusters”, “Trainwreck”)

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There Are Four Numbers That No One Has Worn in Baseball History
Baseball has been around FOREVER, and players have been wearing numbers on their jerseys since the 1920s. But believe it or not, there are FOUR two-digit numbers that have NEVER been worn.

They are: 80, 86, 89, and 92.

Coming into the season, there were SIX unused numbers, but then relief pitcher Adam Cimber took one off the board, when he became the first to ever use #90. Then, relief pitcher Pat Neshek became the first to wear #93.

And now that the list of unique, unused numbers is dwindling, it wouldn’t be surprising if players started snapping them up.

Back when players first started wearing numbers, it wasn’t just a free-for-all. In Babe Ruth’s day, the jersey numbers corresponded to what order they batted in the lineup . . . so Babe was #3, and Lou Gehrig was #4.

Later, they were assigned based on what position a player played. But after a bunch of numbers were retired, that tradition was abandoned. Players have been choosing their own numbers since the ’70s and ’80s.

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RANDOM REPORT
1. The “$1 million” prize on “America’s Got Talent” is actually an annuity that’s paid out over 40 years. But you can take the current cash value when you win . . . which would be around $300,000, or roughly $150,000 after taxes.

2. Stephen Colbert was on “The Daily Show” for two years before Jon Stewart. Colbert joined during the second season, when Craig Kilborn was still the host.

3. Milky Way candy bars aren’t named after the galaxy . . . they’re named after a milkshake flavor that was popular in the 1920s.

4. Play-Doh was originally created to be a wallpaper cleaner.

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7TH

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS
[68] Julie Kavner, TV voice actress (‘Marge Simpson’ on “The Simpsons” since 1989)

[51] Leslie Jones, actress (“Ghostbusters”, “Trainwreck”)

1. BURT REYNOLDS passed away after suffering a heart attack yesterday. He was 82. Obviously, he was HUGE back in the ’70s, but he remained relevant for most of his life. He was supposed to be in Quentin Tarantino’s upcoming Charles Manson movie, but he hadn’t filmed his scenes yet.
His breakout movie role was “Deliverance”, and that led to a series of box office hits including “The Longest Yard”, “Semi-Tough”, “Hooper”, “The Cannonball Run”, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas”, and the “Smokey and the Bandit” movies.
And his movie career rebounded with “Boogie Nights” in 1997, which got him his first and only Oscar nomination. He was up for Best Supporting Actor, but lost to Robin Williams for “Good Will Hunting”. He DID win the Golden Globe though.
Back in the ’70s, Burt turned down a chance to become James Bond, saying, quote, “An American can’t play James Bond. It just can’t be done.”
He later admitted regretting it.
He also turned down playing Han Solo in “Star Wars”, and he almost played Michael Corleone “The Godfather”. He also passed on the Oscar-winning Jack Nicholson role in the 1983 movie “Terms of Endearment”. Burt once said that he chose the parts that would be the most FUN, not the ones that would be the most challenging.

2. Movies out this weekend include…..The Jennifer Garner revenge thriller “Peppermint”.
It’s up against “The Nun”, a prequel to the “Conjuring” and “Annabelle” movies.

3. Oakland A’s pitcher SHAWN KELLEY is day-to-day after he injured himself washing dishes. He says he was washing a very sharp knife and almost cut off the tip of his thumb on his pitching hand.

4. A guy in Virginia put up an electric fence in his front yard, to keep out the kids who waited there every morning for the school bus. He didn’t like how they were being rowdy and leaving trash behind. Luckily no one got shocked, except a neighbor who tried it on purpose.

LUKE BRYAN NEARS TOP OF CHARTS WITH ‘SUMMER LOVE STORY’ – (09/07/2018)
Luke Bryan is poised to enter the top of the country charts with his latest hit, “Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset.” Luke was drawn to the song because he says that just about everyone can relate to it in their life.
Luke is planning a huge street party outside his new downtown Nashville bar, 32 Bridge Food + Drink, on Monday (September 10th), at which he will perform his full setlist.

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE TAKE ON INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY THIS WEEKEND –
Florida Georgia Line will roll into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway this weekend for the inaugural FGL Fest, which will take place on Saturday (September 8th), the day before the Big Machine Vodka 400 at the Brickyard, Powered by Florida Georgia Line, on Sunday (September 9th).

Brian Kelley says that when they were approached about putting together a music festival at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the idea made sense.

FGL kicks off their Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood beginning on December 1st. They will be joined by newcomer Mason Ramsey.
They play their last show of 2018 at Zappos Theater in Vegas on December 8th.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer