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Sometimes that ugly old painting in grandma’s house is actually valuable. A woman in Compiegne, France was found to have a long-lost painting by pre-Renaissance painter Cimabue (aka Cenni di Pepo) hanging in her kitchen. An expert who examined the painting says it seems to be a panel from a polyptych, a work of several painted scenes divided into multiple panels. He says it matches with other known Cimabue paintings from the same work. The 10-inch painting, titled Mocking of Christ, is expected to fetch up to $6.5 million at auction.

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When you have little kids, bedtime can be a constant battle. Whether they want a snack, another story or have to use the bathroom, kids always seem to have a handy excuse to delay going to sleep. If bedtime is a constant battle in your house, help could be on the way courtesy of your kids’ favorite Disney pals.

Until September 30, kids can call 1-877-7-MICKEY and hear a special goodnight message from Mickey Mouse, Woody, Jasmine, Anna and Elsa, Yoda or Spider-Man. These special goodnight phone calls will have your kiddos actually looking forward to bedtime!

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ENTERTAINMENT

• “Judy” (PG-13, Drama):  In the winter of 1968, legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London for a series of sold-out concerts. (Renée Zellweger, Finn Wittrock)
• “Abominable” (PG, Animation/Comedy):  When a teenager encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends name him “Everest”

(Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai)

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Last night on “The Tonight Show”, Jimmy asked Colin Jost about his engagement to Scarlett Johansson and Michael Che joked that if Colin plans the bachelor party it will be in the daytime and Scarlett will be there.

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TODAY IS……………….

• “Chocolate Milk Day”, something unheard of until the Van Houten company in Amsterdam, Holland invented a cocoa pressing method in 1828. In 2006, a study determined that chocolate milk is a better post-workout recovery drink than white milk, water, or most sports drinks.

• “Crush a Can Day”, a day to remind everyone to do their part in recycling. Here are some facts about cans:
  ⇒ If you laid all the aluminum cans recycled in 2010 end to end, they would circle the earth 169 times.
  ⇒ In the U.S., 105,800 cans are recycled every minute.
  ⇒The industry pays more than $1 billion annually for recycled cans.

• “World Tourism Day”, as declared by the UN’s World Tourism Organization. The 2018 theme is ‘Tourism and the Digital Transformation’.

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COUNTRY MUSIC NOTE

Diamond Rio‘s “How Your Love Makes Me Feel” went to Number One in 1997.

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RANDOM REPORT

1.  The average potato makes 36 chips.

2. U.S. coins from 1931 to 1933 are extremely rare, because in the Great Depression, no one needed them . . . so the U.S. Mint stopped producing almost all of them.

3. The crowd at a Louisiana State University football game once cheered so loudly that it registered as an earthquake on a local seismograph.
4. Sweden is the only country that’s ever had a February 30th.  It happened in 1712, when they were transitioning from the old Julian calendar system to the modern Gregorian calendar.

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GOOD NEWS

There’s a 10-year-old girl in Kentucky named Ryan Neighbors who has spina bifida.  So she’s been in a wheelchair her whole life.

And her school recently planned a field trip to a state park that she knew she wouldn’t be able to go on.  It required a lot of hiking.  And she’d had to skip similar trips before.

So her mom was planning an alternate field trip for her.  But one of the teachers at Ryan’s school reached out.

Jim Freeman teaches in the classroom next to Ryan’s, and she’s not even his student.  But he volunteered to CARRY HER all day, just so she wouldn’t miss out.

Ryan’s mom has a special backpack she can ride in.  So Jim strapped it on and hiked all day with a 10-year-old kid on his back.

He downplayed it and said he was happy to help . . . and that it’s just one small example of how teachers work harder than most people realize.

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BIRTHDAYS

Gwyneth Paltrow is 47

WILFORD BRIMLEY! is 85.  Quaker Oats pitchman, sworn enemy of the dreaded diabeetus . . . and the nasty head of security in “The Firm”.

(Wilford is a LEGIT cowboy.  Back in the day, he was a rodeo rider, a blacksmith, a bodyguard for Howard Hughes, and a stuntman, before becoming an actor.)

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Hand Sanitizer Will Fight the Flu . . . If You Rub Your Hands for Four Minutes

Good news and bad news here.  The good news:  As flu season approaches, a study found hand sanitizer WILL help you protect yourself.

The bad news:  You’ll basically have to make applying hand sanitizer your part time job.

The study found that when you apply hand sanitizer, you have to rub your hands together for FOUR MINUTES to get it to completely kill all the flu germs.

Fortunately, there IS a better solution.  The study found that if you wash your hands with antibacterial soap, it kills all the flu germs in just 30 seconds.

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UP TO 20 PERCENT OF PEOPLE HAVE IMPOSTOR SYNDROME

Do you often feel like you’re faking it? Brigham Young University researchers found 20 percent of people suffer with impostor syndrome in the workplace, and yet, most still perform well at work. The scientists say the best way to deal with these feelings is to reach out to friends and family (and not people you work with.)

Researcher Jeff Bednar explains, “After reaching outside their social group for support, [people] are able to understand themselves more holistically rather than being so focused on what they felt they lacked in just one area.” He also adds, “The root of impostorism is thinking that people don’t see you as you really are. We think people like us for something that isn’t real and that they won’t like us if they find out who we really are.”

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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27^TH                                             

TODAY’S BIRTHDAYS

Gwyneth Paltrow is 47

WILFORD BRIMLEY! is 85.  Quaker Oats pitchman, sworn enemy of the dreaded diabeetus . . . and the nasty head of security in “The Firm”.

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1. MLB

Minnesota          10           Detroit                  4

Toronto had the night off…..

A great back and forth game last night on “Thursday Night Football”.  The Green Bay Packers were behind by a touchdown with less than a minute left.  They only had three yards to go when Aaron Rodgers’ pass popped up in the air after receivers collided at the goal line.  The Eagles’ Nigel Bradham caught it and ran it out of the end zone to seal the 34 to 27 win for Philadelphia.  Here’s the call.

2. • “American Housewife” (ABC): Season 4 premiere
   • “Fresh Off the Boat” (ABC): Season 6 premiere
   • “Hawaii Five-0” (CBS) Season 10 premiere
   • “Dateline NBC” (NBC): Season 30 premiere

• “Judy” (PG-13, Drama):  In the winter of 1968, legendary performer Judy Garland arrives in London for a series of sold-out concerts. (Renée Zellweger, Finn Wittrock)
• “Abominable” (PG, Animation/Comedy):  When a teenager encounters a young Yeti on the roof of her apartment building in Shanghai, she and her mischievous friends name him “Everest”

(Chloe Bennet, Albert Tsai)

3. Environment Canada has issued winter storm watches for parts of southern Alberta and frost advisories in the north as icy weather moves in on the province.

A hard, killing frost is likely this weekend with temperatures dropping near or below minus five Saturday and Sunday morning.

In the south, a winter storm watch is in effect for Southwestern Alberta and the forecast suggests that between 15 to 30 centimetres of snow accumulation could be possible by Monday.

Higher terrain in the southwest corner could see snowfall totals of more than 50 centimetres.

4. Steven Wright compares the sayings “practice makes perfect” and “nobody’s perfect” . . . and says if that’s true, he’s done practicing.

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JON PARDI RELEASES ALBUM THAT’LL MAKE YOU ‘FEEL BETTER”

Jon Pardi‘s new studio album Heartache Medication is at music retailers everywhere today (Friday, September 27th). Jon says that the album’s title is indicative of pretty much all the songs on the project. [“I liked ‘Heartache Medication’ cause it was kind of a theme on every song. I mean, it was something that made you feel better and you listen to Heartache Medication and you’re gonna feel better, and it’s fun, so I thought that had a cool kind of idea for the album title, and, of course, ‘Heartache Medication’ is super upbeat and it’s fun and you can dance to it and it’s been real fun to sing and get feedback from.”]

Jon celebrates his album release with a show at New York’s Hammerstein Ballroom tonight, and it will be live streamed on Amazon Music’s Facebook live beginning at 8:45 p.m. ET.

MIDLAND ‘MR. LONELY’ LINE DANCE WAS UNEXPECTED STAR OF VIDEO

Midland’s latest single, “Mr. Lonely,” has its very own line dance, but that was not by design, according to Cameron Duddy and Mark Wystrach.  The dance was only intended to be a small part of the trio’s music video, but a label exec had a different idea. They tell us: [“So that was dreamed up in the process of the video, but it was only supposed to be featured for a quick minute and it was going to be thrown together on set. We were just gonna show four dancers boot-scootin-boogien, like just do that. It was supposed to be an aside, and Sandi at our label, Scott’s wife, was like, ‘No, we gotta go hard into this,’ cause she’s a dancer. So, she hired this crazy guy who went way deep in it and you could do a documentary on just that part of the music video because it was its own thing.  We could figure it out. (Mark) We could learn it, we could learn it. We’re actually all good dancers. We all like to go two-steppin’ and we can all dance. If you get enough tequila in us, we can pretty much do damn anything.”]

It’s the lead single from their sophomore album, Let It Roll, that was released last month.

Here’s How Cody Johnson Is Bringing Back ’90s Music

Some country stars write all of their songs, some don’t write any . . . but most seem to combine the two.  And when they’re looking for outside stuff to record, they listen to what’s coming in from the hottest new songwriters.

And that’s why this story is really interesting.  CODY JOHNSON wants his next album to have a ’90s feel to it, but he’s not just saying that.  He’s digging up songs written before 2000 that may have “slipped through the cracks.”

His team threw a party and invited successful, old school songwriters.  We’re talking people who wrote or co-wrote songs like CHATTAHOOCHEE, STRANGER IN MY HOUSE and LOVE WITHOUT END, AMEN.

A Music City insider said, quote, “I’ve never had that request before.  That’s what made it so intriguing . . . that they don’t want any of the modern stuff.”

A rep said Cody’s drawn to “classic songwriting without the current terminology or phrasing.”  So instead of hearing another take on “Cruise” or “Body Like a Back Road” . . . Cody’s new album will be fresh, by being old.  And classic.

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This post was written by Dave Palmer