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Sep 19, 2017 Week: 38 \ Day: 262
86004 Today: H 72° \ L 43°
Average Sky Cover: 2%
Wind ave: 16mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 84°[1956] Record Low: 25°[1971]
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Quote of the Day
Everything that is made beautiful and fair and
lovely is made for the eye of one who sees.
Rumi
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Observances Today
Get Ready Day Link
National IT Professionals Day
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Observances This Week
16-23
Farm Animal Awareness Week
17-23
Build A Better Image Week
Child Passenger Safety Week Link
Constitution Week
International Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week
National Indoor Plant Week
National Rehabilitation Awareness Week:17-23
National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Love Your Files Week Link
National Singles Week
Tolkien Week
18-24
Balance Awareness Week Link
International Week of the Deaf Link
International Women's E-Commerce Days
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link
Pollution Prevention Week Link
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1500’s
★1559 Five Spanish ships sink in storm off Tampa, about 600 die
1700’s
1778 The Continental Congress passes the first budget of the United States.
1796 George Washington's farewell address as president
1800’s
★1888 One of first known modern beauty contests held in Spa, Belgium
1900’s
★1940 Nazi decree forbids gentile woman to work in Jewish homes
1952 "Adventures of Superman" TV series starring George Reeves premieres in syndication in the US
★1957 Dalida is the first artist to be awarded a gold record in France for 300,000 sales of "Bambino".
★1959 Nikita Khrushchev is denied access to Disneyland
1960 Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100
1971 1st NYC Women's Marathon won by Beth Bonner in 2:55:22
★1974 The KGB begin a large-scale operation to discredit Russian novelist Aleksandr Solzhenitsynand cut his communications with Soviet dissidents
★1975 "Fawlty Towers" starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs premieres on BBC2 in the UK
1980 "Ordinary People" directed by Robert Redford and starring Donald Sutherland, Mary Tyler Moore and Judd Hirsch is released (Best Picture 1981)
1988 US Olympic diver Greg Louganis hits his head on diving board
★1993 Parliamentary election in Poland
★1995 The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto
2000’s
★2016 Aid convoy into Urum al-Kubra, Syria attacked by air strikes, UN denounces as a war crime
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My Rambling Thoughts
Seldom has Monday every been one of my favorite days…unless it was a Federal Holiday.
I played phone games with my eye doctor, BCBS, and Walgreens. I have always gotten a 10ml bottle of drops. The last time I filled, it was 5ml. Tiny bottle, not easy to hold, and even harder to squeeze. A month ago I called Walgreens and they said, ‘that’s what the Dr. ordered’. So now it is time to refill. I called the Dr. and they said, ‘no, it’s your insurance that sets the size’. Called BCBS and they said no, it’s the pharmacy. Called the Pharmacy and dealt with the call center. They pulled up the script, and couldn’t figure out why I got on 5ml. She said she would renew at 10ml bottle and said it would be ready tomorrow after 11a. About 10a I get the text that it is ready. I finish my shopping and stop by Walgreens. They filled it with 2-5ml bottles. The dummy at the counter said ‘they don’t make it anymore.’ I said ‘check it.’ She did and said the 10ml would be ready tomorrow after 2p. I get home and get a text that my script is ready. I call, as I’m no dummy. Nope, the lady was correcting the script and the system sent me the text. Called the call center and told some guy how upset I was. He transferred me ‘customer relations’. Some lady in Atlanta listened to my long story and said she was sorry for the inconvenience and said she would ‘scale it up’ and someone would call me. Crazy day.
So glad the Cards pulled it off, then Denver won. Not happy with the ‘weather delay’ but a win is a win. Glad I wasn’t sitting in the stands.
Focus is off on another great adventure. They will be adventuring until Oct. 2. The trip includes Italy, Slovenia & Croatia, Venice, Lake Bled, Istria, Plitvice National Park, Hvar & Dubrovnik. Pictures from fellow travelers are already hitting the FB page.
Sunday I got a paper from my delivery guy. It was the AZ Republic, not the AZ Daily Sun. Called. Ended up getting the Flag paper about 3p. Guess the delivery guy is delivering several papers from different publishers. The Republic is a decent conservative paper but has little news about Flagstaff. No thanks. Interestingly, the Phx paper had an ad for Coke: 3/$10. The same store had Coke: 4/$10 in the Flag paper. Hmmm.
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Bizarre News
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A teen who was accused of smacking women's behinds in a public park, told police that he knew it was wrong, but he could not help himself, according to police in Delaware. New Castle County Police said that they have arrested 19-year-old Tomiere Harris, in connection with multiple unlawful sexual contact incidents, which occurred in Glasgow Park. Over the course of several months, New Castle County Police investigated the report of a 43-year-old woman being inappropriately touched as she was walking in the park. The woman reported that the man smacked her behind. In another incident, a woman was using a portable bathroom in the park when Harris opened the door and exposed himself to her. During police questioning, Harris admitted that what he did was wrong, but claimed that he could not help himself after seeing the women's backsides. Harris was charged with four counts of third-degree unlawful sexual contact, sexual harassment, and second-degree indecent exposure.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
80’s
@88- Ferry Porsche,
Austrian automobile pioneer (Porsche AG), born in Wiener Neustadt, Austria-Hungary
(d. 1998)
@88- Adam West,
American actor (Batman, Last Precinct) born in Walla Walla, Washington
(d. 2017)
84- David McCallum,
actor (Ilyla Kuryakin-Man From UNCLE, NCIS), born in Glasgow, Scotland
@81- William Golding,
English novelist (Lord of the Flies-Nobel 1983), born in Newquay, Cornwall
(d. 1993)
70’s
@78- Emil Zatopek,
Czechoslavakia, 5K/10K/marathon (Olympic-gold-1952)
(d. 2000)
77- Paul Williams,
singer/composer/actor (Planet of the Apes), born in Omaha
76- Jim Fox,
England, pentathlete (Olympics-1972)
60’s
69- Jeremy Irons,
actor (Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King), born in Isle of Wight, England
68- Twiggy Lawson, [Leslie Hornby],
England, model/actress (Boyfriend, W)
50’s
51- Soledad O'Brien,
American journalist
40’s
48- Jimmy Fallon,
American actor and comedian, born in NYC
30’s
@32- "Mama" Cass Elliot,
rock vocalist (Mamas & The Papas), born in Baltimore
(d. 1974)
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-Historical Obits Today
0’s
@88-1995 Orville Redenbacher,
American popcorn magnate (Orville Redenbacher's Gourmet Popcorn),
drowns in bathtub
@77-2015 Jackie Collins,
British-American author (The Stud, Lucky),
cancer
@72-2004 Skeeter Davis,
American singer,
breast cancer
@49-1881 James A. Garfield,
20th US President (Republican: 1881),
gunshot wound
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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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