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Sep 23, 2017 Week: 38 \ Day: 266
86004 Today: H 64° \ L 36°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 14mph\Gusts: 25mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 86°[1944] Record Low: 25°[1970]
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Quote of the Day
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Observances Today
Celebrate Bi-sexuality Day
Fish Amnesty Day
Innergize Day (Day after the Autumn Equinox)
International Lace Day Link
International Rabbit Day:23 Link
Kids Day (Kiwanis Clubs) Link
National Hunting and Fishing Day
National Museum Day Link
National Public Lands Day
National Seat Check Saturday Link
National Singles Day Link
National Snack Stick Day Link
R.E.A.D. in America Day
Restless Legs Awareness Day
Teal Talk Day Link
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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
1600’s
1642 Harvard College in Cambridge, Mass, 1st commencement
1700’s
★1780 British Major John Andre reveals Benedict Arnold's plot to betray West Point
1800’s
1806 Lewis & Clark return to St Louis from Pacific Northwest
★1821 Fall of Tripolitsa, Greek forces massacre 30,000 Turks during Greek War of Independence
★1846 Johann Gottfried Galle & Heinrich d'Arrest find Neptune
1862 Lincoln's Emancipation is published in Northern Newspapers
★1879 Richard Rhodes invented a hearing aid called the Audiophone
1900’s
★1908 University of Alberta opens
1927 "Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans", directed by F. W. Murnau, starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, is released (Academy Awards Unique and Artistic Picture 1927)
1938 Time capsule, to be opened in 6939, buried at World's Fair in NYC (capsule contained a woman's hat, man's pipe & 1,100' of microfilm)
★1950 Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph Bunche for mediation in Israel - 1st African American winner
1952 Richard Nixon makes his "Checker's" speech
1957 White mob forces 9 black students who had entered a Little Rock high school in Arkansas to withdraw
1962 ABC's 1st color TV series - The Jetsons by Hanna-Barbera first broadcast
1962 NY's Philharmonic Hall (since renamed Avery Fisher Hall) opens as 1st unit of Lincoln Center for Performing Arts
1964 "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel premieres in NYC
1969 "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" directed by George Roy Hill and starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford premieres
★1978 100,000 cheering Egyptians welcome Anwar Sadat home from Camp David peace summit
1986 Congress selects the rose as US national flower
1990 PBS begins an 11 hour miniseries on Civil War
2000’s .
2003 Crime drama "NCIS" starring Mark Harmon, Michael Weatherley, Pauley Perrette and David McCallum premieres on CBS in the US
2012 Scientists discover four genetically distinct types of breast cancer
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My Rambling Thoughts
I had my annual Medicare required PCP appointment today. Good Lord. Lots of questions. Are you depressed? Do you ever feel like death is a good answer? Do you have daily social contact with others? Do people mention that you are speaking more slowly than you used to? How’s your appetite? Do you forget things on a regular basis? Have you fallen in the last two weeks? And on and on and on. The questionnaire made me grateful, but also made me very uneasy about getting old. And I have to do it every year. I did get some good news about my CPAC machine. I go in next week for the ‘initial’ how, why, etc. stuff and to find out why Noridian sent me a letter that Medicare would no longer cover my machine. Since I don’t even know who/what Noridian is. Turns out my PCP dropped several balls regarding the damn machine, but his partner-in-crime says she can fix it next Friday. Should have taken the letter today but left it on the counter…hmmm…maybe my memory is failing me…Nope, just rushed out at 7:30 to make an 8:00 appointment. Remembered I had forgotten it while waiting for a break in traffic to turn on the main drag.
When I got home I sent a long email to both my Senators about this whole healthcare mess. I reminded them they were elected to represent every AZ citizen, not the left, right, fringe, Dems, Reps, but ALL the people. That the poor and elderly are part of the formula. And that I am part of the elderly who VOTE, and have voted in every local, state, and national election since I turned 21. I also mentioned that as they cast their vote on this latest bill, that it had better be better for the entire AZ population and not just a political answer. Both Senators are Republicans. About an hour after my well-written expose reached the Senators, John McCain came out against it. Guess he read my email. Haha.
First day of Fall is certainly a fall day. Cooler, cooler breeze, starting to look like snow is in our fairly near future. Guess I’m ready. Furnace filter replaced, furnace turned on, long sleeves and sweaters are ready to wear, long pants are out and shorts are put away. Still wearing my TEVAs until the snow covers the ground.
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Bizarre News
A couple was arrested for having sex in public places and recording the acts.
The two are facing obscenity charges after they were busted for having sex in a Louisiana public library, and then uploading the videos to their Pornhub page, according to police.
Police said they received a report of the two, recording themselves performing sex acts on each other inside the library. The videos were then uploaded them to the porn site. As a result, police arrested 35-year-old Rex Jernigan and his wife Elizabeth, 33.
Police also learned the couple recorded themselves in various other businesses throughout the City of Houma and Terrebonne Parish, including a Walmart and Burger King. They then uploaded the videos to Pornhub.
The Jernigans were charged with six counts of obscenity. After they were released on bail, the couple addressed their 4,180 subscribers and friends.
"To all my friends and followers. My wife and I bailed out of jail for our public videos we posted on Pornhub. Hopefully, we'll get to post a new video soon."
In the "About Us" section on Pornhub, the couple wrote in part: "the more attention we receive, the more we'll post."
A GoFundMe account was created for the couple. The GoFundMe page is named: sexybeast82 & laylaDevin. The account reads: "Please help this couple in their time of need! Every nickel helps!"
So far, the account has raised $10.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@93- Mickey Rooney,
movie actor
80’s
@85- Walter Lippmann,
American journalist/political writer (Public Opinion), born in NYC, New York
(d. 1974)
70’s
@74- Euripides,
Greek playwright (Medea), born in Salamis, Greece
(d. 406 BC)
74- Julio Iglesias,
Spain, singer (Of All the Girls I Loved Before)
@78- Kublai Khan,
Mongol Emperor (1260-94) and founder of the Yuan dynasty in China (1271-94), born in Monoglia
(d. 1294)
@73- Ray Charles [Robinson],
American singer and pianist (Georgia), (Georgia on My Mind, Mess Around), born in Albany, Georgia
(d. 2004)
60’s
@69- Mary Mallon,
Irish-American patient ('Typhoid Mary') 1st person in the US known to be immune to typhoid, and carrier of the disease (infected at least 51 people in New York City), born in Cookstown, Ireland
(d. 1938)
68- Bruce Springsteen, [Boss],
Asbury NJ, rock musician (Born in the USA)
50’s
58- Jason Alexander, [Greenspan],
actor (George-Seinfeld), born in Newark, New Jersey
40’s
46- Sean Spicer,
American political strategist, White House Press Secretary (2017), born in Barrington, Rhode Island
@40- John Coltrane,
jazz saxophonist and composer (Blue Train), born in Hamlet, North Carolina
(d. 1967)
@40- Augustus Caesar [Gaius Octavius],
First Roman Emperor (27BC-14AD), born in Rome
(d. 14)
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@83-1939 Sigmund Freud,
Austrian neurologist and creator of psychoanalysis
@82-1981 Chief Dan George,
Tsleil-Waututh Nation (Canada), actor (Harry & Tonto, Little Big Man)
60’s
@68-1974 Cliff Arquette,
American comedian (Charlie Weaver),
stroke
@68-1902 John Wesley Powell,
US geologist (Grand Canyon)
@66-1877 Urbain JJ Leverrier,
co-discoverer of Neptune
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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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