Sep 18


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Sept  18, 2018 Week: 38 \ Day: 261
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: 25% 
Wind:   9mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 86°[1956]   Record Low: 27°[2006]
Sep Averages: 74°\42°

Today’s Quote

     Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
     Sophocles

Harper’s Index

1:33
Estimated ration of us money spent on LEGAL sports gambling to that spent on ILLEGAL sports betting


Observances This Week

15-22  Farm Animal Awareness Week
Balance Awareness Week Link   
Build A Better Image 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
National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Love Your Files Week Link  
http://www.p2.org/p2-week/National Singles Week
Tolkien Week

17-23  Constitution Week
National Postdoc Appreciation Week Link
Pollution Prevention Week Link
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week  

Observances for Today

Air Force Birthday
Chiropractic Founders Day 
Link
Get Ready Day 
Link 
Hug A Greeting Card Writer Day
International Day Against DRM 
 Link
National Ceiling Fan Day 
Link
National Cheeseburger Day Link  Link
National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day Link
National IT Professionals Day 
National Respect Day 
Link
Rice Krispie Treat Day
World Goat Day  Link
World Water Monitoring Day Link Link
Yom Kippur - begins at sundown


Today’s Significant US Historical Events
Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
1700’s                                         
1755 Fort Ticonderoga in New York opens

1800’s                                         
1812 Great Fire of Moscow burns out after 5 days, 75% of the city destroyed and 12,000 killed

1846 Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning exchange last letters before eloping

1851 New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)

1891 Harriet Maxwell Converse is 1st white woman to become an Indigenous chief (Senaca)

1895 Daniel David Palmer of Davenport, Iowa gives the first chiropractic adjustment

1900’s                                         
1919 Hurricane tides 16 feet above normal drown 280 along Gulf Coast

1944 British submarine Tradewind torpedoes Junyo Maru: 5,600 killed, including 1,377 allied POWs and 4,200 Javanese slave labourers.

1947 US Department of Defense 1st day of operation

1947 US Air Force created as a separate military service by passing of the National Security Act

1948 Ralph Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine

1957 "Wagon Train" premieres

1958 The Fresno Drop: Bank of America mails out 60,000 BankAmericards in Fresco, California, the first credit card (later renamed VISA)

1982 Sabra and Shatila massacres - Christian militia massacre at least 700 Palestinians in retaliation for assassination of Bachir Gemayel

1997 Ted Turner gives $1 billion to the United Nations, creating the public charity, the United Nations Foundation

1997 Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) in a referendum on Welsh autonomy.

2000’s
2012 The Chicago Teachers Union and Chicago Public Schools reach a deal that ends an 8-day strike.

2014 Scotland votes to stay a member of the United Kingdom in an independence referendum

2016 Earliest known fishhooks at 23,000 years old discovered on Okinawa Island, Japan, findings published in PNAS journal

2017 Hurricane Maria passes over the Caribbean island of Dominica as a category 5 hurricane, destroying 90% of structures and killing 27


My Rambling Thoughts
The smoke is still ruining our beautiful city. It seems to just come in and sit. Seems with all the technology, there should be a way, short of a very big fan, to get rid of the smoke. This is the second full day of our town looking like we are in the middle of a partial eclipse.

Last night I did a load of towels in my 20+ year old washer. Suddenly it stopped agitating and spinning. After taking the towels out of the washer and hand wringing them I called Sears Repair. They said they could have someone to my house between 8a and noon on Monday. I was shocked. First because our local Sears is closing. Second, how fast they would show up. About 7:45 I was sitting in my office and the truck pulled up. The guy waited until 8a exactly to come to my door. Turns out he was a former student. He checked and said he could fix it. In less than 45 minutes the washer was up and running. Turns out the repair service is not connected to the retail side of Sears, so they will be around for quite some time. The part was $30, the labor cost brought it up to $200. I ain’t complaining. It is a great washer and he said it is a common break down for an ‘older’ washer. He also said that it is better than the newer ones. Sears also will fix all appliances, even it not bought at Sears. Cool and good to know. Need any appliance repair…check with Sears!!

I have never been a coffee drinker. Partly because I’m not a ‘hot’ drinker, and I prefer my liquid intake to be cold. I discovered Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Latte is sold in 40oz containers for around $4 at local grocery stores. I’m on my second bottle since Saturday. Loving it. And a whole lot cheaper than buying it at a Starbucks.

What a mess in DC. Too bad these allegations didn’t come up sooner. If true, a drunken party at a private high school with underage drinkers is no surprise. An assault or rape at such a party, while horrific, is also no surprise. This will be an interesting week in DC.


Birthdays Today
@-  indicates age at death

80’s
85Robert Blake, Nutley NJ, (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast)

70’s
@75Samuel Johnson, English scholar and lexicographer (A Dictionary of the English Language), born in Lichfield Staffordshire (d. 1784)

60’s
67Ben Carson, American neurosurgeon, Republican politician and US Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, born in Detroit, Michigan

40’s
48Alisa Tyler, TV actress, game show host

47Lance Armstrong, disgraced Cyclist

45James Marsden, movie actor (X-Men)

42Ronaldo Lopes Da Cruz, Brazilian soccer player

30’s
@39J. D. Tippit, American police officer murdered by Lee Harvey Oswald shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, born in Texas (d. 1963)


Historical Obits Today

70’s
@761783 Leonhard Euler, Swiss mathematician (Euler's Constant), brain hemorrhage

@702013 Ken Norton, American heavyweight boxer, strokes

50’s
@561961 Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish public servant, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations (1953-61) and posthumous Nobel Peace Prize winner (1961), air crash over Congo

20’s
@271970 Jimi Hendrix, American rock guitarist (Purple Haze), asphyxiation


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