Sep 10

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Sept 10, 2018 Week: 37\ Day: 253

86004 Today: H 81° \ L 49° \ Average Sky Cover: % 

Nearest Lightning:  179 miles away

Wind ave.:   13mph\Gusts:  0mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 87°[1990]   Record Low: 28°[1912]

Aug Averages: 80°\49°

Today’s Quote

    Obstacles are things a person sees when

    He takes his eyes off his goal

     E. Joseph Cossman

Harper’s Index

  $5

  ‘Treaty payment’ in Canadian dollars, that the

  government annually offers First Nations individuals

Observances This Week

6-10    National Environmental Services Week Link

Popcorn Days   Link

8-10    Mushroom Days

9-15    International Air Ambulance Week  Link

Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week

Direct Support Professional Recognition Week  Link

International Housekeepers Week   Link

National Assisted Living Week   

Suicide Prevention Week 

National Truck Driver Appreciation Week  Link

Line Dance Week

Observances for Today

National Boss/Employee Exchange Day
Swap Ideas Day

Sewing Machine Day

(World) Suicide Prevention Day  Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1776 George Washington asks for a spy volunteer, Nathan Hale volunteers

1800’s                                         

1823 Simón Bolívar named President of Peru

1846 Elias Howe takes out a US patent for a lockstich sewing machine

1869 Baptist minister supposedly invents rickshaw in Yokohama, Japan

1900’s                                         

1913 Lincoln Highway opens as 1st paved coast-to-coast highway

1924 Leopold and Loeb found guilty of the murder of Robert Franks in Chicago in the "the crime of the century"

1940 Buckingham Palace hit by German bomb

1945 Mike the Headless Chicken is decapitated in Fruita, Colorado; he survives for another 18 months before choking to death.

1953 Swanson sells its 1st "TV dinner"

1964 Palestinian Liberation Army (PLA) forms

1969 US performs nuclear test at Grand Valley Colorado

1985 U.S. 7th Circuit Court rules Soviet defector Walter Polovchak can't be forcibly returned to parents' country if it's deemed "not in the best interests" of underage defectors

2000’s                                         

2002 Switzerland, traditionally a neutral country, joins the United Nations

2008 The Large Hadron Collider at CERN, described as the biggest scientific experiment in the history of mankind is powered up in Geneva, Switzerland

2012 Teachers in Chicago strike effecting 350,000 students

2015 Floods and landslides in North East Japan, centered on Joso force 90,000 to evacuate their homes

2015 New human-like species - Homo Naledi announced by Scientists and a team of female archaeologists, found deep in caves in South Africa

My Rambling Thoughts

Quiet day, Sunday news show were good. Life is better.

This morning about 11a my doorbell rang. There was a lady at the door, holding some flyers, a clipboard, and a pen. She introduced herself and said she was from the church, about 2 blocks away. She said her church had put together information on each city council candidate and each ballot measure. All I could think of was ‘I thought there was a separation of church and state’. I didn’t take her flyer and she left. I was so shocked that a church would send out parishioners on an election campaign. If this continues I may get involved in the movement to have churches pay taxes. I am fine with parishioners having their own beliefs, and with them supporting a candidate or ballot issue. I am not OK with using the church name, copy machine, and paper to spread their word.

Colorado Buffs game…amazing. Just happened to be on my TV live yesterday. What a game.

Cardinals must be thinking it is a warm up practice. They look bad today. Can’t get the Broncos on my TV, but the internet machine says they are ahead at the half.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87►Arnold Palmer, golfer (d. 2016)

86►Karl Lagerfeld, German fashion designer (Chanel), born in Hamburg, Germany

@83►Elsa Schiaparelli, Italian fashion designer, born in Rome, Italy (d. 1973)

60’s

69►Bill O’Reilly, Fox news

@60►Stephen Jay Gould, American paleontologist and popular science writer, born in NYC, New York (d. 2002) cancer

50’s

58►Colin Firth, movie actor

40’s

44►Ryan Phillippe, actor

@42►James E Keeler, US astronomer (rings of Saturn) (d. 1900)

Historical Obits Today

0’s

@91►1985 Ernest Julius Öpik, Estonian astronomer and astrophysicist known for his studies of meteors and the structure and evolution of the cosmos