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Sep 11, 2017 Week: 37 \ Day: 254
86004 Today: H 73° \ L 45°
Average Sky Cover: 40%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: --mph
Visibility: 10 mi
Sep Averages: 74°\42°
Sep Records: H: 91° (1948) L: 20°(1912)
Record High: 88°[1990] Record Low: 30°[1986]
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Quote of the Day
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea;
but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln
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Observances Today
Libraries Remember Day
Miss America Pageant
National Day of Service and Remembrance Link
Patriot Day Link
Pet Rock Day Link
Remember Freedom Day
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Observances This Week
10-16
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
International Housekeepers Week Link
Line Dance Week
National Assisted Living Week
National Environmental Services Week Link
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International Historical Events
1700’s
1773 Benjamin Franklin writes "There never was a good war or bad peace"
1800’s
★1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds)
1847 1st singing of Stephen Foster's "Susanna" (in Pittsburgh)
★1850 "Swedish Nightingale" Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert
1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre, Mormons dressed as Indians murder 120 colonists in Utah
1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip
★1888 Death of the Argentine politician Domingo Sarmiento, after whom the Latin American Teacher's Day is chosen.
★1893 Shaku Soen is 1st Zen teacher to visit the West (Chicago)
1900’s
★1906 Mahatma Gandhi coins the term "Satyagraha" to characterize the Non-Violence movement in South Africa.
1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)
1940 George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.
★1945 Physician Willem J Kolff performs the first successful kidney dialysis using his artificial kidney machine, the Netherlands
1950 "Beetle Bailey" comic strip debuts
★1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes
1959 Congress passes a bill authorizing food stamps for poor Americans
★1960 17th Olympic games close in Rome Italy
★1961 Foundation of the World Wildlife Fund.
1970 The Ford Pinto is introduced.
★1997 After a nationwide referendum, Scotland votes to establish a devolved parliament, within the United Kingdom.
1998 Independent counsel Kenneth Starr sends a report to the U.S. Congress accusing President Bill Clinton of 11 possible impeachable offenses.
2000’s
2001 Two passenger planes hijacked by terrorists crash into New York's World Trade Towers causing the collapse of both and deaths of 2,752 people
2001 Terrorists hijack a passenger plane and crash it into the Pentagon causing the deaths of 125 people
2001 Attempt by passengers and crew of United Airlines Flight 93 to retake control of their hijacked plane from terrorists causes plane to crash in Pennsylvania field killing all 64 people on board
2015 "The Martian" based on the novel by Andy Weir, directed by Ridley Scott and starring Matt Damonpremieres at the Toronto International Film Festival
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My Rambling Thoughts
Quiet Sunday. My brother and his wife are in Mexico City celebrating their anniversary. Nice.
Our current AG here is suing all 3 universities for not following the AZ Constitution. Like everywhere else, tuition costs have skyrocketed in the last decade, taking higher education away from many. Well, back in 1910, 2 years before AZ became a state, there is a clause written into the AZ Constitution which states that university instruction shall be furnished "as nearly free as possible." Over the past 15 years the regents raised tuition from about $2,600 a year to as much as $12,228 a year for in-state students, the suit said. In addition to tuition, those sneaky required fees have also skyrocketed. At present, every student pays an ‘athletic fee’ and other campus fees, even if you are taking online classes. Haven’t been a fan of our conservative AG, but this is great.
Cards were looking good until the 4thQ. Not unusual.
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Bizarre News
*----- If You're Gonna Play You Gotta Pay -----*
A New Jersey man was ordered to pay thousands of dollars in restitution to an airline over his drunken and disruptive behavior on a flight. James August was ordered to pay Hawaiian Airlines $97,817 after the flight was forced to return to the gate due to his bad behavior. He was also sentenced to three years’ probation. The ruling came after August pleaded guilty to interfering with flight crew members and flight attendants. The money will be taken out of August's paycheck. 10 percent of his gross income will be handed over each month to the airline until the restitution is paid in full. According to court records, August was traveling with his girlfriend and her three children from Honolulu to New York. He allegedly became abusive towards his girlfriend and her children. Two male flight attendants held him down while the captain turned back to the gate. The judge ordered August to reimburse the airline for costs it incurred when turning the plane around, including fuel, maintenance, and ground crew and for passengers who had to catch other flights.
Who wouldn't take a peek? It's human nature. But five nurses at Denver Health Medical Center were suspended for three weeks after they inappropriately viewed a deceased patient's body and talked about it, a hospital spokesman confirmed.
The nurses admired the size of the deceased patient's genitals and at one point opened a body bag to view parts of the body.
A different nurse heard one of the disciplined nurses make a comment that the nurse felt was inappropriate and reported it to hospital staff, Denver Health Medical Center spokesman Josh Rasmussen said.
"Multiple staff members viewed the victim while he was incapacitated, including after he was deceased," a Denver Police report says. Denver Police responded to the incident but say the decision was made to have Denver Health Medical Center handle the issue internally.
"A DPD officer did speak with one of our on-call prosecutors at the time," Ken Lane, communications director for the Denver District Attorney's Office, said. "They determined there was insufficient evidence to prove a crime was committed, no charges were filed, and referred the matter back to Denver Health to handle internally."
Rasmussen said he could not provide the names of the nurses involved. It was not reported exactly how big the body part was.
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
70’s
@75 Tom Landry, American NFL player (NY Giants) and coach (Dallas Cowboys), born in Mission, Texas (d. 2000)
75- Lola Falana [Loletha Elayne], Camden, New Jersey, American singer and actress (Golden Boy, A Man Called Adam)
60’s
@69- Paul "Bear" Bryant, American college football coach (Alabama), born in Moro Bottom, Arkansas (d. 1983)
50’s
55- Kristy McNichol, actress (Buddy-Family, Barbara-Empty Nest), born in Los Angeles, California
52- Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria (2000-), born in Damascus, Syria
50- Harry Connick Jr, singer (We Are in Love), born in New Orleans, Louisiana
40’s
@47- James Thomson, Scottish poet (Rule Britannia), born in Ednam, Scotland (d. 1748)
@47- O Henry, [William Sydney Porter], American short story writer (d. 1910)
@44- D. H. Lawrence, English poet and writer (Lady Chatterley's Lover), born in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire (d. 1930)
40-Ludacris (Christopher Brian Bridges), rapper
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Historical Obits Today
80’s
@89-1972 Max Fleischer, American animator
@85-1994 Jessica Tandy, actress (Driving Miss Daisy)
@82-2005 Chris Schenkel, American sportscaster (Monday Night Fights)
70’s
@77-1971 Nikita Khrushchev, Soviet premier, heart attack
@72-1987 Lorne Greene, actor (Bonanza, Battlestar Galactica), following surgery
60’s
@69-2002 Johnny Unitas, American football player, heart attack
@65-1973 Salvador Allende, President of Chile (1970-73) and the 1st Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through an open election, commits suspected suicide by shooting himself during a military coup
50’s
@54-2003 John Ritter, American actor, aortic dissection
40’s
@42-1987 Peter Tosh, reggae singer shot dead
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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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