Eye Catchers of the Day
- Washington
Post Video: Key moments from the last day before the financial default
deadline, when the Senate and House came together to pass a deal to reopen
the government.
- U.S.
Default by the Numbers: Who Owns the Debt? Bloomberg TV
- New York
Times World: Free digital and mobile access this week, in honor of the launch
of The International New York Times http://is.gd/2pINjV
- Blogger, author, and strategist Jeff Bullas took a dip into the 800 page filing for the Twitter IPO and
came up with some remarkable data about the online social networking and
microblogging service, including reporting Twitter
generates 135,000 registered accounts every day, 58 million tweets a day, with 2.1
billion searches conducted on Twitter every 24 hours. This and a boat load
of other data and fast facts about Twitter can be found at Bullas’ fact filled statistically
rich article “60 Sensational Social Media Facts and Statistics on Twitter in
2013’’
- NBC News:
Ohio lawmakers have given initial
approval to a bill that would provide Ariel Castro's three kidnapping victims
up to $25,000 for each year they were held captive, plus other benefits. http://is.gd/Im174Z
- Russia
Preparing Property Restrictions for Foreigners ¬ Paper
MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) ¬ Russia is drafting changes to the law that
will bar foreigners from owning or renting real estate in the country without
official permission, a state-owned newspaper said Wednesday. The law could come into force by 2015, officials
told the paper.
STATS OF THE DAY
1.)
Despite the ALCS tied at 2-2, the Boston Red Sox have held the lead for just 4 of 36 total innings
played.
2.)
MLB Stat of the Day: Since the ALCS expanded to 7 games (1985), the winner of Game 4 in 2-2
series has gone on to win twice (Indians in 1995, Yankees in ‘98).
- The
average literacy score for Americans ages 16 to 65 places the U.S. 18th out of
22 participating countries. In numeracy, the U.S. ranks 20th out of 22. In “problem-solving in technology-rich
environments” — a measure of the capacity to interact productively with
computers — the U.S. comes in 14th out of 19th, according
to The Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) The Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development which evaluates
the skills of adults in 24 countries. http://is.gd/bfQQhK
. - Student
loan debt now exceeds credit card debt in the U.S. which stands at about $798
billion. - The S &P estimates the 16 day government shutdown took at least $24 billion out of the U.S. economy.
- Forbes Magazine lists American business magnate,
investor and philanthropist, Mark Cuban
net wealth at $2.5 billion. Cuban
was acquitted Wednesday of insider-trading charges when he sold his shares in
an Internet company in 2004. - According to a GAO report, interest on the national debt plus entitlement programs like Social
Security and Medicare –– will absorb
approximately 92 cents of every single dollar of federal revenue before the end
of this decade. - In the
2012 presidential election, 47% of Americans used the internet as a main
campaign news source surpassing newspapers (27%), radio (20%) and magazines (3%),
but still trailing television (67%); just one of 12 trends shaping digital news
as compiled by the Pew Research Center.
http://is.gd/pWpGGG - Benchmark
crude for November delivery gained $1.08, or 1.1 percent, to close at $102.29 a
barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The price of oil rose 1 percent
Wednesday as the U.S. Senate announced a deal that avoided defaulting on its
debt. The average price for a gallon of
gasoline at the pumps rose 1 cent to $3.36, 16 cents cheaper than a month ago
and 41 cents less than at this time last year. - Russia is
set to overtake Germany to become the largest car market in Europe by 2020
and the fifth largest market in the world by then, according to Boston
Consulting Group. - In 2013,
795,000 people in the United States will have a first or recurrent stroke; 1 in six people worldwide will have a
stroke in their lifetime-American Heart Association/American Stroke
Association
Polls/Surveys
- The Conservative Intelligence Briefing: New Jersey Poll: N. J. Gov Chris Christie
(56% ) is more popular than Bruce Springsteen, “The Boss’’ (46%) in the
Garden State.
- “Gimme
Shelter'' is listed as the greatest Rolling Stones' song of all-time by Rolling
Stone Magazine
Today in History
October 17, 1931, Chicago gangster Al Capone is found guilty in federal court on five of the 23
charges brought against him. He was found guilty of three counts of federal tax
evasion for the years, 1925, 1926, and 1927. “Scarface’’ as he was known, was
additionally found guilty of two misdemeanor counts of “willing failure’’ to
file a tax return for 1928 and 1929. A week later, on October 24th, he was
sentenced to 11 years in federal prison. In addition to his prison term, he was
slapped with a $50,000 fine and $30,000 in court cost fees. Capone first
started serving his sentence in Cook County Jail. On May 4, 1932, he was
transferred to Atlanta at one of the toughest penitentiaries in the country.
Once authorities learned he was receiving the comforts of prison life denied to
other prisoners, he was transferred again, this time to Alcatraz (located on an
island in San Francisco Bay) on August 18, 1934, where he was assigned to cell
181 and was given the prison number 85. After his mental capacity increasingly deteriorated
at Alcatraz, he was released in November, 1939, after serving six years and
five months at which point he entered the Baltimore State Mental Institution.
Word Origin
Galvanize, meaning to spur to action, according to William Morris'“
Dictionary of Word and Phrases’’, comes from an 18th century Italian
physiologist, Luigi Galvani, who discovered quite by accident that he could “galvanize’’ frogs and other animals he
was working with, by subjecting them to electric shock.
Looking For a Good Quote?
“Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.’’
-
Albert
Einstein
-
Bill
Lucey
October 17, 2013
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