Today is the first day of autumn.
The Center for Screen Time Awareness has deemed this week as Turn-off TV week. The organization encourages all Americans to turn –off the tube and spend some time with the family. And get active. http://www.tvturnoff.org/
Facts...
…50% of American homes have at least 3 TVs.
…The average US home has the television on for well over 8 hours a day.
…The average American watches 4 and a half hours of television each day.
Statistics are from Nielson 2006
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CAIRO, Egypt (CNN) — A group of 11 European tourists and four Egyptians have been kidnapped in southern Egypt and were apparently taken to neighboring Sudan. http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/
BEIJING, China (CNN) — China’s top quality control official resigned earlier today in the wake of a tainted milk scandal that has caused the death of four children and sickened at least 53,000, China’s state-run news agency reported.
The chemical melamine blamed for causing kidney stones and kidney failure has been detected in formula milk powder from 22 dairies across China.
The Bush administration hoping to finalize a ‘financial life line’ this week.
A proposed seven-hundred-billion dollar bailout plan has been sent to Congress.
The proposal calls for Washington to buy up the bad mortgage loans of numerous financial institutions.
The biggest restructuring on Wall Street since the Great Depression continues. Federal regulators converted Wall Street's remaining stand-alone investment banks, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley, into bank holding companies Sunday night. What that means, reports CNNMoney.com, is the end of the era of the Wall Street investment bank, a storied institution that traded stocks and bonds, advised mergers and showered lavish bonuses on executives
http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/21/news/companies/goldman_morgan/index.htm
The death toll has risen to 53 in that deadly bombing at a Marriot Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan. Two U.S. Marines lost their lives in the attack.
Officials in Lancaster, California will be sending crews out to pave over a quarter-mile strip of asphalt grooved to play the William Tell Overture when auto tires speed over it. The road was completed earlier this month as part of an ad campaign for Honda. The specially grooved road was engineered to play the overture - also known as the theme to "The Lone Ranger" - at perfect pitch for motorists driving Honda Civics at 55 mph. But neighbors aren't amused. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080921/D93AP50G1.html
SPORTS: Mary Garber, longtime sports writer for the Winston-Salem Journal passed away on Sunday. She was 92. Garber was among the nation’s first female sportswriters. http://www.salisburypost.com/Area/092208-Mary-Garber--one-of-first-female-sportwriters--dies
http://www.journalnow.com/content/2008/sep/22/she-stood-very-tall-in-a-mans-world/news/
NASCAR: Greg Biffle wins his second race in a row in the ‘Chase’ race for the Championship.
Over 50,000 Yankee fans came to Yankee Stadium one last time on Sunday. A new 1.3 million dollar Yankee Stadium will open next April.
