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In 1976, former hostage Patricia Hearst was sentenced to seven years in prison for her part in a 1974 bank robbery in San Francisco carried out by the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Hearst was released after 22 months after receiving clemency from President Jimmy Carter.)

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In 1988, Canadian sprinter Ben Johnson won the men's 100-meter dash at the Seoul (sohl) Summer Olympics - but he was disqualified three days later for using anabolic steroids. Members of the eastern Massachusetts Episcopal diocese elected Barbara C. Harris the first female bishop in the church's history.

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In 1991, kidnappers in Lebanon freed British hostage Jack Mann after holding him captive for more than two years. Children's author Theodor Seuss Geisel (GY'-zul), better known as "Dr. Seuss," died in La Jolla, California, at age 87.

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In 1995, Israel and the PLO agreed to sign a pact at the White House ending nearly three decades of Israeli occupation of West Bank cities. Eric Borel, a 16-year-old in Cuers, France, shot and killed 12 people before taking his own life, a day after he'd killed three family members.

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Ten years ago: Hurricane Rita struck eastern Texas and the Louisiana coast, causing more flooding in New Orleans. Crowds opposed to the war in Iraq surged past the White House, staging the largest anti-war protest in the nation's capital since the U.S. invasion. Vice President Dick Cheney had surgery to repair aneurysms on the back of both knees.

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Five years ago: President Barack Obama and Southeast Asian leaders meeting in New York sent China a firm message over territorial disputes between Beijing and its neighbors, calling for freedom of navigation in seas that China claimed as its own. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg pledged $100 million over the next five years to Newark, New Jersey, schools a week before the release of the biographical movie "The Social Network." Gennady Yanayev, 73, a leader of the abortive 1991 coup who had briefly declared himself Soviet president, died in Moscow.

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One year ago: At the opening of the U.N. General Assembly's annual ministerial meeting, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for world leaders to join an international campaign to ease the plight of nearly unprecedented numbers of refugees, the displaced and victims of violence in a world wracked by wars and the swift-spreading and deadly Ebola epidemic. President Barack Obama implored the leaders to rally behind his expanded military campaign to stamp out the violent Islamic State group and its "network of death." A visibily upset President Francois Hollande of France announced that an al-Qaida splinter group had beheaded Herve Gourdel, a French mountaineer kidnapped while hiking in Algeria.

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Today's Birthdays: Rhythm-and-blues singer Sonny Turner (The Platters) is 76. Singer Barbara Allbut Brown (The Angels) is 75. Singer Phyllis "Jiggs" Allbut Sirico (The Angels) is 73. Singer Gerry Marsden (Gerry and the Pacemakers) is 73. News anchor Lou Dobbs is 70. Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Joe Greene is 69. Actor Gordon Clapp is 67. Songwriter Holly Knight is 59. Former U.S. Rep. Joseph Kennedy II, D-Mass., is 63. Actor Kevin Sorbo is 57. Christian/jazz singer Cedric Dent (Take 6) is 53. Actress-writer Nia Vardalos is 53. Rock musician Shawn Crahan (AKA Clown) (Slipknot) is 46. Country musician Marty Mitchell is 46. Actress Megan Ward is 46. Singer-musician Marty Cintron (No Mercy) is 44. Contemporary Christian musician Juan DeVevo (Casting Crowns) is 40. Actor Ian Bohen is 39. Actor Justin Bruening is 36. Olympic gold medal gymnast Paul Hamm (hahm) is 33. Actor Erik Stocklin is 33. Actor Kyle Sullivan is 27.

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Thought for Today: "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand."

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The Fisherman
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A farmer in the country noticed that a gentleman would fish   
at the lake (close to the farmer's house) and would always   
leave with a stringer full of fish.

The fellow had a boat but a fishing pole was not to be seen.
The farmer mentioned the situation to the game warden. The   
warden then started watching this man and all that the   
farmer said was true! The man would arrive at the lake in   
the morning and by early afternoon, he had a stringer full   
of fish.


The warden dressed like a fisherman one day and approached   
the man. They exchanged pleasantries and the stranger asked   
the warden in disguise to come fish with him. They boated   
for 45 minutes and arrived at a secluded spot.


The stranger then pulled out a stick of dynamite. The warden
said, "I'm going to have to place you under arrest--I am a   
game warden and you are fishing illegally!"


The stranger calmly lit the stick of dynamite and handed it   
to the warden. The stranger then said, "Are you gonna talk   
or fish?"

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning, Chip. Short banter day for me. Hired some new people here at work (finally), and one of them will be sitting with me from 9:30-2:30 to learn how we do what we do, so I'll be MIA.

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Morning, Chip. Short banter day for me. Hired some new people here at work (finally), and one of them will be sitting with me from 9:30-2:30 to learn how we do what we do, so I'll be MIA.

Good morning Dave. I don't guess talking on the banter or teaching him what the best TV to watch while at work will get you any bonus points with the bosses.

[LuvTooGolf]

Morning, Chip. Short banter day for me. Hired some new people here at work (finally), and one of them will be sitting with me from 9:30-2:30 to learn how we do what we do, so I'll be MIA.

Good morning Dave. I don't guess talking on the banter or teaching him what the best TV to watch while at work will get you any bonus points with the bosses.

Lol, that's what I was thinking.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Morning, Chip. Short banter day for me. Hired some new people here at work (finally), and one of them will be sitting with me from 9:30-2:30 to learn how we do what we do, so I'll be MIA.

Teach them how to Banter.

[South Carolina Redfish]

Morning Golf & LSU.  Happy Thursday Off Chip, hope you can recover from the crack office.