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[IceWizard]

Saturday 3 Dec 2016



Disability Day



Disability Day, or the International Day of People with Disability, is a day that has been promoted by the United Nations since 1992.

The aim of Disability Day is to encourage a better understanding of people affected by a disability, together with helping to make people more aware of the rights, dignity and welfare of disabled people, as well as raise awareness about the benefits of integrating disabled persons into every aspect of life, from economic, to political, to social and cultural.

Disability Day is not concerned exclusively with either mental or physical disabilities, but rather encompasses all known disabilities, from Autism to Down Syndrome to Multiple Sclerosis.

The History of Disability Day

Everything started in 1976, when the United Nations General Assembly made the decision that 1981 should be the International Year of Disabled Persons.

The 5 years between the making of that decision and the actual Year of Disabled Persons were spent contemplating the hardships of the disabled, how the opportunities of the disabled could be equalized, and how to ensure the disabled take part fully in community life enjoying all of the rights and benefits non-disabled citizens have.

Another issue that was touched on was how world governments could go about preventing disabilities from touching people in the first place, so much of the talk was about the viruses and other illnesses that lead to various kinds of disability.

The decade between 1983 and 1992 was later proclaimed the United Nations Decade of Disabled Persons, and during that time, all of the concepts previously created became parts of one long process that was implemented in order to improve the lives of disabled persons the world over.



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Roof Over Your Head Day

“Love is not all you need – you will also need food, clothes and a roof over your heads. Silly, but so true.” Moffat Machingura

At the end of a long day, there’s nothing quite like coming back to a warm house, with family and friends. When you’ve been working, or its cold outside, or even when you’ve just gone out for a walk, home is the place you dream of coming back to.

But for some people that’s not an option that exists, there is no roof over their head to come home to. Roof Over Your Head Day reminds you to take a moment to appreciate the fact that you have a place to hang your hat, or if you don’t, to keep working for that most important of dreams.

History of Roof Over Your Head Day

Born out of a response to the number of homeless people that are out there, even in highly developed first world countries, Roof Over Your Head Day serves to bring awareness to the fact that there are so many people out there who don’t have this basic need.

100 million people are estimated to not have a roof over their head, and of those that do, 1.6 billion are seen as having inadequate housing for themselves and their family.

What Roof Over Your Head Day really is, is a call to charity and social awareness.

Homelessness is a real problem, but it can be overcome. There have been a lot of creative moves made to help alleviate this problem, with one notable method being rolled out in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The city discovered it was paying $20,000 a year to handle their homeless issue, including policing, arrests, healthcare, jail time, just to name a few.

So instead they built homes they could put their homeless into for just $7,800 a year. Since then, homeless in the city has dropped by 72%, all while saving the town money.

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December 3 Birthdays




Ozzy Osbourne - 68



Andy Williams - (1927-2012)



Daryl Hannah - 56






December 3rd

1988: Miami-based dance-pop band Will To Power reached the top of the Billboard Hot 100 Singles Chart for one week with a medley of Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way” and Lynyrd Skynyrd’s “Free Bird”.

1986: Judas Priest and CBS Records were sued by James Vance and the family of Raymond Belknap alleging that they were responsible for Vance and Belknap forming a suicide pact and shooting themselves in the head after listening to Judas Priest’s records for six hours. The lawsuit would later be dismissed in 1990.

1980: Kiss performed their last concert with original guitarist Ace Frehley at Western Springs Stadium in Auckland, New Zealand until their 1996 reunion tour.

1979: Eleven people were trampled to death after a stampede to claim general admission seats at The Who’s concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati.

1977: Paul McCartney and Wings topped the U.K. Singles Chart for the first of nine weeks with “Mull of Kintyre” which became the first single to sell more than two million copies in the U.K.

1976: In Kingston, Jamaica, seven gunmen broke into Bob Marley’s home and began shooting. Marley, his wife Rita and manager were in the home, but weren’t hurt.

1976: A 40 foot inflatable pig was being photographed outside of London when it broke free from its moorings and drifted toward the east. There was a warning issued to pilots that a flying pig was on the run. The pig was used for the album cover of Pink Floyd’s Animals.

1971: During a Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention concert in Montreux, Switzerland, the building burned down. Deep Purple immortalized the incident in their song “Smoke on the Water” released the following year.

1969: John Lennon was offered title role in the rock opera Jesus Christ, Superstar. The offer was withdrawn the following day.



Birthdays:

Ozzy Osbourne born in 1948

Mickey Thomas - Singer for Jefferson Starship born in 1949

Duane Roland - Guitarist for Molly Hatchet born in 1953