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October 8, 2015 Week: 41 \ Day: 281
October
Averages: 62°\32°
86004
Today: H 61° \ L 39°
Average Sky Cover: 35%
Wind
ave: 8mph\Gusts: 22mph
Ave.
High: 65° Record High: 80°[1980]
Ave. Low: 34° Record Low: 21°[1900]
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Observances
Today:
Alvin
C. York Day: 8
National
Depression Screening Day Link
National Pierogy Day
Universal Music Day
World
Octopus Day Link
World Sight Day Link
Observances
This Week:
3-11
Albuquerque
International Balloon Fiesta Link
No Salt Week
4-H Week Link
Death Penalty Focus Week (Always has 10th in it)
Emergency Nurses Week Link
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card WeekLink
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week)
National Metric Week
National Midwifery Week Link
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week
World Space Week Link
5-11
Customer
Service Week Link
Drive Safely Work WeekLink
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week Link
National Heimlich Heroes Week
National Metric Week
Spinning & Weaving Week Link
6-12
National Physicians
Assistant Week
World Dairy Expo
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1633 - Massachusetts Bay Colony forms its first
government
1775 - Officers decide to bar slaves & free
blacks from Continental Army
1860 - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1878 - Southern Pacific
Railroad received a charter from the Territory of Arizona and permission to
cross the military reservation at Yuma.
1918 - American soldier Sgt Alvin York
single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1942 - Comedy duo Abbott
and Costello launch their weekly radio show
1944 - "The Adventures of Ozzie and
Harriet" debut on CBS radio
2001 - U.S. President George W.
Bush announces the establishment of the Office of Homeland Security.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1769 - Captain James Cook lands in New
Zealand (Poverty Bay)
1818 - Two English boxers are first to use padded
gloves
1821 - The government of General José de San
Martín establishes the Peruvian Navy
1965 - Post Office Tower opens in London, tallest
building in England
1967 - Guerrilla leader Che Guevara and
his men are captured in Bolivia.
1971 - John Lennon releases his megahit
"Imagine"
1992 - Nobel Prize for literature is given to West
Indies poet Derek Walcott
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Good mid-week day. Nice to be back home. Ran errands.
The destination wedding had me drive a little over 2000 miles
while I was gone. Got good gas mileage for my mid-sized SUV.
I will always remember the Sioux as being tall from my time on
Pine Ridge. I guess I forgot a little when I met the groom’s 3 sons. The groom
is about 6ft, and his sons were all over 6’4”. Size can be very intimidating at
times, but these three guys were funny and very compassionate. Hope I see that
side of the family again.
I love our local newspaper and am very grateful that we still have
a 6-day a week paper with local news. It was bought by some conglomerate a few
years back. We now call a ‘call-center’ in Montana for any and all questions.
They suggest using the internet machine whenever possible. I called to put my
paper on hold while I was at the wedding. When I got home yesterday, I had a
stack of papers on my porch. I was not a happy camper. The call center lady said
she would email my district who would then email the local office who would
then contact the delivery person. I asked her if the conglomerate would have
paid to replace my door it someone had broken in and robbed me. Or what if one
of my neighbors didn’t know I was out of town and called the police for a
welfare check and the cops broke in. She said that would all be in the email. I
told her to have someone in power to call me. This morning I got a call from
the circulation manager here in Flag. Nice guy with lots of apologies. He let
it slip out that ‘this happens a lot’ since they went to the call center. He
also said that they will never know
why it happened, because all hold are done electronically. He did give me local
number to call if I have any other problems. I think it is a burner cell phone
since the conglomerate believes everything is working fine. Guess I’ll find out
when I go to Cuba.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
For
each of the following clues, what is a synonym that contains the letters CAT?
1.Baseball position
2.Copy
3.What you get with a doctor's prescription
4.Underground cemetery
5.Time off from school or work
6.Ten-event contest
7.Disaster
8.Mimic
9.Cows
10.Teacher
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
After coming across a "very sweet"
homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker
took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had
raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he
said he would be "happy again".
According to official documents, Luo Meizhen
was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and
the oldest person ever to have lived.
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…Facebook
Fact…
Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is
colorblind and best sees the shade of blue.
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…Harper’s
Index…
3,350,449
– minimum number of people displaced since 2004 by World Bank projects
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
Lakotaoutlaw Caps sponsored by Donald Trump
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…Strange
Superstitions from Around the World…
5. In Rwanda:
In Rwanda, women are taught not to eat the meat of goats because
eating it will cause them to grow facial hair (via allAfrica)
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
A Mercurian day is longer than its year.
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2
jokes for the day
Q: What did King Tut say when he was scared?
A: I want my mummy!!!
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A customer at a counter of a garden ornament
shop said to the cashier, “Give me four of those pinwheels, two of those pink
flamingos, two of those sunflowers, and one of those bent-over grandmas in
bloomers.”
The cashier replied “that’ll be eight dollars for the pinwheels, ten for the
flamingos, six for the sunflowers, and an apology for my wife!”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
ANGLETON,
Texas - The family of a 12-year-old Texas girl who has been sneezing up
to 20 times per minute for the past month said doctors are stumped by the
condition. Angleton resident Katelyn Thornley,12, said her sneezing fits began
about a month ago and she has since been sneezing up to 20 times per minute --
about 12,000 times per day. "I'm constantly in pain with my abdomen, my
legs are hurting because I've been weak and I can barely eat," Thornley
told KTVT-TV. The girl's parents said they have taken her to six different
physicians, who ruled out allergies and viruses as a cause of the nonstop
sneezing. They said stress appears to make the condition worse. "Anything
you talk to her about that irritates her -- you can see it spike and continuous
sneezing," Thornley's father told KRIV-TV. "It's easy to
trigger." Thornley said she takes Benadryl to help her sleep at night.
"Sometimes I wish I could leave my body for a little while so I could
watch myself sleep and be at peace because even in my dreams, I sneeze,"
she said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
October
is shared by the astrological signs of Libra the Scales (or Balance) and
Scorpio the Scorpion, and is sacred to the following Pagan deities: Cernunnos,
Hecate, the Morrigan, Osiris, and the Wiccan Goddess in Her dark aspect as the
Crone.
The traditional birthstone amulets of October are opal, rose sapphire, and
tourmaline; and the calendula is the month's traditional flower.
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Hawaii
has a special October event called "the Aloha Festival," sometimes
described as the "Mardi Gras of the Pacific."
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
79 - Rona Barrett, gossip columnist (Tomorrow Show)
75 - Paul Hogan, Australia, actor (Crocodile Dundee,
Lightning Jack)
74 - Jesse Jackson, Greenville SC, clergyman/presidential
candidate (D)
72 - Chevy Chase, comedian/actor (SNL, Vacation, Fletch,
Caddyshack)
72 - R. L. Stine, Columbus, Ohio, children's book writer
(Goosebumps)
66 - Sigourney Weaver [Susan Alexandra], LA, actress
(Alien, Working Girl)
(66) - William John Swainson,
English naturalist and artist d. 1855
(65) - Frank [Patrick] Herbert,
US, sci-fi author (Dune) d.1986
(55) - Johnny Ramone [Cummings], Long Island, rock
guitarist (Ramones) d.2004
(55) - Janice Voss, astronaut (shuttle radar topography
mission), d. 2012
50 - Matt Biondi, US 100m swimmer (Olympics-3 gold-84, 88, 92)
45 - Matt Damon, actor (Good Will Hunting, Ocean's trilogy,
Bourne trilogy)
35 - Nick Cannon, American actor and rapper (Love Don't Cost
a Thing)
30 - Bruno Mars [Peter Gene Hernandez], American singer
("Just the Way You Are", "Grenade")
22 - Angus T. Jones,
American actor (Two and a Half Men)
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Historical
Obits Today
Willy Brandt,
chancellor of West Germany (1969-74), cancer-1992@78
Franklin Pierce, 14th
President, cirrhosis-1869@64
Nigel Bruce, actor (Dr.
Watson-Sherlock Holmes movies), heart attack-1953@58
John Hancock, US
merchant/statesman (Decl of Independence)-1793@56
Wendell Lewis Wilkie, Republican politician, heart attack-1944@52
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1.(cat)cher
2.dupli(cat)e
3.medi(cat)ion
4.(cat)acomb
5.va(cat)ion
6.de(cat)hlon
7.(cat)astrophe
8.copy(cat)
9.(cat)tle
10.edu(cat)or
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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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