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5.12.16 Week: 19 \ Day: 133
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 70° \ L 33° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 1mph\Gusts: 10mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 86°[1996] Record Low: 20°[1983]
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Quote
of the Day
Justice delayed is justice denied. ~William Gladstone
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Observances This Week
6-12
8-14
Food Allergy Awareness Week Link
National Hospital Week Link
National Hug Holiday Week
National Nursing Home Week
National Police Week
National Return To Work Week
National Women's Health Week Link
Reading is Fun Week Link
Salute to Moms 35+ Week
9-13
National Etiquette Week
9-14
Salvation Army Week Link
9-15
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
10-16
12-16
Neuropathy Awareness Week Link
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1777 1st ice cream advertisement
(Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1792 Toilet that
flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1858 Comanche Chief
Iron Jacket (Po-hebitsquash) is killed in a fight with Texas Rangers on the
Canadian River.
1902 Some 140,000
miners of anthracite coal in Pennsylvania go out on a strike called by the
United Mine Workers after the owners have refused to recognize the UMW, let
alone negotiate or submit to arbitration; Roosevelt later threatens to have the
army run the mine
1921 National
Hospital Day 1st observed
1932 Body of
kidnapped son of Charles Lindbergh is found in Hopewell, NJ
1938 Sandoz Labs
manufactures LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide)
1949 1st foreign
woman ambassador received in USA (Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India)
1982 Pulitzer
prize awarded to John Updike (Rabbit is Rich)
1989 Last graffiti
covered NYC subway car retired
2002 Former US
President Jimmy Carter arrives in Cuba for a five-day visit
with Fidel Castrobecoming first President of the United States, in or out
of office, to visit the island since Castro's 1959 revolution.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
563 St
Columcille establishes a community on Iona
1215 English
barons serve ultimatum on King John; leads to Magna Carta
1977 1st quadrophonic
concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1984 South African
prisoner Nelson Mandela sees his wife for 1st time in 22 years
1997 Susie
Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida
2012 The discovery
of a missing Mayan calendar piece disproves 2012 Armageddon
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Interesting day…went in for hopefully my last
blood draw. Took longer than usual as the first part, to find out my RBC count
failed to work. That adds an additional 15 minutes to the process. But, the
good news is I was at 51% and the draws hopefully stop at 50%. It had almost
been a week since the last draw, so hopefully the downward trend will continue.
Headed to Sam’s Club and ran into a colleague
from my BIA days. Nice to catch up. He retired 2 years ago and is enjoying it. He
is headed to the Philippines this year for 3 weeks with his girlfriend who is
from there.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Modern Words
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and
manipulate words and letters.
Below are incomplete words. Place
two letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and
begin the word on the right. Good luck.
Fu (--) am
Ed (--) ar
Dit (--) urch
Ju (--) eam
Ran (--) ese
Divi (--) bt
Pi (--) upt
Dro (--) rse
Tr (--) aze
Bud (--) nder
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…Harper’s
Index…
11-Age
at which a patient may be prescribed OxyContin, according to an August FDA
decision
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeo Photograph by @JohnStanmeyer
Kazakh horseman heading across the steppes after playing Kokpar in the
Mangystau region of Kazakhstan.
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2
jokes for the day
TEACHER: Millie, give me a sentence starting
with "I".
MILLIE: I is...
TEACHER: No, Millie... Always say, "I am."
MILLIE: All right... "I am the ninth letter of the alphabet."
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A man goes into a coffee shop and says,
"I would like one of your special breakfasts."
"No problem," comes the reply from behind the counter.
"But I want it my way," says the man.
"What do you mean 'your way'?" asks the waiter.
The man says, "Well, I want the eggs only half done," he says.
"I want the baked beans done so they are baking hot on the top and
freezing cold on the bottom. I want the bacon stuck to the plate with grease,
with more rind than actual bacon. I want fried bread so greasy that the grease
pours out of it."
"I don't have the time to do all that!" replies the waiter.
"Well it seemed you had the time yesterday!" answers the guest.
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*------ Man Doesn't Notice He shot Himself ------*
DELTONA, Fla. - Authorities in Florida said a
man accidentally shot himself while cleaning his gun and didn't notice the
wound until he changed his shirt two days later. The Volusia County Sheriff's
Office said deputies responded to a report of a shooting victim at Florida
Hospital Fish Memorial and they spoke with Deltona resident Michael Blevins,
37, who had checked himself in to the hospital with a bullet wound. Blevins
told deputies he was cleaning his .22 caliber pistol Thursday in the living
room of his home and he was holding the gun close to his chest to prevent his
dog from jumping near it. The man said he felt a sharp pain in his back from a
previous injury and when he tried to stand up the gun fired. He said he did not
believe the bullet had struck him until Saturday, when he removed his
long-sleeved black shirt and discovered the bullet's entry and exit wounds on
his arm. Blevins said the medication he takes for his back injury may have
prevented him from feeling any pain from the gunshot.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(91) Otto Frank,
father
of Anne Frank (d.1990)
(90) Florence Nightingale,
Florence,
Tuscany, Italy, British nurse (Crimean War), n (d. 1910)
(90) Yogi Berra [Lawrence
Peter Berra],
St.
Louis, American baseball catcher, coach and manager (NY Yankees, Mets) (d. 2015)
(87) Howard K Smith,
LA,
TV newsman (ABC, Moderated Kennedy-Nixon debate) (d.2002)
(83) Mary Kay Ash,
American
businesswoman, founded Mary Kay Cosmetics (d. 2001)
(71) Tom Snyder,
Milwaukee, Wisc, newscaster (Tommorow, NBC Weekend News) (d. 2007)
(71) George Carlin,
The
Bronx, comedian (7 dirty words, AM & FM, Carwash) (d.2008)
68- Steve Winwood,
England,
musician (A Higher Love, Roll with it)
66- Bruce Boxleitner,
Elgin
Il, actor (Scarecrow & Mrs King, Babylon 5)
66- Gabriel Byrne,
Dublin,
Ireland, actor (Hello Again, Cool World)
57- Ving Rhames, American actor
54- Emilio Estevez,
NYC, actor
(Breakfast Club, Young Guns, Mighty Ducks)
50- Stephen Baldwin,
actor
(Beast, Lawrenceville Stories, Usual Suspects)
48 Tony Hawk,
Carlsbad,
Ca, American skateboarder
47- Kim Fields Freeman,
Los
Angeles, actress (Tootie-Facts of Life)
(35) Julius Rosenberg,
1st US civilian executed for espionage (d.1953)
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Historical
Obits Today
@91-1994 Erik Erikson,
American
developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase
"identity crisis"
@88-2001 Perry Como,
American
singer (b. 1912)
@67-1962 Dick Calkins,
co-author
(Buck Rogers)
@59-1992 Robert Reed,
actor
(Brady Bunch), AIDs
@31-1864 J.E.B. Stuart [James
Ewell Brown "Jeb" Stuart],
Confederate
General, battle wound
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Fuse - seam
Edge - gear
Ditch - church
Just - steam
Range - geese
Divide - debt
Pier - erupt
Drove - verse
Tram - amaze
Budge - gender
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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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