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5.15.16 Week: 20 \ Day: 136
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 78° \ L 43° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 2mph\Gusts: 25mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 81°[1937] Record Low: 20°[1968]
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Quote
of the Day
The way to get started is to stop
talking and start doing ~Walt Disney
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Observances
Today
Bay to Breakers Race Note: Oldest Footrace in America!
Hyperemisis Gravidarum Awareness Day
International Day of Families
International MPS Awareness
Day Link
Morel Mushroom Day
National Slider Day (Food)
National Tuberous Sclerosis
Day Link
Nylon Stockings Day
Straw Hat Day Link
World Migratory Bird Day
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Observances
This Week
9-15
National Stuttering Awareness Week
Spring Astronomy Week
10-16
12-16
Neuropathy Awareness Week Link
13-15
Art On The Square Link
15-21
EMS (Emergency Medical Services)
Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National Heritage Breeds Week Link
National Medical Transcription Week Link
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
15-18
National Stationery Week
15-21
National Transportation Week
World Trade Week
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1602 Cape Cod
discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1672 1st copyright law
enacted by Massachusetts
1711 Alexander
Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" is published anonymously
1817 Opening of
the first private mental health hospital in the United States, the Asylum for
the Relief of Persons Deprived of the Use of Their Reason (now Friends Hospital)
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1862 US Department
of Agriculture created
1869 National
Woman Suffrage Association forms in New York, founded by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
1915 AT&T
becomes 1st corporation to have 1 million stockholders
1942 Gasoline 1st
rationed in US (17 Eastern States)
1957 18,000 people
at Madison Sq Garden-Billy Graham launched a crusade
1958 "Gigi"
based on the story by Colette, directed by Vincent Minnelli and starring
Leslie Caron and Maurice Chevalier premieres in New York (Best Picture 1959)
1963 Peter, Paul
& Mary win their 1st Grammy (If I Had a Hammer)
1963 5th Grammy
Awards: I Left My Heart In San Francisco, Robert Goulet wins
1972 Assassination
attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Md
2002 "Bowling for
Columbine", a documentary directed by Michael Moore has its
premiere at the Cannes Film Festival
2008 California becomes
the second U.S. state after Mass. in 2004 to legalize same-sex marriage after
the state's own Supreme Court rules a previous ban unconstitutional.
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1395 - Richard II
returns to England on this date, confident that Gaelic Irish power has been
checked
1536 Anne Boleyn &
brother George, Lord Rochford, accused of adultery and incest
1618 Johannes
Kepler discovers harmonics law
1970 South-Africa
excluded from Olympic play
1990 "Portrait
of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent van Gogh sold for $82.5 million
2003 Four world records
are made at Christie's annual Irish art sale; the main record breaker is for a
mountainous wooded landscape with figures by 18th-century artist George Barret
which sells for £320,000
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice Saturday here at 7000’, warm, little
wind, a little cloudy…great day to enjoy.
I am trying to figure out what life must be
like in the states that are fighting the transgender thing in restrooms. Mostly
every person I see in a public restroom is a stranger. If the stranger is
standing at the urinal, I assume he has the necessary equipment to be
successful. If he heads into a stall, I don’t ask myself what he is doing in
there. I am there to do business, the stranger is there to do business. What is
the big deal? If I entered a restroom and saw a stranger, dressed as a woman,
standing at the urinal, I must admit I would be taken aback. I would not be
horrified, or damaged for life. If a stranger, dressed as a woman, walked out
of a stall in a men’s bathroom, I would simply assume she had read the sign
incorrectly. Again I wouldn’t be horrified or damaged.
I will never understand how narrow-minded
people live their lives. Are they offended by everything not in their mindset?
Do they have a strong desire to make everyone live in their mindset? I really
like Coca Cola and really don’t like Pepsi. I buy Coke when it’s available. If
all that is available is Pepsi, I usually find a different drink. I have never
told anyone to stop drinking Pepsi, never suggested that a store stop selling
Pepsi, never refused to be friends with someone who only drinks Pepsi. I will avoid
a person if they insist that I drink Pepsi. Who cares what I drink or what you
drink?
And about Locker Rooms. I never liked
undressing and redressing in them. Being naked is a very personal thing. Jr.
High and High School locker rooms are horrific. Young men and young women,
seeing their classmates naked is weird. Having a fully dressed gym teacher
there makes it even stranger. Boys will be boys in making comparisons about one’s
maturity was far from enjoyable, especially when one is more mature or less
mature than others. I was told not be embarrassed by my physical development…sounds
easy but it is not. Maybe all this transgender stuff will revamp all school
locker rooms to offer more privacy for everyone.
It is graduation weekend in our little town.
Some 5000 students are graduating at various ceremonies yesterday and today.
Good luck to all the grads! Traffic on the east side has been heavy all weekend…Campus/graduation
is on the west side. But in a small town like ours, where do you put an
additional 10,000+ people, assuming each grad has only two guests.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Cryptic Bones
Science brain teasers require
understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that govern it.
Difficulty:
3.0
Some of our bones have names that
have other meanings. Here are eight to work out.
1. Fashionable and trendy
2. One of Rome's hills
3. A type of quadrilateral
4. Related to time; mortal
5. Part of a circle
6. Solid with lots of right angles
7. Shaped like a crescent (moon)
8. To pull someone's leg
The hint will give the number of letters, and the region of the skeleton where
the bone many be found.
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…Harper’s
Index…
-98-Percentage
change since 1977 in the number of institutionalized US children
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto by @shonephoto (Robbie Shone)
- Photograph from inside the Tomb of the Nubian King Tantamani (Tawentamani) at
el-Kurru in Sudan, which was originally excavated in rock under the pyramids
that are now partially collapsed. The tomb is completely decorated with amazing
images of the Pharaoh, of the gods and multicolor hieroglyphic inscriptions.
Uncle Ali the key holder, illuminates a part of the wall and paintings for us.
View more from this ancient civilization @shonephoto
as I slowly unravel it. @natgeocreative
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2
jokes for the day
I was inspecting a communications facilities in Alaska. Since I had little
experience in flying in small planes, I was nervous when we approached a
landing strip in a snow-covered area. The pilot descended to just a couple
hundred feet, then gunned both engines, climbed, and circled back. While my
heart pounded, the passenger beside me seemed calm.
"I wonder why he didn't land," I said.
"He was checking to see if the landing strip was plowed," the man
said.
As we made a second approach, I glanced out the window. "It looks plowed
to me," I commented.
"No," my seat mate said. "It hasn't been cleared for some
time."
"How can you tell?" I asked.
"Because," the man informed me, "I'm the guy who drives the
plow."
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Question: What’s the best way to make a small
fortune in the stock market?
Answer: Start off with a big one.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*--------------------- Chubbs? ---------------------*
A Florida man lost his left hand to an
alligator after he jumped into a lake to get away from the police following a
fight with his mother. You'd think somebody from Florida would know better.
Lakeland police said that 21-year-old Jesse Kinsinger, was taken to the
Lakeland Regional Health Center, after a 10-foot-long alligator ripped off his
left hand while trying to flee from police. According to the police
investigation, Kinsinger had an argument with his mother. The mother called the
police because she feared that her son, who suffers from post-traumatic stress
disorder, is getting out of control. Police searched around the area using a
helicopter and dogs. Jesse was found lying on the ground near a lake behind the
house with most of his left arm missing. He had multiple surgeries, and is
expected to survive.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In the United States, approximately 7 percent
of households are millionaires.
According to the book The Millionaire Next Door, only 20 percent of
millionaires inherited their wealth. The other 80 percent earned their cash on
their own.
Half of all millionaires are self-employed or own their own business.
***
Around 80 percent of millionaires are college
graduates. Only 18 percent of millionaires have Master's degrees. Eight percent
have law degrees, 6 percent have medical degrees, and 6 percent have PhDs.
The average millionaire goes bankrupt at least 3.5 times.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
(90) Katherine
Anne Porter,
US,
novelist (Ship of Fools) (d.1980)
(89) Eddy Arnold,
Henderson
TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime) (d.2008)
80- Anna Maria Alberghetti,
Italy,
singer/actress (Cinderfella)
79- Trini Lopez,
Trinidad,
singer/guitarist (If I Had A Hammer
)
48- Paul Rudd,
Boston,
actor (Conn Yankee in King Arthur's Court)
61- Lee Horsley,
Muleshoe
Tx, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
47- Emmitt Smith,
Pensacola,
Fl, American NFL running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
(46) Pierre Curie,
France,
physicist (Nobel 1903) (d.1906)
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Historical
Obits Today
@73-2007 Jerry
Falwell,
American
evangelist, cardiac arrest
@73-2003 June Carter Cash,
American
musician/singer, surgery complications
@71-1986 Theodore
H White,
US
journalist (Making of Pres, Pulitzer), stroke
@~55-1886 Emily Dickinson,
US
poet, Bright’s disease
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Hip
2. Palatine
3. Trapezium (or trapezoid)
4. Temporal
5. Radius
6. Cuboid
7. Lunate
8. Rib
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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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