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5.4.16 Week: 18 \ Day: 126
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 72° \ L 35° Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 86°[1947] Record Low: 18°[1950]
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Quote
of the Day
I’d
rather attempt to do something great and fail than attempt to do nothing and
succeed. Robert A. Schaller
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Observances
Today
Cartoonists Day
Childhood Stroke Awareness Day Link
International Day of The Midwife Link
International Roller Derby Day Link
Isra Al Mi'Raj
Martin Z. Mollusk Day Link
National Children's Mental Health Awareness Day Link
National Day of Prayer Link
National Day of Reason
Revenge of the Fifth (Star Wars Sith) Link
Totally Chipotle Day
World Password Day
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Observances
This Week
1-7
Be Kind To Animals Week
Children's Mental Health Week Link
Choose Privacy Week Link
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week Link
Drinking Water Week Link
Flexible Work Arrangement Week
Goodwill Industries Week
International Clitoris Awareness Week Link
Kids Win Week
NAOSH Week Link
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week
National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week
National Correctional Officer's Week Link
National Family Week
National Hug Holiday Week
National Pet Week Link
National Post Card Week Link
National Raisin
Week Link
National Small Business Week Link
National Tourism Week Link
National Wildflower Week
North American Occupational
Safety & Health Week Link
Public Service Recognition Week Link
Update Your References Week
2-6
Children's Book Week
Teacher Appreciation Week Link
National Safety Stand Down Week (Constuction Falls) Link
2-8
National WildflowerWeek
PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
Work At Home Moms Week
3-11
(World) Dystonia Awareness
Week Link
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1809 Mary Kies is
1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1816 American
Bible Society organized (NY)
1865 1st US train
robbery (North Bend Ohio)
1877 Indian
Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada to avoid
harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles.
1891 Music Hall
(Carnegie Hall) opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor
1920 Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested on charges and robbery of a paymaster at a
shoe factory in Massachusetts, US - the two men will executed
1925 John T Scopes
arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1926 Sinclair
Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1935 Jesse Owens
of US sets long jump record at 26' 8½"
1941 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1942 US begins
rationing sugar during WW II
1947 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1952 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1955 "Damn
Yankees" opens at 46th St Theater NYC for 1022 performances
1958 Pulitzer
prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1961 Alan Shepard
becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7) 1962 West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 &
stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1969 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night) 1971 Race riot in Brownsville section of Brooklyn
(NYC)
1975 Pulitzer
prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1997 "Married
With Children" final episode on Fox TV
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1646 King Charles I surrenders
in Scotland
1842 City-wide
fire burns for over 100 hours (Hamburg Germany)
1847 American
Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1862 French army
intervenes in Puebla, Mexico: Cinco de Mayo
1916 - Irish patriot
and a leader of the 1916 Easter Uprising, John MacBride, is executed by firing
squad in Kilmainham Gaol
1941 First modern
perfume Chanel No. 5 released.
1941 - Kate O'Brien's
novel The Land of Spices is banned by the Free State Board of Censors; protests
will eventually lead to the setting up of an appeals procedure
1944 Gandhi freed
from prison
1999 - Sinn Féin leader
Gerry Adams suggests that full implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
could mean the end of the IRA
2014 China
announces it will upgrade Ethiopia's infrastructure in an effort to improve a
China-Africa strategic partnership
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My
Rambling Thoughts
So I go to the blood doc to get results of
last week’s disastrous blood draw. Appointment is at 9am. At 9:20 I go into the
room. A few minutes later I hear my doctor on the phone, and hear my name and
he is upset that all the results of the blood draw aren’t there. At 9:40 a
woman comes in, says that the lab didn’t run all the tests that were ordered. AND
they want another draw. I explain that I will go to the hospital lab after the
last mess at their lab—4 pokes and having to stop all blood draws for a week.
She says she will get the order. She comes back about 15 minutes later, after
two other people asked me what I was waiting for. The lady who gave me a lab
said I’d need to come back in a week. When I made the appointment, that lady
said the back room said 2 weeks. My response was ‘Whatever!” in a rather sarcastic
voice. I got the appointment and left.
Then my PCP office just called to see if I had seen the blood dr yet. No
communication. And the two offices just
have to look out the window to see each office. A can and a string would work
easily.
On a much brighter note, I have been using a
sonic-care toothbrush for at least 2 decades, if not longer. About a decade
ago, I bought a new one, just like the old one. Well two weeks ago I bought a
new model. I cannot believe how great the new one is. The packaging says
removes 7 times the plaque. I don’t know how to measure that, but I do
know that the smaller brush head makes it easier to clean my teeth, and the
timer that lets you know when to switch quadrants is amazing. Teeth never felt
cleaner…and there is a travel case, making it easier to take on trips. I never
took the old one on my trips, as it was too big and the charger was too big.
This new one says it will stay charged for three weeks. Long enough for most of
my trips. Happy camper.
Have some GOOD tequila for Cinco de Mayo….not
the cheap stuff.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Burning Question
Science brain teasers
require understanding of the physical or biological world and the laws that
govern it.
How can paper burn without any
damage?
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…Harper’s
Index…
60-Percentage of US boys aged 15-19 who were
sexually active in 1988
47-who are today
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhotograph by
Michael Yamashita. @yamashitaphoto -
Hakata Dontaku, Kyushu's most colorful festival, takes place on May 3 and
4, coinciding with the Golden Week holidays. More than 15,000 dancers will
parade down main street of#Fukuoka. #goldenweek #Hakatadontaku #kyushu #Japan @thephotosociety@natgeocreative
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2
jokes for the day
A college professor was giving a big science test. Upon collecting the tests
she noticed a note attached to one of them with a $100 bill underneath it. The
note read, “One dollar per point please.”
The professor returned the test the following with $40 and a note attached. The
note read, “Here's your $40 change.”
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My four year old daughter had a terrible case
of the flu. She was achy, had a high fever, and was terribly hoarse. After
waiting in the waiting room at the doctor’s office for over an hour we were
finally admitted to see the Doctor.
After the usual routine of listening to her breathing and checking her ears,
the Doctor asked my daughter, “So what would you say is bothering you the
most?”
After a brief pause, my daughter replies, “My little brother Steven, he always
breaks my toys.”
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-------- Smarter Than the Average Bear --------*
A North Carolina family said they awoke to
strange noises and discovered a black bear eating a bag of Hershey's Kisses in
their kitchen. Ashley Snyder said she was home with her husband, Benjamin, and
their young children when she awoke about 5 a.m. to crinkling sounds coming from
the kitchen. Snyder's husband, Benjamin, woke up and shot video of the bear
while coaxing it to leave the house. Benjamin Snyder joked that the bear was a
"new pet." Ashley Snyder said the bear may have gotten into the home
through the back door, which she said was left unlocked with the screen open.
"I feel grateful that I have such a brave and intelligent man to keep us
safe by knowing exactly how to handle this ridiculous situation," Snyder
said.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Compared to singles, married people accumulate
about four times more savings and assets. Those who divorced had assets 77
percent lower than singles.
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Due to jobs, kids, TV, the Internet, hobbies,
and home and family responsibilities, the average married couple spends just
four minutes a day alone together.
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The average married couple has sex 58 times
per year, or slightly more than once a week.
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Women who report a fair division of housework
were happier in their marriages than women who thought their husbands didn't do
their fair share. Wives also spent more quality time with their husbands when
they thought the housework was divided fairly.
***
Marrying younger than age 25 dramatically
raises the divorce risk. Also, the divorce risk is higher when the woman is
much older than the man, though the reverse isn't as a strong factor.
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The cost of an average wedding is $20,000. The
cost of an average divorce is $20,000.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
89- Pat Carroll,
Shrevport
La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
(88) Ann B Davis,
Schenectady
NY, American actress (Bob Cummings Show, Alice-Brady Bunch), (d. 2014)
(81) James Beard,
US,
culinary expert/author (Delights & Prejudices)
(77) Arthur
Leonard Schawlow,
Mount
Vernon, ny, American physicist, shared the 1981 Nobel Prize in Physics for his
pioneering work with lasers (d. 1999)
(75) John
Batterson Stetson,
American
hat manufacturer (d. 1906)
73- Michael Palin,
Sheffield,
Yorkshire, English comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
(70) Charles Bender,
only
American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame (d.1954)
(64) Karl Marx,
Prussia,
German philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) (d. 1883)
(57) Nellie Bly, [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman],
American
journalist and writer (d. 1922)
(55) Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh],
Itawamba
County, Mississippi, (American country singer (Stand by your Man)(d. 1998)
(42) Søren Kierkegaard,
Danish
philosopher (d. 1855)
33- Henry Cavill,
English
actor
28- Adele [Adele Laurie Blue Adkins],
London,
English singer (Rolling in the Deep, Someone Like You)
27- Chris Brown,
Tappahannock,
VA, American R&B singer
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Historical
Obits Today
@57-1969 Ben Alexander,
actor
(Frank Smith-Dragnet), natural causes
@51-1821 French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte (1799-1815),
dies
in exile on the island of Saint Helen, cancer or arsenic poison
@27-1945 Elsie Mitchell
[and
five Sunday school students] become the only people to die due to world war two
on the main land of the United States when they are killed by a Japanese fire
balloon that landed in the forest of Gearhart Mountain, near Bly, Southern
Oregon
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Soak the paper in 50% isopropyl alcohol.
Then, the alcohol burns and the paper does not.
Alcohol molecules do not bond as tightly, so alcohol burns at a lower
temperature than does the paper. You can add NaCl (sodium chloride or common
table salt) so it will burn with a yellow flame, and make the flame more
visible.
Kids: If you try this, have a parent or guardian to help!
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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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