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10.10.16 Week: 41 \ Day: 284
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 70° \
L 38° Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 3mph\Gusts: 14mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 81°[1996] Record Low: 20°[1973]
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Quote of the Day
It is during our darkest moments
that we must focus to see the light.
~Aristotle Onassis
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Observances Today
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International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction
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International Stage Mangement Day Link
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National Handbag Day
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National Kick Butt Day Link
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National Online Banking Day Link
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Native American Day
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Naval Academy Day
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Squid & Cuttlefish Day Link
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Tuxedo Day
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World Day Against The Death Penalty Link
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World Homeless Day Link
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World Mental Health Day
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World Porridge Day Link
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Observances This Week
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1-10
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
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3-9
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Financial Planning Week
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3-9
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National Health Care Food Service Week Link
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3-9
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No Salt Week
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3-9
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Spinning & Weaving Week Link
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4-9
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World Dairy Expo
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4-10
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World Space Week Link
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7-9
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National Storytelling Weekend
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9-15
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Death Penalty Focus Week
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9-15
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Drink Local Wine Week
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9-15
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Earth Science Week Link
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9-15
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Emergency Nurses Week
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9-15
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Fire Prevention Week Link
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9-15
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Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
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9-15
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National Chestnut Week
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9-15
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National Metric Week
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9-15
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Veterinary Technicians Week Link
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10-14
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National School Lunch Week
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10-17
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Take Your Medicine Americans Week
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10-16
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World Rainforest Week Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
1802 1st non-Indian settlement in Oklahoma
1846 Alexis de Tocqueville writes about
"Algerian problem"
1857 American Chess Association formed (NYC)
1868 Cuba revolts for independence against Spain
1886 1st dinner jacket (tuxedo) worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo
Park, NY
1889 Barnard College is founded in New York City after
Colubmia refuses to accept women
1911 Sun Yat-sen's revolutionaries overthrow
Manchus (Taiwan National Day)
1920 Phoenix Cardinals (then in Chicago) play 1st NFL game, a 0-0
tie
1933 1st synthetic detergent, "Dreft" by Procter
& Gamble, goes on sale
1954 Ho Chi Minh enters Hanoi after withdrawal
of French troops
1957 US President Eisenhower apologizes to the
finance minister of Ghana, Komla Agbeli Gbdemah, after he is refused service in
a restaurant in Dover, Delaware
1957 A fire at the Windscale nuclear plant in
Cumbria, UK becomes the world's first major nuclear accident
1965 The Supremes appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1965 "Vinland Map" is introduced by Yale University
as being the first known map of America, drawn about 1440 by Norse explorer
Lief Eriksson
1971 Fenholt
& Webber's musical "Jesus Christ Superstar" premieres in NYC
1973 US Vice President Spiro T Agnew pleads no contest to tax
evasion & resigns
1979 Panama assumes sovereignty over Canal Area (ie
Canal Zone)
1991 Greyhound Bus ends bankruptcy
1991 Ex-postal worker Joseph Harris kills 4 postal workers
1995 "Garden District" opens at Circle in the Sq
Theater NYC
2005 Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in
Germany conclude with the two parties agreeing to form a grand coalition with Angela
Merkel as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German
federal election
2008 Singapore becomes the first Asian country to
slip into a recession since the credit crisis began: growth has faltered as a
result of less demand for exports, a reduction in tourism, and the end of the
real-estate boom
2009 After closed borders for nearly two hundred
years, Armenia and Turkey sign protocols in Zurich to open their borders
2013 Alice Munro is awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize
for literature
2014 Malala
Yousafzai & Kailash Satyarthi win the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
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My Rambling Thoughts
So
Monday is a Federal Holiday…Columbus Day. While our congress has many bigger
fish to fry and seem to get little done, it is time to change the name of the
holiday. Sorry to all the Italians, but Columbus did not discover this place.
Documents show that it was probably Leif Erickson about 50 years before. And
Columbus found the island of Hispaniola, way south of us. And when you read the
accounts of what Columbus and his men did to the inhabitants of the New World
there is little to argue for his holiday. It was the indigenous people of this
land that welcomed new comers. They could have killed settlers as they arrived,
but they didn’t. They welcomed them, taught them about the new land, how to
grow different crops, and even fed them. Yet the immigrants killed in the
indigenous people as they spread across the land. We should stop honoring
Columbus and begin honoring those who were here when we arrived.
It’s
a cloudy day with the hope of some rain…but we always hope for rain.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Yes,
I've Had Lasix Surgery
These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common
attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words
or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the
odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Which
phrase from group B belongs with the words in group A?
Group A
Lonely
Patent
Canines
Freighter
Artwork
Group B
Local Election
News Event
Tax Return
Brainy Teaser
Play Date
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
How
many times has Jimmy Kimmel hosted the Emmys?
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…Harper’s Index…
+96 – Percentage change in US household debt in the six
years leading up to the financial crisis
-3 – In the six years after
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2 jokes for the day
Definition
Of A Fable
What
Is the definition of Fable?
A story told by a teenager arriving home after curfew.
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Behavior
Modification Re-enforcers
The
HMO account manager noticed that nearly every bill from a certain
pediatrician’s office included the line item “Behavior modification
re-enforcers”.
Alarm that the pediatrician was engaging in some unapproved, experimental
psychological treatment, she called the physician’s office to inquire,
“What on earth are behavior modification re-enforcers?”
“Lollipops,”
was the reply.
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-----------------
Pokemon Go -----------------*
The prime minister of Norway was caught on camera playing Pokemon Go in parliament
-- and the current speaker had previously been caught doing the same thing.
Prime Minister Erna Solberg was captured by a photographer playing the popular
augmented reality game on her smartphone during a debate in the country's
parliament. Solberg, leader of the Conservative Party, was seen playing during
remarks from Liberal Party leader Trine Skei Grande. The prime minister told
local news she didn't think Grande would mind, seeing as how she was caught on
video playing Pokemon Go during a parliamentary Storting committee hearing.
Grande confirmed as much with an aisle-crossing tweet in support of the prime
minister's game-playing habits. "She heard what I said, we ladies can do
two things at the same time you know," she tweeted with a winking emoji.
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How products got their name
7-Eleven
Founded
in 1927, the convenience stores were originally called "Tote'm."
Then, in 1946, the chain expanded its hours, staying open from 7 a.m. to 11
p.m.—and voila, 7-Eleven was born.
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
[92] Helen
Hayes, actress (Caesar & Cleopatra, Happy Birthday), born in Washington,
D.C. [d1993]
[91] Claude
Simon, Malagasy-French writer (Nobel Prize Literature 1985), born in
Tananarive, Madagascar (d. 2005)
[87] Giuseppe Verdi,
Italian opera composer (Rigoletto, La traviata), born in Busseto (d. 1901)
75- Peter
Coyote [Rachmil Pinchus Ben Mosha Cohon], American actor (ET, Raiders of the
Lost Ark), born in NYC, New York
70- Ben
Vereen, actor/dancer (Pippin, Roots, Webster), born in Miami, Florida
[68] Fridtjof Nansen,
Norwegian Arctic explorer and advocate for refugees (Nobel Prize 1922), born in
Store Frøen, Christiania (d. 1930)
62- David Lee Roth,
American rock singer (Van Halen), born in Bloomington Indiana
58- Tanya
Tucker, Seminole Tx, country singer/actress (Follow that Car)
47- Brett
Favre, NFL quarterback (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl XXXI), born in Gulfport,
Mississippi
43- Mario
Lopez, actor (A C Slater-Saved by the Bell), born in San Diego, California
42- Dale
Earnhardt Jr, American NASCAR Sprint Cup series driver
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Historical Obits Today
@96-1966 Charlotte
Cooper, English tennis champion and the 1st female
Olympic champion in 1900
@88-2013 Scott
Carpenter, American pilot and astronaut
@77-2012 Alex
Karras, American NFL player, kidney failure
@74-1913 Adolphus
Busch, American brewer (Anheuser-Busch), dropsy
@71-1872 William
H. Seward, United States Secretary of State, respiratory failure
@70-1985 Orson Welles,
American actor/director (Citizen Kane, War of the Worlds), heart attack
@68-1991 Redd
Foxx, comedian (Sanford & Sons), heart attack
@65-1985 Yul
Brynner, [Taidje Khan], actor (King & I), cancer
@52-2004 Christopher
Reeve, American actor (Superman), cardiac arrest
@47-1834 Thomas
Say, American naturalist and father of descriptive entomology, typhoid fever
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Brain Teasers Answers
"News
Event": it also contains number:
lONEly
paTENt
caNINEs
frEIGHTer
arTWOrk
newSEVENt
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Trivia Hive
Answers
2
Jimmy
Kimmel has been the host of the Emmys twice now; once in 2012 and again this
year. Kimmel promised to make the 2016 award show feel faster and shorter than
the past few years. Everyone without a DVR breathed a sigh of relief when
Kimmel held up his end of the bargain. We give him a 10 out 10 as an Emmys host
and can't wait to see who the committee picks for next year! Source: Deadline
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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