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10.18.16 Week: 42
\ Day: 292
October Averages:
63°\31°
86004 Today: H 68° \ L 45°
Average Sky Cover: 45%
Wind ave: 9mph\Gusts:
26mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 78°[1921]
Record Low: 10°[1971]
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Quote of the Day
A flower cannot blossom
without sunshine, and man cannot live without love.
~Max Muller
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Observances
Today
Hard Boiled Guy/Girl Day Link
National Chocolate Cupcake Day
National Pharmacy Technician Day Link
Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity Link
World Menopause Day
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Observances This
Week
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12-20
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Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
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16-22
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Freedom From Bullies Week
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16-22
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International Infection Prevention Week Link
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16-21
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Mediation Week Link
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16-22
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National Character Counts Week
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16-22
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National Business Women's Week Link
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16-22
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National Chemistry Week
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16-22
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National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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National Food Bank Week
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16-22
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National Forest Products Week
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16-22
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National Friends of Libraries Week
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16-22
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National Nuclear Science Week
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16-22
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National Pharmacy Week Link
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16-22
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National Save For Retirement Week Link
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16-22
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National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link
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16-22
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Pastoral Care Week Link
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16-22
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Teen Read Week Link
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17-23
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Asexuality Week
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17-21
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Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link
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17-24
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Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
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17-23
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Freedom of Speech Week Link
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17-21
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Medical Assistants Recognition Week Link
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17-21
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National Health Education Week Link
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17-21
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National School Bus Safety Week
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17-21
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YWCA Week Without Violence Link
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Today’s US
Historical Highlights
♦Today’s World Historical Highlights
♦
1009 The Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem
is destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the
Church's foundations down to bedrock
♦
1356 Basel earthquake, the most significant
historic seismological event north of the Alps, destroys Basel in Switzerland.
♦
1386 Opening of the University of Heidelberg
1648 1st labor organization
forms in North American colonies (Boston Shoemakers)
♦
1685 French King Louis XIV revokes Edict
of Nantes cancelling rights of French Protestants
1776 In a NY bar decorated
with bird tail, customer orders "cock tail"
♦
1855 Franz Liszt's "Prometheus," premieres
1878 Edison makes electricity
available for household use
1898 American flag raised in
Puerto Rico
♦ 1910 E. M. Forster publishes
novel "Howards End"
♦ 1922 British Broadcasting
Company (BBC) founded, later called British Broadcasting Corporation
♦
1929 Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law
1950 Connie Mack retires
as manager of Philadelphia Athletics after 50 years, longest serving manager in
MLB history
1954 Texas Instruments Inc.
announces the first transistor radio.
1961 "West Side
Story", the film adaptation of the
1957 Broadway musical, starring
Natalie Wood, is released (Best Picture 1962)
♦
1962 Dr Watson (US) & Drs Crick & Wilkins (Britain) win
Nobel Prize for Medicine for work in determining structure of DNA
1967 Walt Disney's
"Jungle Book" film is released
1968 Circus Circus opens in
Las Vegas
1968 US Olympic Committee
suspends Tommie Smith & John Carlos for giving "black power"
salute as a protest during victory ceremony
1969 Federal government bans
use of cyclamates artificial sweeteners
♦ 2007 After 8 years in exile, Benazir
Bhutto returns to Pakistan. The same night, suicide attackers blow
themselves up near Bhutto's convoy, killing over 100, including 20 police
officers. Bhutto escapes uninjured.
♦ 2013 Saudi Arabia becomes the
first country to turn down a seat on the UN Security Council in protest over
Syria
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My Rambling
Thoughts
Had my regular checkup at PCP. They said they would be taking a blood
sample, so I loaded up on water this morning before my 8:15 appointment. Turns
out it was just a blood sample…a finger stick..and all was good. Don’t return
until March.
A little windy today, but still a nice day. Deck and front sidewalk are
covered with long pine needles, but I won’t clean it up until this wind stops.
Gutters are also full. Deal with that later too.
Some guy on the TV machine made a good point today…When you go into a
haunted house with a friend you will feel much less scared if the person you
are with is very confident. He then went on to say this explains many Trump
supporters. Interesting.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What Words #36
Language brain teasers are those that involve the
English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Below are 3 pairs of words. Find the words that fit in the middle of
each pair of words to create two new words, one front-ended and one back-ended.
Example: EVER - ______ - HORN
Answer: EVER - GREEN - HORN
1. STEP - __________ - PROOF
2. FIRE - __________ - BOAT
3. PICK - __________ - KNIFE
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
When did Tom Brady’s NFL suspension end for his involvement in what is
widely known as Deflategate?
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…Harper’s Index…
3 ♦ Percentage of
people in sub-Saharan Africa who slept under mosquito nets in 2000
55 ♦ Who do today
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2 jokes for the
day
A wealthy ninety year old tycoon is meeting with is financial advisor.
The advisor is very excited and tells the old man. “I just found out about an
investment I can make for you which will double your money in just five years!”
“Five years? Are you kidding?” exclaims the old man. “At my age, I don’t even
buy green bananas!”
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One night, a wife found her husband standing over their baby's crib. Silently
she watched him. As he stood looking down at the sleeping infant, she saw on
his face a mixture of emotions: disbelief, doubt, delight, amazement,
enchantment, even skepticism.
Touched by this unusual display and the deep emotions it aroused, with eyes
glistening she slipped her arm around her husband. "A penny for your
thoughts," she said.
"It's amazing!" he replied. "I just can't see how anybody can
make a crib like that for only $67.50."
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Somewhat Useless
Information
There are 318,979,564,000 possible combinations of the first four moves
in Chess.
***
The most expensive Monopoly set ever created is worth $2 million. The
board is made of gold and the pieces are jewel-encrusted. Monopoly is the
best-selling board game in the world. It is produced in 26 different languages.
***
Scrabble inventor Alfred Mosher Butts originally named his game
"Criss Cross", and sold a few hundred sets under that name. Only
later did the name get changed to Scrabble.
***
Many re-publishes in the history of Milton Bradley's Life board game
have taken place since its creation in 1860. The years for these updates
include 1866, 1959, 1961, 1978, 1985, 1992, and 2005. As times have changed, so
has the game!
***
Dominoes were first played in the courts of Venice and Naples in Italy.
The tiles were originally constructed by gluing and pinning two sheets of ebony
on either side of the bone tile. This prevented cheating by being able to see
the pip value from the back of the tile in certain lights.
***
A board game that appeared very similar to checkers (called
"Draughts" in Great Britain} was discovered in the ruins of the
ancient city of Ur in modern day Iraq. This board game dates to about 3000 B.C.
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Usually
Mis-learned in School
"The British are coming!"
Most colonials, including Paul Revere, considered themselves British
citizens during the time of the Revolutionary War, so it wouldn't make any
sense if Paul Revere went around yelling, "the British are coming."
Instead, he most likely informed other colonials that the British
"regulars" (a designation for British soldiers), were on the move.
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Birthdays Today
“♦” indicates age at death
♦36ish Ann
Putnam, Jr., American accuser in the Salem Witch Trials (d. 1716)
1890 [Agathe]
Henriette [M de Beaufort], Dutch author (Rembrandt)
90- Chuck
Berry [Charles Andersen], guitarist and singer-songwriter (Roll over
Beethoven), born in St Louis, Missouri
♦86 Jesse
Helms, (Sen-D/R-North Carolina, 1973-2003) [d2008]
♦85 Leo
G. Carroll, English actor (Topper, Man From Uncle), born in Weedon (d. 1972)
♦80 Pierre Trudeau,
15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84), born in Montreal,
Quebec (d. 2000)
77- Mike
Ditka, NFL coach and tight-end (Bears, Cowboys, NFL
rookie year 1961), born in Carnegie, Pennsylvania
♦71 George
C. Scott, Wise, Virginia, American actor/director (Patton, Dr. Strangelove)
[d1999]
♦71] Peter Boyle,
American actor (Joe, Candidate, Everybody Loves Raymond), born in Norristown, Pa,
[d2006]
65- Pam
Dawber, actress (Mindy-Mork & Mindy, My Sister Sam), born in Detroit,
Michigan
60- Martina
Navratilova, Czech tennis star (Wimbledon 1989,79,82-87), born
in Prague, Czech Republic
56- Erin
Moran, American actress (Happy Days, Joanie Loves Chachi), born in Burbank,
California
56- Jean-Claude
Van Damme, Belgian actor (Kickboxer, No Retreat), born in
Brussels, Belgium
♦48 Laura
Nyro, singer/songwriter (Eli's Coming, Stoney End), born in The Bronx, New York
[d1997]
37- Ne-Yo
[Shaffer Chimere Smith, Jr], Camden, Arkansas, American pop and R&B singer
and songwriter
♦35 Inger
Stevens, actress (Katy-Farmer's Daughter), born in Stockholm, Sweden [d1970]
29- Zac
Efron, American actor (High School Musical, 17 Again), born in San Luis Obispo,
California,
♦24 Lee Harvey Oswald,
assassin (JFK), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1963)
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Historical Obits
Today
@97-1982 Bess
Truman, 1st lady (1945-53)
@84-2013 Tom
Foley, American politician (Rep-D, 1965-1995) and speaker of the house
(1989-95)
@84-1931 Thomas
Edison, American inventor and businessman (holding over
1000 patents)
@74-2000 Julie
London, American singer and actress, stroke
@51-1541 Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scotland,
palsy
@29-1676 Nathaniel
Bacon, rallied against Virginian government, killed
@26-1984 Jon-Erik Hexum, actor
(Bear), ‘a gun loaded with blanks’
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Brain Teasers
Answers
1. STEP - CHILD - PROOF
2. FIRE - HOUSE - BOAT
3. PICK - POCKET - KNIFE
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Trivia Hive Answers
October 3, 2016
"The NFL suspended Tom Brady on May 11, 2015 for his alleged
involvement in what what is infamously known as Deflategate. He was suspended
for the first four games of the 2016 regular season, and his suspension ended
at 12 a.m. on October 3, 2016. Source: ESPN
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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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