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11.6.16 Week: 45 \ Day: 311
November Averages: 51°\22°
86004 Today: H 58° \
L 34° Average Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1934] Record Low: 7°[1935]
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Quote of the Day
Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.
~Aristotle
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Observances Today
Daylight
Savings Time Ends for many
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation
of the Environment in War and Armed
Conflict
National Nachos Day Link
Zero-Tasking Day
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Observances This Week
1-7
- National Fig Week
- National Patient Accessibility Week
- World Communication Week
4-6
- National Farm Toy Show Days
- Sherlock Holmes Weekend
6-12
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
1903 USA recognizes independence of Panama
1913 Mahatma
Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners' march in South Africa
1918 WW
I: On the Western Front, Germany is now retreating as French and American
troops cross the Meuse and move to take Sedan
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV
station, begins service
1943 Stalin says:
"The issue of German fascism is lost"
1945 House Committee on Un-American Activities
begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes
place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down
1947 NBC's "Meet the Press" debuts - US's
longest running TV show
1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th
birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball - actually Canadian)
1966 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1979 Ayatollah
Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy
Young Award
1991 Russian President Boris
Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1995 Israel
buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with
Palestinians
1996 "The English Patient" based on the
novel by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph
Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott Thomas premieres in Los Angeles
(Best Picture 1997)
2005 The
military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from
Yangon to Pyinmana.
2005 "Harry Potter and the Goblet
of Fire", the 4th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling, premieres
in London. Goes on to become most successful film of the year, earning almost
US$ 900 million.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Cloudy,
rainy, windy, cool, must be fall. I have to say it is strange to have rain in
November…we usually have snow at this time of year.
Did
laundry this morning and got out the winter clothes and stored the summer
stuff. Not my favorite task, but decided it was time.
About
3 months ago a friend/colleague ask me to help him with a website for the
Flagstaff Chapter of NARFE…a national organization for retired Federal
Employees. The Flagstaff Chapter was faltering and he was determined to get it
up and running. I helped him with updating the bylaws also. The website was
hardly a website, it was just information about the chapter on the NAEFE
server. My colleague called about a week ago and said that the National had
voted to close our Chapter for lack of interest. My opinion is was more lack of
supporting the Chapter by increasing membership. Then earlier last week I got a
letter from the State President telling me ‘I had been reassigned to the Payson
Chapter after the Flag Chapter closed. The Payson Chapter is 90 miles away and
I don’t see me heading down there anytime soon for a meeting. Then yesterday I
got a letter from the Payson President. It was a blah, blah, blah welcome to
the chapter letter. I ended with ‘our chapter meets on the fourth Tuesday of
each month; except for November and December when we adjust the meeting due to
holidays. Hope to see you at our next meeting.’ Really? The letter never states
when they meet in November and December. He did give me a phone number and
address, but no email address. I checked their NARFE website and there is
nothing added since 2013. I emailed the webmaster for the site, but no answer
yet. Guess retired Federal employees don’t stay up with technology.
I
also got a phone call from Focus Travel. They are planning a great trip to Germany
next year to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther. I am
busy adding that to the website. It will get done tomorrow. Strange how it is
easy to do, but when you don’t work on it for a couple of months, it suddenly
looks like a foreign language to update. It will come back or I will relearn it
tomorrow.
As
I have said many times, can’t wait for this election to be over. Yesterday I
got a call from my longtime friend Vice President Joe Biden. He was going on
and on about how important it was for me, his friend, to vote. I tried to interrupt
him, but it didn’t work and when he finished I asked him what he was going to
do after Jan 20. He just hung up. Then today my childhood friend Susan Sarandon
had a friend call to tell me to hang on and listen to Susan talk. She was
telling me to vote FOR the marijuana proposition in AZ, a state she doesn’t
live in. She too hung up when I asked her why she wasn’t supporting Hillary.
Life to too short for these crazy calls. And the best call so far, some lady
called and asked if I had already voted. I said yes, even though I hadn’t. Then
she asked me if I voted for her candidate by name. I reminded her, in not so
quiet terms, that in America it is a secret ballot and no one, especially a
stranger, should ask any American who they voted for or against. She said Thank
you and hung up.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Word
Combinations #2
Language
brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think
about and manipulate words and letters.
In
each group below, I have listed four (4) unrelated words. Your job is to try
and find a word that can either precede or follow each word in each group.
Example:
picture, inner, top, test
Answer: picture TUBE, inner TUBE, TUBE top, test TUBE.
1. sky, point, hat, knee
2. street, fight, pedal, off
3. shoe, French, powder, rims
4. molding, roast, triple, jewels
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
On
which island did Napoleon live out his final days?
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…Harper’s Index…
93 – Percentage of young Iraqis who regard the US as
their enemy
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2 jokes for the day
After
years of wondering why he didn't look like his younger sister or brother, a
young man finally got up the nerve to ask his mother if he was adopted.
"Yes, you were son," his mother said as she started to cry softly.
"But it didn't work out and they brought you back."
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A
man being tried for murder happens to know one of the jurors. Before jury
deliberation, the man finds a way to contact his friend and emphatically
demands that he vote for life in prison with the possibility of parole. The
friend agrees.
The jury deliberates for a week and returns a verdict of guilty with life
imprisonment. The convicted man phones his friend and asks why it took so long
for the verdict.
His friend says, "It took me a long time to convince the other jurors for
life imprisonment."
"Why is that?"
"Because they wanted to acquit you!"
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-------------
A Little Off The Top -------------*
A
hair dresser was jailed after pleading guilty to practicing medicine without a
license and causing a man to lose his manhood. 49-year-old Nery Carvajal
Gonzalez, who worked as a hairdresser in Miami, Florida, was sentenced to 40
months in prison, in a plea deal with prosecutors in which she agreed to
testify against Mark Schreiber, who also worked as an unlicensed doctor.
Gonzalez offered her customers body enhancement procedures. One man took her up
on the offer, as her prices were low. The man told police that Gonzalez gave
him butt injections and he was very happy with the results. He later returned
to her for a penis enlargement. However, she botched the procedure. She then
recommended that the victim should go to Schreiber, 61, who police said lost
his license 10 years ago over botched plastic surgeries. Schreiber told the man
that he will be removing the filler that was injected. However, he made things
much worse after he mutilated the man's private parts, leaving it just 1 inch
long. The victim is no longer able to have sex due to the botched procedure.
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
inventor of baseball is also credited with firing the first Union shot of Civil
war.
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The
baseball tradition of spring training came about because in 1885 the Chicago
White Stockings went to Hot Springs in Arkansas to prepare for the new season.
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In
July 1934, Babe Ruth paid a fan $20 dollars for the return of the baseball he
hit for his 700th career home run.
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In
an effort to sell more licensed apparel, minor-league baseball teams were
changing their names so often that the sport's governing body now limits
franchises to team name changes every three years.
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The
first perfect nine innings baseball game was achieved by John Lee Richmond on
June 12, 1880.
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Baseball
ended one of its oldest traditions in 1997 when inter league play begin for the
first time. This means that teams from the American league can play National
league teams during the regular season. The first inter league game was played
on June 12, 1997.
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Birthdays Today
indicates age at death
87- Jonathan Harris, actor
(Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space) [d2002]
85- Ray Conniff, Attleboro
Mass, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers) [d2002]
83- Mike Nichols [Peschowsky],
German-born American director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues), born in Berlin, (d.
2014)
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78- James Naismith, Canadian physical
educator and inventor (basketball, football helmet), born in Almonte, Ontario
(d. 1939)
77- John Philip Sousa, march king (Stars
& Stripes Forever), born in Washington, D.C. [d1932]
70- Sally
Field, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun), born in Pasadena, California
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67- Glenn Frey, rock vocalist
(Eagles-Take it Easy), born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2016)
62- Alois Senefelder,
inventor (lithography) [d1834]
61- Maria
Shriver, newscaster (Sunday Today) and ex-wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger, born
in Chicago, Illinois
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55- James Jones, novelist
(From Here to Eternity), born in Robinson Illinois (d. 1977)
51- Charles Dow, American
journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St Journal)
(d. 1902)
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46- Ethan
Hawke, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers), born in Austin, Texas
♦♦♦
28- Emma
Stone, American actress (Superbad, The Amazing
Spider-Man), born in Scottsdale, Arizona
27- Pat Tillman, American
football player\US Army (d. 2004)
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Historical Obits Today
55-1901 Kate
Greenaway, English children book illustrator, breast cancer
@70-1991 Gene
Tierney, American actress (Laura, Whirlpool), emphysema
@53-1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer of the
late-Romantic period (1812 Overture, Swan Lake), suspected cholera
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Brain Teasers Answers
1.
sky HIGH, HIGH point, HIGH hat, knee HIGH
2. BACK street, fight BACK, BACK pedal, BACK off
3. shoe HORN, French HORN, powder HORN, HORN rims
4. CROWN molding, CROWN roast, triple CROWN, CROWN jewels
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Saint
Helena
Although
he was imprisoned on Elba earlier in his life, Napoleon died on Saint Helena in
1821 after his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo. The cause of death was
officially given as stomach cancer, though it was rumored that he was poisoned.
He was 51 years old. Source: The Telegraph, History.com, The Napoleonic Society
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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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