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October
29, 2015 Week:
44 \ Day: 302
October Averages:
62°\32°
86004 Today: H 67° \ L 31° Average
Sky Cover: 70%
Wind ave: 6mph\Gusts:
14mph
Ave. High: 58° Record High: 72°[1950]
Ave. Low: 27° Record Low: 9°[1971]
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Observances
Today:
Internet Day Link
National Cat Day Link
World Psoriasis Day Link
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Republic
Day (Turkey-1923)
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Observances
This Week:
24-30
Disarmament
Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
World Origami Days
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link
National Massage Therapy Week Link
National Respiratory Care Week Link
Pastoral Care Week Link
Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link
International Magic Week:
25-31
Kids
Care Week
Red Ribbon Week Link
International Dyslexia Association Reading Week
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1712 - Settlers in Portsmouth,
New Hampshire hold a conference to advise belligerent Indians that "Queen
Anne's War" is over, and the fighting should stop. It would take almost 9
months before a local treaty would be signed.
1792 - Mount Hood (Oregon) is named after the British
naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E. Broughton who spotted the
mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1811 - 1st Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh
for New Orleans
1882 - The Tucson Weekly
Citizen reported that brick is beginning to replace adobe as a building
construction material.
1942 - Alaska highway completed
1945 - First ball point pen goes on sale, 57 years
after it is patented
1966 - National Organization of Women founded
1974 - Law bans discrimination of sex or marital
status in credit application
1988 - 2,000 US anti-abortion protesters arrested
for blocking clinics
1994 - National Museum of American Indian opens
(NYC)
1998 - Space Shuttle Discovery blasts off on STS-95
with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest person to go into
space.
2012 - Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey
resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock
exchange to close
2012 - Publishing companies Penguin and Random
House merge to form the world's largest publisher
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
529 BC - The international day of Cyrus the Great,
king of Persia, who declared the first charter of human rights in the world
also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
1390 - First trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1618 - English adventurer, writer, and courtier Sir Walter
Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly conspiring against James I of England.
1863 - International Committee of Red Cross forms
as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1954 - Colonel Nasser disbands Muslim Brotherhood
1957 - Hand grenade explodes in Israel's Knesset
(Parliament)
1958
- Boris Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for
literature
1964 - The United Republic of Tanganyika &
Zanzibar renamed The United Republic of Tanzania
1970 - The Electoral Reform Society calls for the
introduction of Proportional Representation (PR) in elections in Northern
Ireland
1983 - 550,000 Dutch demonstrate against cruise
missile
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice Wed, cooling off, but still really nice.
The viral video of the cop and the girl in the classroom has
raised many questions. Let me be clear that I have had to deal with disruptive
teenagers as a teacher and as an administrator. The acting out usually has
little to do with the setting or the teacher. The student usually has something
else going on in his/her life that simply manifests itself in the
classroom. Anyway, while I agree that
the student must be removed from the situation—even if that means having all
the other students leave the classroom—the use of the violence in the video is
never acceptable. An issue that hasn’t been discussed is the use of School
Resource Officers. These are real cops that have an MOU (Memorandum of
Understanding) between the school, the officer, and the police department. It
sets down his/her duties at the school, what can and cannot be done, where the
salary comes from, etc. These MOU’s have been very popular since Columbine. The
conservatives and the NRA have been pushing for armed security guards in the
schools to prevent school shootings. These SRO’s are what they are talking
about. It takes a special person to be a teacher. Within that group, it takes a
special person to be a Middle School or High School teacher. It also takes a
special person to be a police officer. Within that group, a small number make
good SRO’s. An SRO, like a teacher, has to have a good understanding of the psychology
of the age group he/she is working with. Most officers may have some community college
classes, or even an AA degree in Police Science. Very few have a BS or MA. As
positions are cut at police departments, many police administrators see the SRO
as a way of keeping cops on the payroll. As schools with very tight budgets for
security, the SRO is also a good way to get security. A good SRO is worth his/her
weight in gold. As we see, a bad SRO…or an SRO having a bad day…costs everyone
a lot more. The officer should have lost his job…even if he was just having a
bad day.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
is represented here?
Spring - Hola
Summer - Bonjour
Fall - Hello
Winter - Aloha
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
A tortoise named Adwaita lived to 255 years
old. To put it into perspective, he was born before the United States of
America existed and his death was announced on CNN (1750-2006).
It 'snows' metal on Venus.
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…Crazy
Law…
California
Looking to put on a “frog-jumping contest”? Of
course you are. But if any of the frogs die, you cannot eat them. So much for
fresh frog legs.
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…Harper’s
Index…
22—percentage
of black profession US women who aspire to ‘a position with a prestigious title’
8—percentage
of white professional women who do
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoSaher and Hanadi have a family with three children,
who are named Omar, Ali and Moaz. Because of war they had to flee from their
home back in Syria. Their desired destination is Germany as it presents a safe
place for children.
They wanted to travel by plane, however the authorities forbade this option.
Saher worked as an engineer for Al Furat Petroleum Company and Hanadi was an
university professor of Chemistry. Along with them travel also their cousin,
who is a dentist by profession, and his wife, a pharmacist. The war has become
especially unbearable during the last year as a result of horrible living
conditions and lack of safety.
Before they were forced to abandon their home, they lived a normal and happy
life in town Deir Ezzor. In addition they told us that only 10% of the migrants
in their group were Syrian, whom they could recognize by facial features and
language. They said others are mostly from Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and
other countries. Their biggest wish is for their children to have a safe and
normal life.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The “french” in french fries actually describes the way the spuds
are sliced, not their country of origin.
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2
jokes for the day
More Planets - SciFi Jokes
In today's news...
32 more planets were found outside of our
solar system bringing the total to 400. And...not a sign of intelligent life,
not even here.
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A Kind Priest - Kid
Jokes
A priest is walking down the street one day
when he notices a very small boy trying to press a doorbell on a house across
the street.
However, the boy is very small and the doorbell is too high for him to reach.
After watching the boy's efforts for some time, the priest moves closer to the
boy's position.
He steps smartly across the street, walks up behind the little fellow and,
placing his hand kindly on the child's shoulder leans over and gives the
doorbell a sold ring.
Crouching down to the child's level, the priest smiles benevolently and asks,
"And now what, my little man?"
To which the boy replies, "Now we run!"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
MENLO
PARK, CA - A California startup analyzing food on a molecular level
announced some hard news about one of the most beloved foods in the United
States: 2 percent of hot dogs contain human DNA. Clear Food, the consumer guide
wing of Menlo Park startup Clear Labs, said it analyzed 345 hot dogs and
sausages from 75 brands sold at 10 different retailers and discovered 14.4
percent of the products included ingredients that were not listed on the label.
The startup said several of the tested brands had "hygienic" issues.
"Hygienic issues occur when some sort of non-harmful contaminant is introduced
to the hot dog, in most cases, human DNA," the company said. The report
said 2 percent of the samples -- including 2/3 of the vegetarian hot dogs in
the sample -- tested positive for human DNA. Clear Food said several products
contained meats not listed on the labels, and 4 of the 21 vegetarian products
sampled were found to contain traces of meat. The company said the "Top 10
Major Hot Dog Brands" that were found to contain the least contaminants
were Butterball, McCormick, Eckrich, Hebrew National, Simply Balanced, Aidells,
Jennie-O, Boar's Head, Oscar Mayer and O Organics. Oscar Mayer Premium Jumbo
Beef Franks were given Clear Food's top honors as the "Best Hot Dog"
in the test results.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
In
The Da Vinci Code and other Dan Brown novels, characters are compelled to
unravel mysteries at a frenetic pace. The same thing happened to Brown as a
child. On Christmas and his birthdays, his parents hid his gifts, requiring him
to solve puzzles and riddles to find the presents.
Dr. Seuss' editor, Bennett Cerf, bet him $50 that he could not write a book
with a vocabulary of only 50 words. Seuss won by penning Green Eggs and Ham.
Jack Canfield, who co-authored Chicken Soup for the Soul with Mark Victor
Hansen, said their manuscript was rejected by about 140 publishers, whose
criticism included the assertion "It's a stupid title." That stupid
title has appeared on more than 112 million books, including nearly 200 spinoffs.
The first printing of Barack Obama's book Dreams From My Father in 1995 sold
about 10,000 copies. At the time, Obama had not yet been elected a state
senator. Now there are more than three million copies in print. Signed first
editions have carried an asking price of up to $13,500.
The Oxford English Dictionary credits the Kansas City Times & Star with the
first use of the term "best sellers" - with no hypen - in 1889. Since
then, various book sales rankings have appeared - from The New York Times to
Publishers Weekly to Amazon.
Richard Wright's 1940 novel Native Son was the first work by an
African-American to be a Book of the Month Club selection, guaranteeing the
novel a wide audience. But before agreeing to the sponsorship, the Book of the
Month Club asked Wright to tone down the book's sexual content - and he agreed.
Despite Wright's notoriety, he often struggled financially.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
(91) - Carl Djerassi,
Austrian-born American chemist, father of the contraceptive pill (2015)
(85) - Edmund Halley,
astronomer (Halley's Comet) (d.1742)
77 - Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf,
President of Liberia
70 - Melba Moore,
[Beatrice], singer/actress (Ellis Island)
68 - Richard
Dreyfuss, American actor (Jaws, Nuts, Mr Holland's Opus)
67 - Kate Jackson,
Birmingham Ala, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels)
(65) - Charles Ebbets,
(namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn) (d.1925)
(59) - Fanny Brice,
singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby Snooks) (1951)
58 - Dan
Castellaneta, American voice actor, voice of Homer Simpson
(54) - James Boswell,
Scotland, Samuel Johnson's biographer (d.1795)
(47) - [Paul] Joseph Goebbels,
Nazi Minister of Information\Propaganda (1945)
44 - Winona Ryder,
[Horowitz], Mn, actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand)
(28) - Johnny Lewis,
actor (Sons of Anarchy) (d. 2012)
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Historical
Obits Today
Louis B Mayer, MGM producer, leukemia-1957@73
Vaughn Meader, American comedian (JFK satire),
heart disease-2004@68
Walter Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian,
beheaded for treason-1618@66
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Brain
Teasers Answers
Season's Greetings.
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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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