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5.19.16 Week: 20 \ Day: 140
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 58° \ L 38° Average Sky Cover: 65%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 16mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 81°[1920] Record Low: 20°[1971]
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Quote
of the Day
Excellence is not a skill, it is an
attitude. ~Ralph Marston
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Observances
Today
Hummus Day
May Ray Day
National Scooter Day
National Hepatitus Testing Day
National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Link
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Observances
This Week
15-21
EMS (Emergency Medical Services)
Week Link
National Dog Bite Prevention Week
National Heritage Breeds Week Link
National Medical Transcription Week Link
National New Friends, Old Friends Week
National Transportation Week
World Trade Week
16-22
American Craft Beer Week Link
International Coaching Week Link
National Bike to Work Week Link
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1643 Massachusetts
Bay, Plymouth, Connecticut & New Harbor form United Colonies of New England
1796 Game
protection law restricts encroachment on Indian hunting grounds
1848 1st
department store opens
1848 Mexico gives
Texas to US, ending the war
1856 Sen Charles
Sumner, Mass, spoke out against slavery
1884 Ringling
Brothers circus premieres
1885 1st mass
production of shoes (Jan Matzeliger in Lynn, Massachusetts)
1891 Rice
Institute, which became Rice University, is chartered
1898 Post Office
authorizes use of postcards
1906 Federated
Boys' Club (Boys' Club of America) organizes
1964 US diplomats
find at least 40 secret microphones in Moscow embassy
1967 US bombs
Hanoi
1992 US VP Dan Quayle
attacks Murphy Brown for being a single mother and as a poor example of family
values
2007 "Sicko"
a documentary on the US health care system, directed by Michael
Moore has its premiere at the Cannes Film festival.
2007 Coen brothers film
"No Country for Old Men", based on the Cormac McCarthy novel,
starring Tommy Lee Jones, Javier Bardem and Josh Brolin premieres at the Cannes
Film Festival (Best Picture 2008)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1536 Ann of Boleyn, 2nd
wife of English King Henry VIII is beheaded at the Tower of London on
charges of adultery, incest and treason
1568 English Queen Elizabeth
I arrests Mary, Queen of Scots
1635 France's
First Minister, Cardinal Richelieu declares war on Spain (Franco-Spanish War
1635–59)
1660 - An Act by the
British Parliament forbids the export of Irish wool
1934 Sherlock
Holmes crossword puzzle in "Sat Review of Lit" Males who solved
puzzle became members of Baker Street Irregulars
1982 Sophia Loren jailed
in Naples for tax evasion
1999 - A five-stone
lump of butter, estimated to have been buried in a bog over 300 years ago, is
discovered in the Poll na gCapaill bog near Barnaderg in Co. Galway by turf
cutters Tom Burke and Vincent Roche
2015 Historic
first handshake between Prince Charles and Sinn Féin leader Gerry
Adams at the National University of Ireland in Galway
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Good news from blood Dr. Draws are working and
can be cut down to once a week. Still not sure what is causing the problem.
Thus more blood tests. I told him I’d do them at the hospital and he said he
didn’t think they had the right test material for a FISH test which has
something to do with florescent lights and my blood. I decided to have his lab
do it….wrong choice. I have had blood drawn from my hand to get the RBC count
at least 5 times. One time, at the hospital the vein leaked and made a nice
bruise on my hand that stopped its use for a couple of weeks. So today, the
lady knows I’m not happy about my last visit. I tell her to do it in my hand,
very carefully. And tell her about the leaking issue. She jabs the vein, blood
is flowing nicely and then the vein ‘blew’…her word. We finished the blood
draw, I showed her how to put on the tape. Got home and after an hour took off
the tape to find a small bruise bubb;ePacked it in ice and seems to be OK. Tired
of being a pin cushion…with people who mess up.
Here in our little mountain town May has
historically been a ‘dry’ month as we await the monsoon in July. This is our 2nd
or 3rd day of nice rain. I ain’t complaining. Our forest needs the
moisture, I have an umbrella, and the rain comes and goes, then the sun, then
rain returns, then leaves. It is really nice.
Very close vote on our election yesterday. The
firefighters won big, but the education issue is ‘too close to call’ until
probably Friday. The saddest part of this is that our county had a 27% turnout,
while some counties had a sad 33-37% turnout. This is of registered voters…people
who have taken the time to get registered and yet they don’t vote. I don’t get
it. And it was possible to mail in the ballot. Guess we need more Civics classes
in schools. Democracy doesn’t work unless people are involved.
And now the Democrats are splintering. Have to
say I wish Bernie had been a lot more aggressive about the Nevada thing. Death
threats are not needed and the candidate needs to tell his followers that it
needs to stop.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Curtail Y
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and
manipulate words and letters.
Difficulty-1.65
When you curtail a word, you remove
the last letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the
two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Heavenly body
Answer: The words are Start and Star.
1. Local region of land -> Determine the number
2. Small -> A metallic element
3. Sarcasm -> A metallic element
4. Red gem -> Cause friction
5. Slick -> Foot covering
6. Prepared -> Understand something written
7. Analyse; learn -> House frame upright
8. Paralysis of a body part with uncontrolled tremors -> Friends
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…Harper’s
Index…
7-Percentage
of married US women who live in poverty
23-Of
unmarried US women who do
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeocreativePhoto
by @deannefitzmaurice: #Goats climb an
argan tree in#Morocco looking
for nuts.
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2
jokes for the day
Three animals were having a drink in a cafe, when the owner asked for the
money. "I'm not paying," said the duck. "I've only got one bill
and I'm not breaking it."
"I've spent my last buck," said the deer.
"Then the duck'll have to pay," said the skunk. "Getting here
cost me my last scent."
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Two older women were fussing about their
husbands over tea one day.
"I do wish my Leroy would stop biting his nails. That makes me terribly
nervous," the first one said.
"Oh, my Elmer used to do the same thing," the other woman commented.
"But I broke him of that habit real quick."
"What did you do?"
"I hid his teeth."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*----- This Is Bananas, B-A-N-A-N-A-S -----*
ALGECIRAS, Spain - Spanish National Police
discovered more than 300 pounds of cocaine hidden in boxes of plastic bananas
at the Port of Algeciras. The National Police shared video of the shipment
which contained large plastic bags filled with cocaine inside the green plastic
bananas. "During a check of a consignment in Port of Algeciras a pallet
marked with a red 'X' was discovered by agents," police said in a
statement. "It contained 19 boxes each holding 88 plastic bananas that
looked like the real thing. Inside the false bananas was a total of 376 pounds
of cocaine." The drugs contained in the bananas held an estimated value of
about $19 million.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Research suggests that assuming a "power
pose" makes people feel more powerful and actually changes testosterone
and cortisol levels in the body. Practicing "power poses" before an
important meeting for 2-3 minutes will help you feel more powerful.
***
Arms akimbo (a standing person whose extended
arms are out in a V pattern with the hands placed on the hips, thumbs backward)
is a powerful territorial display that is used to establish dominance or
indicate that there are "issues." Women tend to use arms akimbo less
often than men.
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The "hooding affect" is a powerful
territorial display among humans. Interlaced hands behind the head are
indicative of comfort and dominance. Usually the senior person at a meeting
will pose or "hood" this way.
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Fingertips planted and spread apart on a
surface are a significant territorial display of confidence and authority.
***
Hand-steepling may be the most powerful
high-confidence hand gesture. It involves touching the spread fingertips of
both hands in a gesture similar to praying hands, but the fingers are not
interlocked and the palms may not be touching. In the U.S., women tend to
steeple low (at the waist), while men tend to steeple at chest level.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
81- David
Hartman,
Pawtucket
RI, TV personality (Good Morning America)
(79) Ho
Chi Minh [Nguyễn Sinh Cung],
Nghệ An Province, French Indochina, Vietnamese communist
revolutionary and President of North Vietnam (1946-69) (d. 1969)
(78) Johns
Hopkins,
philanthropist,
founded Johns Hopkins University (d.1873)
San
Diego, swimmer (1st to swim English Channel both ways) (d. 1995)
(72) Pol
Pot,
Cambodian
dictator (d. 1998)
72-
Peter Mayhew,
London,
actor (Chewbacca)
London,
English rock guitarist, vocalist and composer (The Who-Tommy)
(69) Dame
Nellie Melba,
Australian
opera singer (d. 1931)
68- Grace
Jones,
Jamaican
singer/actress (Vamp, A View to a Kill)
Omaha,
African American human rights activist and Muslim minister (d. 1965)
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Historical
Obits Today
@84-2004 Tony
Randall,
actor
(Felix Unger in The Odd Couple)
@76-1946 Booth
Tarkington,
American
novelist (3 Pultizer Prizes)
@74-1994 Henry
Morgan,
TV
panalist (To Tell the Truth), cancer
@68-1971 Ogden
Nash,
poet/TV
panelist (Masquerade Party), Crohn's disease
@64-1994 Jacqueline
Kennedy Onassis,
American
1st lady (1961-63), cancer
@59-1864 Nathaniel
Hawthorne,
American
writer (The Scarlet Letter)
@46-1935 T.
E. Lawrence (of Arabia),
motorcycle
Accident
@25-35?-1536 Anne
Boleyn,
Queen
of England and wife of Henry VIII, beheaded
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. County -> Count
2. Tiny -> Tin
3. Irony -> Iron
4. Ruby -> Rub
5. Slippery -> Slipper
6. Ready -> Read
7. Study -> Stud
8. Palsy -> Pals
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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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