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5.28.16 Week: 21 \ Day: 149
May
Averages: 68°\34°
86004
Today: H 75° \ L 31° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind
ave: 6mph\Gusts: 20mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record
High: 86°[2000] Record Low: 23°[1916]
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Quote
of the Day
You are only given a little spark of
madness; You mustn’t lose it.
~Robin Williams
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Observances
Today
Ascension of Baha'u'Llah
Julia Pierpont Day
National Polka Day
Sierra Club Day Link
Slugs Return From Capistrano Day
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Observances
This Week
22-28
Hurricane Preparedness Week Link
23-29
Healthy and Safe Swimming Week Link
23-30
National Backyard Games Week
25-31
Week of Solidarity With The People
of Non-Self-Governing Territories
27-29
National Polka Weekend
Old-Time Player Piano Weekend
27-30
Mudbug Madness Days
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US Historical
Highlights for Today
1664 1st Baptist
Church organizes (Boston)
1830 US Congress
authorizes native Indian to be removed from all states to the western
prairie…Andrew Jackson, called "Sharp Knife" by the Indians, has long
fought the Indians of the southeast. He believes that the Indians and white
settlers will not be able to peacefully live together. His solution to this is
to renege on all of the previous treaties, which granted the Indians their
lands forever, and to move all Indians west of the Mississippi River. Jackson
makes this proposal to Congress during his First Congressional speech on
December 8, 1829. Congress makes the proposal into a law on this date.
1892 Sierra Club
forms by John Muir in SF, for conservation of nature
1923 Attorney
General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1928 Dodge
Brothers Inc & Chrysler Corp merged
1929 1st all color
talking picture "On With the Show" exhibited (NYC)
1937 Golden Gate
Bridge in SF opens to vehicular traffic
1953 Premier of
1st animated 3-D cartoon in Technicolor-"Melody"
1956 Eisenhower signs
farm bill allows government to store agricultural surplus
1959 Monkeys Able
& Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st
animals retrieved from a space mission
1961 Amnesty Intl
founded (Nobel Peace Prize 1977)
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1431 Joan of Arc is
accused of relapsing into heresy by donning male clothing again, providing
justification for her execution
1742 1st indoor
swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1889 Édouard and André
Michelin incorporate the Michelin tyre company
1952 The women of
Greece are given the right to vote.
1961 Last trip
(Paris to Bucharest) on Orient Express (after 78 years)
1972 Four
Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers and four civilians killed when a
bomb they were preparing exploded prematurely at a house in Belfast
1991 Ethiopian
rebels seize Addis Ababa
1999 In Milan,
Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece
"The Last Supper" is put back on display.
2000 - A plaque to
commemorate the first Irish meeting of the Orange Order is unveiled in Dublin -
without a single member of the hardline Protestant group in attendance. The
Dublin and Wicklow Lodge boycott the event on Dawson St in protest at its treatment
over a march in the city, also planned for this date
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My
Rambling Thoughts
From 2 days ago… Crazy world these days. I had
a meeting with the NARFE chapter President about the website. When I finished I
headed to Sam’s for my weekly saving shopping. I was stopped at a red light,
ready to turn to Sam’s when I heard some guy with a deep voice yelling angry
profanities nearby. I turned down the radio and looked around. There was a guy
standing at the bus stop waving a gun and shouting. I was only about 15 yards
away. I took my phone and called 911...even though it is illegal to use a phone
while driving. They said they already had officers on the way. My turn lane
started moving and I got the hell out of there. When I got to Sam’s my phone
had an alert that the guy had gotten on a bus, with his gun, and was now about
3 blocks from Sam’s. I parked and headed inside quickly. About 5 minutes later,
another alert that the cops had stopped the bus and taken the crazy guy without
incident.
I really wonder how all the Open Carry people
would have reacted to this situation. I also wonder how the legislators in our
state who made open carry very easy would have reacted. Thankfully, no one was injured.
No Open Carry person pulled their gun and shot the guy. This easily could have
turned bad and we have already had 2 deaths by cops in the last week.
Thankfully this did not end bad.
Now to work on the website.
Yesterday we had our weekly retirement group
lunch. All is well with all of us. Then I got to meet with an oldish friend
from my early years on the Rez. Linda and I met when she was at Red Lake and I
was at Shonto. I moved to Tuba, she came to NAU to get her masters. She met her
husband while in school. We have kept in touch electronically for decades. She
is now retired and she, her husband, and her 1st born came to visit
friends still in Flag. We had snacks at a local restaurant then moved to
Starbucks when the restaurant closed. The 2-1/2 hours sped by quite quickly as
we recalled our early days, and caught up on each other’s lives. They have four
grown children, five grandkids, and very active in the Catholic church. Great
to see them after all these years. They took off, spent the night at the Grand
Canyon, then dropped their son off in Las Vegas and headed back to Kansas.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Letter Juggle 6
Language brain teasers
are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and
manipulate words and letters.
Take the given words, and by moving
a single letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near
synonyms. For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip'
creating two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Burn - Bead
2. Rid - Tripe
3. Grove - Rout
4. Charm - Rush
5. Cream - Sweep
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…Harper’s
Index…
18-Rate
of inflation of Russian food prices the past year
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
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2
jokes for the day
My wife and I went to a "Dude Ranch"
while in Texas.
The cowboy preparing the horses asked if she wanted a Western or English
saddle, and she asked what the difference was. He told her one had a horn and
one didn't.
"Well," she replied, "the one without the horn is fine. I don't
expect we'll run into too much traffic."
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One week before her wedding, a mother pulls
aside her daughter (and bride-to-be). She says, "I will now give you the
advice that has been passed down from generation to generation, from woman to
woman."
The daughter listened attentively, curious as to what the advice would be.
The mom continued, "Cook a man a fish and you feed him for a day. But
teach a man to fish, and you get rid of him for the whole weekend."
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*- Escaped Inmate returns With SUV For Friends -*
There is minimum-security, and then there is why bother? Alaska State Troopers
said a man who escaped from a minimum-security facility returned three hours
later with an SUV to pick up some of his fellow inmates. Troopers said in a
dispatch that Joshua Yaska, 20, was seen riding a bicycle away from Fairbanks'
North Star Center correctional facility about 1:05 a.m. Investigators said
Yaska returned about 4:20 a.m. with an Isuzu SUV, which he used to transport an
undisclosed number of his fellow inmates away from the facility. The halfway
house holds up to 143 minimum-security inmates and staff are instructed not to
physically restrain the inmates from leaving the building. Yaska was being
housed at the North Star Center while awaiting trial for charges of misdemeanor
theft and making a false report. Yaska remained on the loose as of Monday.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
Sushi chefs have one of the most difficult
training of all professional chefs. They must know how to prepare raw seafood,
know which fish contain harmful parasites, and know how to eliminate parasites.
They must also know about biochemical changes that happen after seafood is
slaughtered.
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A sushi chef traditionally could work in a
restaurant only after training for 10 years. However, modern sushi chiefs can
start working after just 2 years of training.
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Sushi is commonly thought of as an aphrodisiac
because two common sushi fish, salmon and mackerel, are high in omega-3s, which
are fatty acids that aid in sex-hormone production. Additionally, tuna is a
source of selenium, which helps increase a male's sperm count.
***
Bluefin tuna populations have dropped more
than 96 percent, primarily due to increasing sushi demands. Most of the Bluefin
tuna fishing occurs off the coast of Japan, which has very few limits on tuna
fishing.
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The most expensive price ever for a
sushi-grade Bluefin tuna was $1.8 million for a 222-kilogram fish in Japan.
Over 80 percent of the world's declining tuna stock are eaten by the Japanese.
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Fugu is a famous type of sushi made from
puffer fish. Fugu is particularly difficult to prepare because the organs of
the puffer fish produce a lethal neurotoxin that is 1,200 times more toxic than
cyanide. Chefs must receive a special license to prepare fugu, and the emperor
of Japan is forbidden from even tasting it.
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Birthdays
Today
“( )” indicates age at death
85- Carroll
Baker,
Penn,
actress (Andy Warhol's Bad, Babydoll, Harlow)
82- Dionne
Quintuplets, secluded quintuplets,
born
Annette, Alive Cecile, Alive Emelie, D 1954 Marie, D 1970 Yvonne, Alive, First
known set of surviving quintuplets
78- Jerry
West,
NBA
superstar (LA Lakers, Olympic Gold 1960), born in Chelyan, West Virginia
(74) Beth Howland,
actress
(Vera - Alice, Company), born in Boston, Mass. (d. 2015)
72- Gladys
Knight,
singer,
leader of Pips (Last Train), born in Atlanta, Georgia
72- Rudy
Giuliani,
(Mayor-R/L),
born in NYC, New York
71- John
Fogerty,
Berkeley
California, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
(65) Jim Thorpe, versatile American athlete (Olympic
gold-1912), born in Prague, Oklahoma (d. 1953)
(64) T-Bone Walker,
American
blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done), born in Linden, Texas (d. 1975)
(59) Gary Stewart,
Latcher
County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single) (d.2003)
54- Brandon
Cruz,
actor
(Eddie-Courtship of Eddie's Father)
45- Marco
Rubio,
US
politician (Senate-R-Florida, 2011-), born in Miami, Florida
39- Elisabeth
Hasselbeck,
American
television panelist (The View/Fox News)
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Historical
Obits Today
@86-2014 Maya Angelou [Marguerite Johnson],
American
author ("I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"), poet and actress
(Nyo-Roots)
@84-1843 Noah Webster,
American
lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary)
@77-1972 Edward VIII,
King
of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Empire and Emperor of
India (Jan 20th, 1936 until his abdication on Dec 11th, 1936)
@66-1996 Sidney Greenbaum,
grammarian
@49-1998 Phil Hartman,
Canadian
actor and comedian, murdered by his wife in his sleep
@45-1971 Audie Murphy,
American
actor (Whispering Smiths), plane crash
@42-2010 Gary Coleman,
American
actor, TBI after fall
@29-1849 Anne Brontë,
English
novelist (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall), TB
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1. Bun - Bread
2. Ride - Trip
3. Groove - Rut
4. Harm - Crush
5. Scream - Weep
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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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