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7.20.16 Week: 29 \ Day: 202
July Averages: 81°\51°
86004 Today: H 72°
\ L 55° Average Sky Cover: 90%
Wind ave: 2mph\Gusts:
18mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 91°[1939] Record Low: 42°[1940]
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Quote of the Day
Sometimes
life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. ~Steve Jobs
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Observances Today
International
Cake Day Link
Moon Day (Man's First Lunar
Landing)
Space Exploration Day Link
National Lollipop Day Link
Take Your Poet To Work Week
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Observances This Week
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
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Captive
Nations Week: 17-23
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 17-23 Link
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Restless
Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1868 1st
use of tax stamps on cigarettes
1878 1st
telephone introduced in Hawaii
1881 Sioux
Indian Chief Sitting Bull, surrenders to US federal troops
1894 2000
fed troops recalled from Chicago, having ended Pullman strike
1921 Congresswoman
Alice Mary Robertson becomes the first woman to preside over the US House of
Representatives
1924 Teheran,
Persia comes under martial law after the American vice consul, Robert Imbrie,
is killed by a religious mob enraged by rumors he had poisoned a fountain and
killed several people.
1926 A
convention of the Methodist Church votes to allow women to become priests.
1932 In
Washington, D.C., police fire tear gas on World War I veteran’s part of the
Bonus Expeditionary Force who attempt to march to the White House.
1964 1st
surfin' record to go #1-Jan & Dean's "Surf City"
1968 Iron
Butterfly's "In-a-gadda-da-vida" becomes 1st heavy metal song to hit
charts, it comes in at #117
1969 1st
Moon Landing: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin from Apollo 11, 530
million watch live global broadcast
1977 The
Central Intelligence Agency releases documents under the Freedom of Information
Act revealing it had engaged in mind control experiments.
1984 Vanessa
Williams is asked to resign as Miss America
2000 The
leaders of Salt Lake City's bid to win the 2002 Winter Olympics are indicted by
a federal grand jury for bribery, fraud, and racketeering
2015 Hacker
group the Impact Team announce they have hacked married dating site Ashley
Madison
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1304 Wars
of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England
takes the last rebel stronghold of the war.
1928 The
government of Hungary issues a decree ordering Gypsies to end their nomadic
ways, settle permanently in one place, and subject themselves to the same laws
and taxes as other Hungarians.
1944 Fifty
are hurt in rioting in front of the presidential palace in Mexico City.
1944 Adolf
Hitler survives an assassination attempt led by German army officer Claus
Von Stauffenberg
1949 Israel's
19 month war of independence ends
1953 The
United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent
agency.
1989 Burma
government puts author Aung San Suu Kyi under house arrest
1990 Justice
William J. Brennan Jr. resigns from the Supreme Court after 36 years
2000 Terrorist
Carlos the Jackal sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for
allegedly torturing him.
2014 Patrick
Sawyer arrives in city of Lagos in Nigeria and collapses; he dies of Ebola five
days later
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My Rambling Thoughts
Getting things
together for my upcoming trip. Called to get some scripts yesterday. Got a text
this morning they were ready, but one was not listed. Called Pharmacy…headquarters
says all is done. 5 minutes later I get a text that one is not filled. Call the
Pharmacy and talk to the local store. They say they will call BC but that BC
will probably say no. So I call BC…after going through 5 people I am told the
pharmacy has to call for the override. In all my previous trips I have called
and gotten it straightened out. No more. About an hour later I get the text
that everything is ready. Craziness.
Met with my PCP
to get my machine for sleep apnea. They
fax it over to the company and low and behold, that company has not contract
with Medicare for the machine. Really?!? So another provider calls me and
claims not to have my Medicare #. Really?!? Again? Bottom line, I get the
machine after my trip. No big deal.
I have always
believed that you keep your friends close and your adversaries closer. So I
watched the RNC opening night. I get it now. I have been wondering how so many
can be for Trump…and why, not matter what he says, it’s OK. By putting a lot of
non-political types on the speaker list, and then listening to them, the RNC is
trying to appeal to common Americans…especially through fear of that boogie man
standing behind every tree…planning to destroy the American way of life. The
Trump demographic is very white and many only have a high school diploma. That
demographic eats up this stuff because they really don’t know how to see
through it or how to search out the real facts. And now with the speech by his
wife, that dirty old media is making up stuff, like showing the exact words
from two different speeches by two different women. The Trump campaign answer…well
these are all common words. I had to
deal with ‘plagiarism’ in a couple of the classes I taught at the University
level. It is not a pleasant situation from anyone’s side.
On a brighter
note: The monsoon has returned and it is fantastic. Temps dropped 10° in about
15 minutes as the rain pounded down. So wonderful!
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the
end of post)
A Common Theme
Language brain teasers are those that involve the English
language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
Your task here
is to change one letter in each of the following words, in order to find three
(3) words with a common theme.
STEER
CRASS
PESTER
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
Which berry is
there a shortage of this summer?
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…Harper’s Index…
49,500 Number of Chinese officials punished last year
for violating austerity rules
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…Instagram Photo of the Day…
Barcelona calling!
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2 jokes for the day
Revive Me
Not
A man said to his
doctor, "Doc, please don't ever give me artificial respiration!"
"Why not?" the Doctor asked.
The man replied, "If you can't give me the real thing, FORGET IT!"
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Waiting For
Years
We had built
our dream house some years ago, and furnished it with quality pieces as we
could afford them. Now the delivery truck carrying the last purchase, a new
bedroom suite, was pulling into the driveway.
"Finally!" I exclaimed, flinging open the front door as the driver
walked up to the house. "I've been waiting twelve years for this!"
"Don't blame me, lady," he said. "I just got the order this
morning."
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Somewhat Useless Information
Several ancient
cultures viewed the apple as a feminine symbol and found a resemblance between
the two halves of a vertically cut apple to the female genital system.
Alternatively, an apple cut horizontally resembled a pentagram, which was
considered key in revealing knowledge of good and evil.
Ancient
Egyptian priests would eat figs at the moment of their consecration ceremonies.
The Indians consecrated the fig tree to Vishnu, and the fig free sheltered
Romulus and Remus (the traditional founders of Rome) at their birth. The fig is
also a fertility symbol and the Arab association with male genitals is so
strong that the original word "fig" is considered improper.
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Birthdays Today
“[ ]” indicates
age at death
[88] Edmund Hillary,
Explorer and Mountaineer
(1st to scale Mt Everest with Tenzing Norgay), born in Auckland, New Zealand
(d. 2008)
[61] Gregor Mendel,
Austrian monk and
geneticist (discoverer of laws of heredity), born in Heinzendorf, Austria (d.
1884)
59- Donna
Dixon,
Virginia, actress and
wife of actor Dan Aykroyd (Couch Trip, Bossom Buddies)
45- Sandra
Oh,
Korean Canadian actress
(Grey's Anatomy), born in Nepean,Ontario
[43] Natalie
Wood, [Natasha Gurdin],
SF, (Gypsy, Rebel
Without a Cause) [d1981]
[32] Alexander the Great,
Macedonian king and
military leader, born in Pella, Macedonia (modern Greece) (d. 323 BC)
28- Julianne
Hough,
American ballroom dancer
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Historical Obits Today
@65-2007 Tammy
Faye Messner (Bakker),
American televangelist,
cancer
@63-1937 Guglielmo
Marconi,
Italian engineer/marquis
(radio, Nobel 1909), heart attack
@55-1923 Pancho Villa, [Doroteo Arango],
Mexican rebel, murdered
@52-1984 Jim
[James] Fixx,
jogger/writer (Jim Fixx
on Running), heart attack
@48-1993 Vince
Foster,
American lawyer and
Deputy White House Counsel, suicide
@32-1973 Bruce
Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam],
actor (Enter the
Dragon), allergic reaction to painkiller
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Trivia Hive Answers
Avocados
I
know. We just blew your mind twice. First, you found out that avocados were
berries and then you found out you will now be paying even more for extra guac.
Tom Bellamore, president of the California Avocado Commission, made a public
statement about the issue (because that is how serious Americans are about
their avocados) that it is "uncertain if there is a loss or not to next
year’s crop" and everyone from the L.A. Times to Time Magazine had to talk
about it. Even the Guardian called it "The Great Avocado Shortage of
2016". And we thought a recession was tough. Source: LA Times and the
University of Riverside
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Brain Teasers Answers
STEER -->
STEEL
CRASS --> BRASS
PESTER --> PEWTER
Each new word is an alloy.
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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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Now…☼☼☼☼
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