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9.28.16 Week: 39 \ Day: 272
September Averages: 74°\42°
86004 Today: H 70° \
L 47° Average Sky Cover: 75%
Wind ave: 7mph\Gusts: 15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 83°[2010] Record Low: 21°[1900]
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Quote of the Day
Start where you are. Use what you
have. Do what you can.
~Arthur Ashe
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Observances Today
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Banned Websites Awareness Day Link
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Fish Tank Floorshow Night
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International Right To Know Day Link
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National Drink Beer Day Link
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National Women's Health & Fitness Day
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World Rabies Day
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Observances This Week
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25-10/1 Link
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World Hearing Aid Awareness Week
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26-30 Link
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Ally Week
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26-10/1
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Banned Books Week
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26-30 Link
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Health Information and Technology Week
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26-30 Link
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National Postdoc Appreciation Week
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27-10/3 Link
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National Fall Foliage Week
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
Today’s World Historical Highlights
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48 BC Pompey the Great is assassinated on
orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt.
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1701 Divorce legalized in Maryland
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1779 American Revolution: Samuel
Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John
Jay.
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1785 Napoleon Bonaparte (16) graduates from
the military academy in Paris (42nd in a class of 51)
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1850 US Navy abolishes flogging as punishment
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1923 Abyssinia (Ethiopia) leaves League of
Nations
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1928 Prussia forbids speech from Adolf
Hitler
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1930 Lou Gehrig's errorless streak ends at 885 consecutive games
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1949 "My Friend Irma" is 1st of 12 films starring
Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis
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1957 "Honeycomb," by Jimmie Rodgers hits #1
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1961 "Doctor Kildare" debuts on NBC-TV
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1961 "Hazel" starring Shirley Booth debuts on
NBC-TV
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1962 "I'm Dickens, He's Fenster" debuts on ABC-TV
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1963 "Shari Lewis Show" last airs on NBC-TV
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1968 Beatles' "Hey Jude" single goes #1
and stays #1 for 9 weeks
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1972 David Bowie sells out his 1st show in NY Carnegie
Hall
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1974 US 1st Lady Betty Ford undergoes a radical
mastectomy
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1975 Bill authorizes admission of women to military
academies
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1980 Carl Sagan's 13 part "Cosmos" premieres on
PBS
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1982 1st reports appear of death from cyanide-laced Tylenol
capsules
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1986 Record 23,000 start in a marathon (Mexico
City)
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1997 Newscaster David Brinkley, 74, retires after 54 years
in broadcasting
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2008 SpaceX launches the first ever private spacecraft, the
Falcon 1 into orbit.
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2012 Nigeria suspends flights to Saudi Arabia
after hundreds of Nigerian women travelled without a male escort
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2015 NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water
on Mars
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My Rambling Thoughts
WOW,
glad I watched the debate last night…and all of DT’s excuses this morning. He
did not counter when Hillary said he paid zero income taxes, he said he didn’t
bring up Bill’s indiscretions…knowing full well that he has his own history of
the same thing…in deference to Chelsea. He promised to bring back jobs to
America, but all his ‘stuff’ is made overseas. I get that there are many people
in this country who like clear cut right or wrong issues. We don’t now live, or
have ever lived, in a world that has clear cut issues. No matter how badly
people want them, they just don’t exist. I can only hope that, those who make
it to the ballot box realize that very little he says will ever happen. Sorry
media, but it was just a tad to convenient that a poll came out on the day of
the first debate that showed the race was a dead heat. NOT. Finally, KUDOS to
NPR web site that had a running transcript and an fact checker on the major
points from both candidates, while it was being spoken. Good job. I only wish
that an NPR techie would have figured out how to easily jump back to new annotations,
rather than having to go to the top of the speech and scroll down to find the
newest annotations.
A
very cloudy day here and a little rain now and then.
I
had coffee with NARFE chapter president. Seems the Nat’l organization just doesn’t
get how many Federal employees and former employees are in Northern AZ. Sad,
but we are used to this in many ways.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Drift With The Current
Riddles are little poems or phrases that pose a
question that needs answering. Riddles frequently rhyme, but this is not a
requirement.
I
drift forever with the current
Down these long canals they've made
Tame, yet wild, I run elusive
Multitasking to your aid.
Before I came, the world was darker
Colder, sometimes, rougher, true
But though I might make living easy,
I'm good at killing people too.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
What
insect did the term "computer bug" come from?
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…Harper’s Index…
69 – Percentage of young British adults who regard an
internet connection as important to their quality of life.
64 –Who regard daylight as important
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2 jokes for the day
Can't
See It
Mom:
Having trouble with your computer, son?
Son: My PC says it can't see my printer.
Mom: I'm not surprised. Look how messy your room is.
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The
Importance of Punctuation
I'm
not the easiest guy in the world to get along with. So when our anniversary
rolled around, I wanted my wife to know how much I appreciated her tolerating
me for the past 20 years. I ordered flowers and told the florist to enclose a card
that read, 'Thanks for putting up with me so long.'
When my wife got the delivery, she called me at work.
"Just where do you think you going?" she asked.
"What do you mean?" I said.
She read the card aloud as the florist had written it: "Thanks for putting
up with me. So long."
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Somewhat Useless Information
The
patron saint of dentists: St. Apollonia. She reportedly had her teeth pulled
out in A.D. 249 by an anti-Christian mob.
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Despite
the popular myth, George Washington didn't have wooden teeth - his four sets of
dentures were made of hippopotamus bone, elephant ivory and eight human teeth
from dead people, held together with gold palates and springs.
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Thanks
to fluoride and other preventives, baby boomers are probably the last
generation to have a lot of cavities in their permanent teeth.
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In
1959, dentists performed 34 extractions for every 100 people; now its half that
rate.
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Drugs
can cause cavities. Antidepressants, antihypertensives, antihistamines,
decongestants and muscle relaxants all inhibit production of saliva, a natural
bacteria destroyer.
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Tiny
gold hearts, butterflies and other tattoo images have become popular among some
trendy groups. The downside is that from a distance of more than about three
feet it just looks like you have food stuck in your teeth.
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How it was discovered
The
inventor of the Coca-Cola wasn't a shrewd businessman, a seller of sweets, or a
dreamer looking to strike it rich in the beverage business. John Pemberton just
wanted to cure headaches. A pharmacist by profession, Pemberton used two main
ingredients in his hopeful headache cure: coca leaves and cola nuts. When his
lab assistant accidentally mixed the two with carbonated water, the world's
first Coke was the result. Over the years, Coke would tinker with the now-secret
recipe. But sadly, Pemberton died two years later and never saw his simple
mixture give birth to a soft drink empire. BrokenSphere at Wikipedia
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Birthdays Today
“[
]” indicates age at death
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[88] William
Windom,
actor (Farmer's Daughter, Murder She Wrote), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2012)
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[87] Avery
Brundage,
CEO (Intl Olympic Committee, 1952-72), born in Detroit, Michigan
[d1975]
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82- Brigitte
Bardot,
sex kitten (And God Created Women), born in Paris, France
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[73] Thomas
Crapper,
English plumber and inventor (ballcock), born in Thorne, Yorkshire
(d. 1910)
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[73] Ed
Sullivan,
TV variety show host/gossip columnist (Ed Sullivan Show), born in New
York City
[d1974]
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[71ish] Confucius,
Chinese philosopher and founder of Confucianism, born in Zou, Lu
state, China
(d. ~479 BC)
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[70] Al
Capp, [Alfred Gerald Caplin],
cartoonist (Li'l Abner), born in New Haven, Connecticut
[d1979]
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[69] Richard
Bright,
England, physician (Bright's Disease/nephritis)
[d1858]
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52- Janeane
Garofalo,
American comedienne (SNL, Truth about Cats & Dogs), born in
Newton, New Jersey
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49- Mira
Sorvino,
American actress (Quiz Show, Norma Jean & Marilyn), born in
Tenafly, New Jersey
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48-Naomi Watts, actress
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39- Se
Ri Pak, Korea
South Korean golfer, born in Daejeon,
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29- Hilary
Duff,
actress and singer (Lizzie McGuire), born in Houston, Texas
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Historical Obits Today
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@72-1891 Herman
Melville,
American writer (Billy Budd, Moby-Dick), heart failure
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@72-1895 Louis
Pasteur,
French bacteriologist (Pasteurization), stroke
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@50-1914 Richard
Sears,
businessman (Sears, Roebuck and Company), Bright’s disease
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@76-1938 Charles
Duryea,
American inventor (first American car)
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@63-1953 Edwin
Hubble,
American astronomer, first to announce existence of other galaxies, blood
clot
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@75-1964 Harpo
[Arthur] Marx,
comedian (Marx Bros), after surgery
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@41-1966 Eric
Fleming,
actor (Gil-Rawhide), drown during movie filming
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@65-1978 Pope
John Paul I [Albino Luciani],
263rd Roman Catholic Pope, dies after 33 days as pope, heart attack
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@72-1989 Ferdinand
Marcos,
President of Philippines (1965-86), organ failure
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@65-1991 Miles
Davis,
jazz trumpeter, pneumonia
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@80-2000 Pierre
Trudeau,
15th Canadian Prime Minister (Liberal: 1968-79, 1980-84), Parkinson's
disease and prostate cancer at 80
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@95-2002 Hartland
Molson,
Canadian businessman (Molson
family), senator and sports executive (Montreal Canadiens) (b. 1907)
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@76-2003 Althea
Gibson,
American tennis player, infections
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Brain Teasers Answers
Electricity
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Moth
The
first computer bug was, indeed, an actual bug. In 1945, Rear Admiral Grace
Murray Hopper was assigned to work on the Harvard Mark II Electromechanical
Computing Machine when she noticed there was an actual moth stuck in the
mechanisms of the computer causing a relay. Even though this was the beginning
of the term "computer bug" and "debugging," it is actually
not the first time the word "bug" was used in terms of glitchy
mechanics. There is a record of Thomas Edison using the word "bug"
when referring to an issue with his phonograph all the way back in 1889. Now
that's pretty fly! Source: Wired
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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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