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10.20.16 Week: 42 \ Day: 294
October Averages: 63°\31°
86004 Today: H 60° \
L 27° Average Sky Cover: 3%
Wind ave: 10mph\Gusts: 21mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 77°[2003] Record Low: 4°[1949]
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Quote of the Day
Today you are you! That is truer
than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
~Dr. Seuss
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Observances Today
Birth
of the Bab (Baha'i)
Conflict
Resolution Day Link
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Get Smart About Credit Day
International Credit Union Day Link
Miss American Rose Day
Spirit Day Link
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Observances This Week
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12-20
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Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
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16-22
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Freedom From Bullies Week
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16-22
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International Infection Prevention Week Link
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16-21
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Mediation Week Link
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16-22
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National Character Counts Week
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16-22
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National Business Women's Week Link
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16-22
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National Chemistry Week
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16-22
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National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link
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16-22
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National Food Bank Week
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16-22
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National Forest Products Week
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16-22
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National Friends of Libraries Week
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16-22
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National Nuclear Science Week
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16-22
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National Pharmacy Week Link
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16-22
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National Save For Retirement Week Link
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16-22
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National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link
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16-22
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Pastoral Care Week Link
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16-22
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Teen Read Week Link
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17-23
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Asexuality Week
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17-21
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Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link
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17-24
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Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
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17-23
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Freedom of Speech Week Link
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17-21
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Medical Assistants Recognition Week Link
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17-21
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National Health Education Week Link
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17-21
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National School Bus Safety Week
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17-21
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YWCA Week Without Violence Link
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Today’s US Historical Highlights
♦Today’s
World Historical Highlights
♦ 1097 1st Crusaders
arrive in Antioch during the First Crusade
♦ 1603 Chinese uprising
in Philippines fails after 23,000 killed
♦ 1714 Georg Ludwig von
Hannover crowned as Britain's King George I
1774 American
Continental Congress orders discouragment of entertainment
1786 Harvard
University organizes 1st astronomical expedition in US
1803 US
Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1817 1st
Mississippi "Showboat" leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1818 49th
parallel forms as border between US & Canada
1818 US
& Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
♦ 1822 1st edition of
London Sunday Times
1864 US
President Lincoln formally establishes Thanksgiving as a national holiday
1873 P
T Barnum Hippodrome featuring "Greatest Show on Earth" opens (NYC)
1903 US
wins disputed boundary between District of Alaska & Canada
1906 Dr
Lee DeForest demonstrated his electrical vacuum tube (radio tube)
♦ 1911 Norwegian Roald Amundsen sets
out a race to the South Pole
1924 1st
Negro League World Series: KC Monarchs shuts out Hilldales, 5-0
♦ 1935 400,000
demonstrators against fascism in Madrid
♦ 1935 Communist forces
end their Long March at Yan'an, in Shaanxi, China, bringing Mao Zedongto
prominence
1955 Harry
Belafonte records "Day-O" (Banana Boat Song)
♦ 1955 Publication of
"The Return of the King", the 3rd and final volume of "The Lord
of the Rings" by J.
R. R. Tolkien by George Allen and Unwin in London
1973 President
Nixon proclaims Jim
Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st ½ century
1988 Man
armed with explosives blows himself up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
1990 Antiwar
protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1998 Comedian Richard Pryor is
awarded the 1st ever Mark Twain Prize for American Humor
♦ 2011 The former leader
of Libya, Muammar
Gaddafi, and his son Moatassem Gaddafi are killed shortly
after the battle of Sirte (2011) while in the custody of NTC fighters.
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My Rambling Thoughts
Very
busy day yesterday. Did some shopping, then stopped to pick up some meds and
decided to get the Shingles shot. I had Shingles about 4 years ago and my PCP
at the time said ‘Guess you should have gotten the Shingles shot when you turned
60. Hmmm. So I asked my new PCP if I should get the shot, even though he knew I
had had them before. He said YES. Talked to the pharmacist and he said that
with or without the shot I could get them again, but they would be much less
severe. Little did I know that the vaccine was frozen and I had to wait almost
45 minutes to get it thawed and mixed. Well I got the shot. While waiting a
lady was sitting there and she said she had gotten the shot and had three mild
attacks since the shot. BOO! Anyway that threw off my whole schedule for the
rest of the day.
Did
my weekly grocery shopping this morning and all is back as it should be around
here.
Glad
the last debate is on TV tonight. I’ll be there watching it and have my
computer doing the NPR fact checker site.
I’ve
been reading up on routers. Not my favorite reading material, but I am sick and
tired of the delays I get with my current router. It is only a couple of years
old, but it has always had the lag and it seems that newer models don’t have
that problem…Checked Sam’s today, and will check Best Buy sometime this week.
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Brain Teasers
(answers
at the end of post)
Car Trip
Language brain teasers are those that involve
the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.
While
riding in the car I saw a license plate that read like this:
IXMNIZ
What occupation did the man in the car have?
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers
at the end of post)
Which
horror film icon was NOT featured in the classic era of Universal Studios
horror films?
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…Harper’s Index…
2050 – Year in which the plastic in the world’s oceans
is projected to outweigh the fish
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2 jokes for the day
A
police officer arrives at the scene of an accident, in which a car smashed into
a tree.
The cop rushes over to the vehicle and asks the driver, "Are you seriously
hurt?"
"How should I know?" the man answers, "I'm not a lawyer!"
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A
married couple were vacationing in Hawaii and disagreed on the correct
pronunciation of the state name. He said it was Hawaii and his wife said it was
Havaii.
They stopped a man on the street to ask his opinion. He said the correct
pronunciation was Havaii. The man's wife was delighted and thanked the man.
The man said, "You're velcome."
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Yep, It Really Happened
*-----
Woman Explodes Vacuum with Gasoline -----*
Security cameras at a Florida car wash captured the moment a vacuum exploded
while a woman was using it to clean gasoline from the trunk of her car. Billy
Barnwell, owner of Shuttle Car Wash in Titusville, said his surveillance camera
captured the moment the vacuum exploded in flames while a woman was using it to
suck up the gasoline that apparently spilled in the trunk of her car. "It
was a heck of an explosion. It just burnt everything up," Barnwell said.
"If you saw the video, you've seen it. It scared the heck out of her."
The woman, who did not appear to be injured in the explosion, drove off without
speaking to employees about the blast. Barnwell said she hasn't been seen at
the station since the incident.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Sugar makes kids go crazy.
***
The Journal of the American Medical Association published a review of 23
studies on the subject of kids and sugar, the conclusion: Sugar doesn't affect
behavior. And it's possible that it is the idea itself that is so ingrained as
fact that it affects our perception.
Cholesterol
in eggs is bad for the heart.
The perceived association between dietary cholesterol and risk for coronary
heart disease stems from dietary recommendations proposed in the 1960s that had
little scientific evidence, other than the known association between saturated
fat and cholesterol and animal studies where cholesterol was fed in amounts far
exceeding normal intakes. Since then, study after study has found that dietary
cholesterol (the cholesterol found in food) does not negatively raise your
body's cholesterol. It is the consumption of saturated fat that is the demon
here. So eat eggs, don't eat steak.
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Usually Mis-learned in School
Classical
Roman and Greek Marble statues were white
Everyone
who has been to a major art museum or looked at an art history book has seen
fantastic white marble statues that the ancient Greek and Roman cultures made.
In reality, the statues were full of vibrant colors and over the years, the
paint covering them simply has worn off. In fact, the famous Roman bust of
Caligula (everyone's favorite insane Roman despot) originally looked a lot like
King Joffrey from Game of Thrones...hmm...
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Birthdays Today
“♦” indicates age
at death
♦
92 John
Dewey, American philosopher, educational theorist and
writer (learn by doing), born in Burlington, Vermont (d. 1952)
♦
90 Christopher
Wren, English astronomer and architect (St. Paul's Cathedral), born in East
Knoyle, Wiltshire (d. 1723)
♦
85- Joyce
Brothers, pop psychologist ($64,000 Question, Naked Gun), born in NYC, New York
(d. 2013)
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84 Grandpa
[Louis M] Jones, Niagra KY, country musician (Hee-Haw) [d1998]
♦
82 James
Chadwick, English physicist (discovered neutron), born in
Bollington, Cheshire (d. 1974)
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81 Art
Buchwald, columnist/author (Have I Ever Lied to You), born in Mt Vernon, New
York [d2007]
♦ 73 Bela Lugosi [Blaskó], Austrian actor
(Dracula, Plan 9 From Outer Space), born in Lugos, Austro-Hungarian Empire (d.
1956)
71- Connie
Chung, news ancher (NBC, CBS), born in Washington, D.C.
♦
69 Jerry
Ohrbach, actor (Law & Order, Dirty Dancing), born in The Bronx, New York
[d2004]
66- Tom
Petty, American classic rock singer (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), born in
Gainesville, Florida
65- Al
Greenwood, keyboardist (Foreigner-Feels Like the First Time)
♦
63 Mickey
Mantle "The Commerce Comet", NY Yankee, home run
slugger (1956 Triple Crown), born in Spavinaw, Oklahoma (d. 1995)
58 Viggo
Mortensen, American Actor (Lord of the Rings, The Road), born in New York, NY
♦ 50 Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, jazz
pianist/composer, born in New Orleans,[d1941]
45- Snoop
Dogg [Calvin Broadus], rapper (What's My Name, Gin &
Juice), born in Long Beach, California
37- John
Krasinski, American actor (The Office)
♦
30 The
Báb, Persian founder of the Bábí Faith (d. 1850)
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Historical Obits Today
@96-2006 Jane
Wyatt, American actress (Father Knows Best)
@79-2010 Bob
Guccione, American publisher (Penthouse magazine), cancer
@90-1964 Herbert
Hoover, 31st President of US (1929-33)
@84-1990 Joel
McCrea, actor (Ramrod), pulmonary complications
@80-1994 Burt
Lancaster, actor (Elmer Gantry), heart attack
@79-1871 Charles Babbage, English mathematician/inventor
(calculator), renal failure
@75-1983 Merle
Travis, American country singer, heart attack
@70ish-2011 Muammar
Gaddafi, Libyan revolutionary, political theorist and
dictator (1969-2011), beaten to death in captivity
@70-1936 Anne
Sullivan, American teacher, stroke
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Brain Teasers Answers
He
was an optometrist. The license plate reads like this:
I-XMN-IZ
(So it reads I Examine Eyes)
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Trivia Hive
Answers
Vampira
From
the 1920s through the 1950s, Universal Studios released many unforgettable
horror, suspense and science fiction films featuring characters that would go
on to become cultural icons. Dracula, Frankenstein, The Mummy, The Invisible
Man, The Phantom of the Opera, Creature from the Black Lagoon, and The Wolf Man
are just of few of the legendary movies Universal produced in this era. Vampira
was a horror-themed movie host on local television, played by the actress Maila
Nurmi. SOURCE: moviepilot.com
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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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