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10.29.16 Week: 43
\ Day: 303
October Averages:
63°\31°
86004 Today: H 69° \ L 40°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts:
15mph Visibility: 10 mi
Record High: 72°[1950]
Record Low: 9°[1971]
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Quote of the Day
He is richest who is
content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
~ Socrates
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Observances
Today
Internet Day Link
National Cat Day Link
World Psoriasis
Day Link
National Forgiveness Day
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Observances This
Week
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23-29
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National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link
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23-29
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National Massage Therapy Week Link
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23-29
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National Respiratory Care Week Link
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23-29
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Give Wildlife a Brake! Week Link
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23-29
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Kids Care Week
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23-29
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Pro Bono Week Link
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23-29
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Rodent Awareness Week
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23-31
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Red Ribbon Week Link
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24-30
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Disarmament Week
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24-31
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Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
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24-11/11
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World Origami Days
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25-31
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International Magic Week
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26-29
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International Dyslexia Association Reading Week
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Today’s US
Historical Highlights
♦ Today’s World Historical Highlights
♦ 539
BC King Cyrus The Great of Persia marches into the city of Babylon,
releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human
Rights Declaration.
♦ 529
BC The international day of Cyrus the Great, king of Persia, who declared
the first charter of human rights in the world also known as Cyrus Cylinder.
♦ 1390 First
trial for witchcraft in Paris.
1618 English adventurer,
writer, and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh is beheaded for allegedly
conspiring against James I of England.
1682 William Penn lands
at what is now Chester, Pennsylvania
1692 Court of Oyer and
Terminer, convened for Salem witch trials, dissolved
1792 Mount Hood (Oregon) is
named after the British naval officer Alexander Arthur Hood by Lt. William E.
Broughton who spotted the mountain near the mouth of the Willamette River.
1811 1st Ohio River steamboat
leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans
♦ 1863 International
Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917,
1944, 1963)
1940 Secretary of War Henry L
Stimson drew 1st number-258-in 1st peacetime military draft in US history
1942 Alaska Highway completed
1945 First ballpoint pen goes
on sale, manufactured by Biro
1956 Chet Huntley & David
Brinkley, NBC News, team up
♦ 1958 Boris
Pasternak refuses Nobel prize for literature
1958 Dr F Mason Sones is first
doctor to perform a coronary angiogram
1969 Supreme Court orders end to
all school desegregation "at once"
1988 2,000 US anti-abortion
protesters arrested for blocking clinics
♦
1997 Iraq's Revolution Command Council announces
that it will no longer allow US citizens and US aircraft to serve with UN arms
inspection teams
1998 Apartheid: In South
Africa, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission presents its report, which
condemns both sides for committing atrocities.
1998 Space Shuttle Discovery
blasts off on STS-95 with 77-year old John Glenn on board, making him the oldest
person to go into space.
♦
2004 Arabic news network, Al Jazeera broadcasts an
excerpt from a video of Osama bin Ladenin which the terrorist leader first
admits direct responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks and references
the 2004 U.S. presidential election
2008 Delta Air Lines merges
with Northwest Airlines, creating the world's largest airline and reducing the
number of US legacy carriers to 5.
2011 Record-breaking snowstorm
in the northeastern United States leaves nearly 2 million residents without
power for more than 36 hours.
2012 Hurricane Sandy makes
landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and
forces the New York stock exchange to close
2012 Publishing companies
Penguin and Random House merge to form the world's largest publisher
2015 Paul Ryan (R-Wisconsin)
is elected Speaker of the US House of Representatives, succeeding John Boehner
(R-Ohio)
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My Rambling
Thoughts
So yesterday was busy. Got a haircut after lunch with our retirement
group. Did some other quick shopping. Lunch was delayed about 30 minutes as
Mary had an appointment. Today is much less busy and enjoying a cloudy day with
the hope of rain.
Turned on the news to see all the crazies yelling and screaming about an
FBI investigation. Without knowing much of anything the crazies are screaming ‘see
we told you’, ‘now maybe you will believe us’. Come on. Let’s get some facts from
the FBI before we jump into the abyss. On the other side, this may turn out to
be a reason not to vote early.
I am reminded to the new idea of email, while working on the Rez way
back in the day. At first we could not conduct any BIA business with email. The
after a couple of years we all got passwords to use on our computers that would
allow us to use email within the system. It was a great password, and I am
still using variations of it on my important accounts. Then the BIA sent
business people to many trainings so that government financial business could
be done on computers. Then, in another area of the BIA, someone hacked into the
server that kept track of funding due to individuals and tribes that were to
receive mineral rights money. Overnight we were all stopped from doing any BIA
business on computers. It took almost 3 years before we could resume using
computers for business. Even though I served as a principal at various schools
for almost 7 years, I was never granted access to the payroll of my employees.
This always seemed odd, since I was responsible for verifying timesheets for every
employee at the schools I worked. If there had ever been a problem with paying
employees, I would have been notified, but without authorization to the data, I
would not have been held responsible. Crazy. Final conclusion, few in the
government want to see innovation and when it comes, few are ready for it, and
mistakes with great implications will happen and 99.9% are done without malice.
One violation I do wish would happen…that WikiLeaks would release
information from the RNC. It’s called tit for tat.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Nothing But Net
These brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of
common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the
words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick
the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Which word from Group B belongs in Group A?
GROUP A
Clipper
Caviler
Pacer
Maverick
GROUP B
Heat
Suns
Trailblazer
Jazz
Pelican
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Today’s Trivia
Hive
(answers at the end of post)
What player holds the modern Major League Baseball record for the
highest single-season batting average?
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…Harper’s Index…
44 ♦ Minimum number of Mexican mayors who have been
killed by hitmen in the past decade
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2 jokes for the
day
John and Nancy were married for 40 years and decided they wanted to
renew their vows and planned a second wedding.
They were discussing the details with their friends. Nancy wasn't going to wear
a traditional bridal gown and she started describing the dress she was planning
to wear. One of her friends asked what color shoes she had to go with the
dress.
Nancy replied, "Silver."
At that point, her husband chimed in, "Yep, silver...to match her
hair."
Shooting a glaring look at John's bald spot, Nancy's friend said, "So,
John, I guess you are going barefoot then."
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Al: What kind of woman did you marry?
Sam: She's an angel, that's what she is.
Al: Boy, you sure are lucky. Mine's still living.
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Yep, It Really
Happened
You Don't Have To Go Home But You Can't Stay Here
A bar employee was arrested on a charge of assault after allegedly
shooting a customer who refused to leave, according to police in Tennessee.
Nashville police said that they have arrested the bar employee, who was not
identified, for using his gun to shoot the customer after closing time.
According to the criminal complaint, police officers were called to the Kat's
Bar and Grille around 1:00 a.m. on Friday, on a report of a dispute. Witnesses
at the scene told police that the dispute broke out when the customer refused
to leave following closing time. The employee pulled out his gun and fired a
shot. The bullet grazed the client's face. The employee left the scene before
police arrived. Officers went to his home, where he was arrested.
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Somewhat Useless
Information
- Gold is the sixteenth rarest of the chemical elements. Though it is one of the rarest metals, gold was the first to be discovered by man.
- Mercury, which becomes solid at -40 degrees F, is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
- The rare metal gallium melts at 86 degrees F. It is safe to touch. If you hold a piece of it in your hand and wait, your body heat will melt it.
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Birthdays Today
indicates
age at death
91- Carl Djerassi, Austrian-born American chemist, father
of the contraceptive pill, born in Vienna [d2015]
85- Edmund Halley, astronomer (Halley's Comet) [d1742]
78- Ellen
Johnson-Sirleaf, President of Liberia (2006 -) and the first
elected female head of state in Africa, born in Monrovia, Liberia
71- Melba
Moore, [Beatrice], singer/actress (Ellis Island), born in NYC, New York
69- Richard
Dreyfuss, American actor (Jaws, Nuts, Mr Holland's Opus), born in Brooklyn, New
York
68- Kate
Jackson, actress (Rookies, Charlie's Angels), born in
Birmingham, Alabama
65- Charles Ebbets, (namesake of Ebbets Field, Brooklyn)
[d1925]
59- Fanny Brice, singing comedienne (Ziegeld Follies, Baby
Snooks), born in NYC, New York [d1951]
47- Joseph Goebbels, German politician and Reich Minister
of Propaganda in Nazi Germany (1933-45), born in Rheydt, Germany (d. 1945)
45- Winona
Ryder, American actress (Heathers, Edward Scissorhand),
born in Winona, Minnesota
30-Derik Theler, actor (Baby Daddy)
28- Johnny Lewis, actor
(Sons of Anarchy, Aliens vs. Predator: Requiem), born in Los Angeles,
California (d. 2012)
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Historical Obits
Today
@65-1618 Walter
Raleigh, English scholar/poet/historian, beheaded for
treason
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Brain Teasers
Answers
ANSWER: Trailblazers
Each word in Group A is both the name of an NBA basketball team as well as a
model of vehicle:
Los Angeles Clipper/Packard Clipper (1941-1957)
Cleveland Cavaliers /Chevrolet Cavalier (1982-2005)
Indiana Pacers/AMC Pacer (1975-1980)
Dallas Mavericks/Ford Maverick (1970-1977)
Portland Trailblazers/Chevrolet TrailBlazer (2000-2008)
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Trivia Hive Answers
Tony Gwynn
In 1994, San Diego Padres right fielder Tony Gwynn set the modern record
for highest single-season batting average, hitting .394 with 64 RBIs and 12
home runs. Gwynn played his entire 19-year career with the Padres and retired
in 2001 with 15 all-star selections and a career batting average of .338, also
a modern record. Source: Major League Baseball.
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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.
☼☼☼☼…And That Is All for Now…☼☼☼☼
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