3-6-15

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Almanac: Week: 10 \ Day: 065 
March Averages: 50°\23°
86004 Today: H 47°\L 9° Average Sky Cover: 0% 
Wind ave:   6mph\Gusts:  15mph
Ave. High: 48° Record High:  68° (1910) Ave. Low: 21° Record Low:  -2° (1935)
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Observances Today:
Independence Day-Ghana (Gold Coast)-1957-from UK
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Day of The Dude
Dentist's Day
Employee Appreciation Day
Middle Name Pride Day
National Frozen Food Day
National Salesperson Day
Oreo Cookie Day
Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day—1st major Russian female mathematician, responsible for important original contributions to analysis, differential equations and mechanics

Observances This Week:
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 …Celebrate Your Name Week
…National Cheerleading Week
…National Consumer Protection Week
National Pet Sitters Week  
…National Procrastination Week

…National Ghostwriters Week
…National Maple Syrup Days
…National Schools Social Work Week 
National Severe Storm Preparedness Week 
…National Sleep Awareness Week
…National Words Matter Week
…Professional Pet Sitters Week
…Read an E-Book Week 
Return The Borrowed Books Week
…Save Your Vision Week
…Severe Weather Preparedness Week 
Telecommuter Appreciation Week (Always Week that has Alexander Graham Bell's Birthday 3/2)
…Women in Construction Week 
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…National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
…Universal Human Beings Week
...Will Eisner Week

…Newspaper in Education Week
National School Breakfast Week
…Share A Story - Shape A Future Week  
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
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…Crufts (Worlds Largest Dog Show)  
…National Money Show
Festival of Owls Week

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1646 - Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1775 - 1st Negro Mason in north America initiated, Boston
1788 - The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement
1808 - 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 - Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1831 - Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point military academy
1836 - Battle of the Alamo: after 13 days of fighting during Texas Revolution between 1,500 and 3,000 Mexicans overwhelmed the Texans at the Alamo. Between 182 and 257 Texans died, including William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett.
1857 - Dred Scott Decision: US Supreme Court rules Africans cannot be US citizens
1881 - Building of a Methodist church was begun in Tucson under the auspices of Rev. G.H. Adams.
1886 - 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1886 - 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC
1896 - 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 - "Asprin" (acetylsalicylic acid) patented by Felix Hoffmann at German company Bayer
1902 - US Census Bureau forms
1918 - US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1944 - USAAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
1950 - Silly Putty invented
1959 - Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1964 - Cassius Clay joins the Nation of Islam and its leader Elijah Muhammad renames him Muhammad Ali
1966 - Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1972 - Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1978 - Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Georgia
1981 - Walter Cronkite signs off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"
1985 - Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
1991 - Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, President Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"

Today’s World Events through History
1521 - Magellan discovers Guam
1834 - Toronto incorporated with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata" premieres in Venice
1961 - 1st London minicabs introduced
1970 - A Catholic man is shot dead by British soldiers in Belfast, North Ireland
1988 - 3 IRA suspects shot dead in Gibraltar by SAS officers
1997 - Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, recovered a week later.
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


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My Rambling Thoughts
Had lunch with Cheryl today as Mary was in Phoenix with her brother. We went to our favorite Mexican place. Nice. Her son is coming over from CA during their spring break with at least some of the grandkids.
After 2 long and expensive trials, the Jody Arias case is turned over, by law, for the sentencing. Quite a spectacle here in AZ. She was found guilty of murdering her boyfriend back in 2008 by stabbing him 27 times, then shooting him. She’s guilty, neither could decide sentencing, the death penalty was on the table. Now the judge will decide in April if it is life in prison without parole or life in prison with possibility of parole in 25 years. AZ has some crazy laws and cost tax payers mucho dinero.
Then the House in AZ passed a law and sent it to the AZ Senate that would allow guns and rifles allowed inside government buildings that don’t have metal detectors. The yes voting Reps must have investments in the metal detector business. Who buys the thousands of detectors needed? The tax payers of course. Damn, I feel safer already. NOT. If the law passes, I say the legislative salaries of those voting YES pay for the detectors that will be needed.
Ringling Bros Circus will no longer have elephants in their shows after 2015. A huge win for animal rights activists who have been asking for this for decades. Next battle will be the big cats. Certainly a good thing for all the animals. Times change. I have been lucky enough to see most of the circus animals of my youth in their natural habitat in Africa as well as many more animals. Not all kids are as fortunate as me. I still haven’t seen any wild tigers, but there is still time…if I do it soon. Of course I expected to see tigers in Africa since they lived and worked together in the circus…but I was also watching out for Tarzan, Jane, and Boy.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Diophantus was a Greek mathematician who lived in the third century. He was one of the first mathematicians to use algebraic symbols.
Most of what is known about Diophantus's life comes from an algebraic riddle from around the early sixth century. The riddle states:
Diophantus's youth lasted one sixth of his life. He grew a beard after one twelfth more. After one seventh more of his life, he married. 5 years later, he and his wife had a son. The son lived exactly one half as long as his father, and Diophantus died four years after his son. 
How many years did Diophantus live?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Car Facts…
╪ In Norway, owners of electric cars enjoy free public parking, free ferry trips, and the right to drive in bus lanes.
╪ China's Building an Ultra-Modern Car-Free City from Scratch

Chocolate Facts…
There is a fruit by the name of Black Sapote or “chocolate pudding fruit” which tastes like chocolate pudding and is actually low fat and has about “4 times as much vitamin C as an orange”.
The Aztecs were the first to serve chocolate as a drink. They also mixed it with hot chili pepper to make it really 'hot'.

Flagstaff, AZ History…
1915- 100 YEARS AGO
A blaze in the home of the Flagstaff City Marshal originated in back of the kitchen range and burned through to the studding, causing considerable smoke and some damage before being extinguished. It was put out before the fire carts arrived. Damage about $25.

Harper’s Index…
33
Percentage increase since 2008 in the number of annual incidents of violence against health-care workers in China
40
Percentage of Chinese doctors who report having considered leaving the profession because of the threat of violence

Prison Facts…
In 1986 federal prisoner Ronald J. McIntosh escaped during a prisoner transfer. A week later he returned in a stolen helicopter and broke out his girlfriend.
In Brazil, prison inmates can reduce their sentence by 4 days (up to 48 days a year) for every book they read and write a report on.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
The Iron Man edition of Mr. Potato Head is named Tony Starch.
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2 jokes for the day
Two men are drinking in a bar. One turns to the other and says, "I bet you $100 that I can bite my eye." 
The second fellow thinks to himself, I guess he's had about enough, so he replies, "OK, you're on." 
The first man takes out his glass eye and bites it. So the second man has to pay. 
Awhile later the first man says, "I bet you $100 I can bite my other eye." 
The second man thinks, well, he can't have TWO glass eyes; he obviously can see. So he says, "All right, you're on." 
The second man promptly takes out his false teeth and bites his other eye.

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I have a fear of speedbumps... 
But I'm slowly getting over it.     

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Yep, It Really Happened

SOCHI, Russia (UPI)

A pair of Russian bears purported to have become alcoholics from living outside a Sochi restaurant for 20 years are being offered rehab in Romania. The Big Hearts Foundation said the two male bears, which a February court ruling ordered to be seized from the owner of the Georgian restaurant in Sochi on March 3, have been offered a new home at a bear sanctuary outside Brasov, Romania, where officials said the animals would be treated for alcohol addiction. "The people there have worked with dancing bears who had similar problems," Anna Kogan, head of the Big Hearts Foundation, told the BBC. "It can be done." The Big Hearts Foundation, based in Britain, is working with charities, including France's Brigitte Bardot Foundation, to secure transport for the animals. Kogan said the charities are seeking help with the logistics of the bears' move. "It's a very expensive process to move them abroad," Kogan said. Sergei Zenkov of the Russian Nature Ministry said the agency would support moving the Sochi bears to the Romanian sanctuary, but the animal rights charities would be responsible for taking care of the necessary paperwork. The Big Hearts Foundation said the bears "drowned in beer" at the restaurant for 20 years, as patrons would frequently pass drinks to the animals. The owner of the restaurant said "beer is good for the bears because of the Sochi climate." "There are drunken people who come to the restaurant, park their cars in front of the bears and throw things to the animals so that they get drunk and behave funnily. They are held in cages -- and have been blinded by the car lights," Kogan told The Independent.      
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Somewhat Useless Information
While a lot of people have access to the internet, most people don’t.
Only a minority of people globally have internet access, to be more exact.
According to the report, only 37.9 percent of the world’s population accesses the internet at least once a year, but the percentage is far higher in developed nations, especially the West.
North America is the region with the highest percentage of internet users, where 84.4 percent of the total population has at least some access to the internet.
On the other hand, South Asia has the lowest percentage of internet users with just 13.7 percent.
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Birthday’s Today
89 - Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor (FRB)
71 - Mary Wilson, vocalist (Supremes-Where Did Our Love Go)
68 - Richard "Dick" Fosbury, Portland Oregon, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968)
68 - Rob Reiner, Bronx, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)
56 - Tom Arnold, [Mr Roseanne Barr Arnold], actor (True Lies)
52 - D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
43 - Shaquille O'Neal, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96)
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Remembered for being born today
1475-1564@88 - Michelangelo, Italian painter\sculptor\...
1619-1655@36 - Cyrano de Bergerac, French playwright, known for his large nose
1806-1861@55 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese)
1884-1959@75 - Molla Mallory, Norway, Tennis (eight-time U.S. Open champ)
1893-1981@80 - [Walter] Furry Lewis, father of the blues
1906-1975@70 - Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle)
1906-1959@52 - Lou Costello, comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello)
1913-1993@80 - Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers)
1923-2009@86 - Ed McMahon, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search)
1927-2014@87 - Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian novelist, (1982 Nobel Prize)
1929-2013@84 - Tom Foley, politician (congress, speaker of the house)
1936-2014@78 - Marion S Barry, (Mayor-D-Wash DC), drug indictment
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Historical Obits Today
Georgia O'Keefe, US painter (Flowers), 1986@ 98
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, American jurist, 1935@93
Ayn Rand, author-philosopher (Atlas Shrugged), heart failure, 1982@77
John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever), 1932, @77
Nelson Eddy, US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera), stroke, 1967@65
William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason), stroke, 1970@55
Louisa May Alcott, American author (Little Women), stroke, 1888@55
Davy Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), killed in battle, 1836@49
Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier, at Alamo, 1836@40
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Brain Teasers Answers
The riddle, the "facts" of which may or may not be true, results in the following equation:

x/6 + x/12 + x/7 + 5 + x/2 + 4 = x

where x is Diophantus's age at the time of his death.

Therefore, Diophantus lived exactly 84 years.

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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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