4-23-15

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Almanac: Week: 17 \ Day: 113
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H    62°\L 30° Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  14mph
Ave. High: 61° Record High:  77° (1949) Ave. Low: 29° Record Low:  14° (1963)
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Observances Today:
Awareness Day
English Language Day
Impossible Astronaut Day
Lover's Day
Movie Theatre Day
National Lost Dog
National Zucchini Bread Day
Read Me Day
Take a Chance Day
Take Our Daughters & Sons to Work Day
Talk Like Shakespeare Day
World Book & Copyright Day
World Book Night
World Laboratory Animal Day
World Laboratory Day
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Observances This Week:
18-23
National Toddler Immunization Week
Police Officers Who Gave Their Lives In The Line of Duty Week
19-25
Administrative Professionals Week
Animal Cruelty/Human Violence Awareness Week
Bedbug Awareness Week
Coin Week
Fibroid Awareness Week
Medical Laboratory Professionals Week 
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
National Crime Victims’ Rights Week
National Environmental Education Week
National Occupational Health Nursing Week
National Infertility Awareness Week
National Karaoke Week
National Pet ID Week 
National Princess Week  
Sky Awareness Week
20-24

National Paperboard Packaging Week
National Playground Safety Week 
National Work Zone Safety Awareness Week
Safe Kids Week
Spring Astronomy Week
World Week of Action for Animals in Laboratories  

22-27
National Tattoo Week
US Film Festival
Fiddler's Frolic

23-25
Gathering of the Nations Powwow
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1635 - Oldest US public institution, Boston Latin School founded
1662 - Connecticut chartered as an English colony
1900 - 1st know occurrence of word "hillbillie" (NY Journal)
1918 - National Urban League forms
1947 - 85 houses were in the process of being built in Broadmoor subdivision,
 a postwar housing project south of Broadway between Broadway Village
 and Tucson Boulevard.
1953 - KTAR (now KPNX) TV channel 12 in Phoenix, AZ (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 - 1st US satellite to reach the moon launched
1989 - Betsy King wins LPGA USX Golf Classic
1995 - President Clinton declares a national day of mourning for Oklahoma City
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Today’s World Events through History
1014 - King Brian Boru of Ireland defeats Viking forces at Battle of
  Clontarf freeing Ireland from foreign control
1348 - 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1597 - William Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor is 1st
  performed, with Queen Elizabeth I of England in attendance
1851 - Canada issues its 1st postage stamps
1932 - Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1991 - Bjorn Borg loses 6-2, 6-3 to Jordi Arrese after 8 year lay off
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
I remembered last night that I needed to do a fasting blood test…never my favorite. I didn’t eat or drink anything after 9pm, got up at my usual 6:30a and waited until 9a to go for the damn blood test. Finished that about 9:45 and headed out to breakfast, as I was starving.  Got home and did the laundry. Boring. All is now folded or hung and/or put away.
Mary and I are doing lunch tomorrow and when we set it up she was busy gathering tax records as her home state of Oregon sent her a delinquent tax notice with penalties growing every day. She paid the estimated tax in January, filed in April and expected a refund check as she knew she paid too much. Now they not only want all she paid, but they want more and are charging her a penalty every day until she pays. I went through that with CO a few years ago and it is no fun. I’ll learn more tomorrow at lunch.
About taxes, I fully understand that my investments make for a complicated tax return. I also am a middle class senior citizen. I do not think that I should have to pay over $1000 a year to have my taxes done. The tax code is so complicated and Congress makes it more complicated every year…something like 3000 new pages of rules this year alone. I am rapidly becoming a flat tax person, No deductions, no IRS, no tax preparers. The IRS already knows how much money you received. Let them send me a bill each year for X% of that income. If I had more withheld than I owe, then let me sign the bill and get a check. If I owe them money, let me send a check along with the bill. I know that many people enjoy the tax code and find it a game to find all the possible deductions etc. It is not for me. I want everyone to pay their fair share and a flat tax seems to be the only way.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I stare at you,
you stare at me.
I have three eyes,
Yet I cannot see.
Every time I blink,
I give commands.
You do as you are told.
With your feet and hands.
What am I?

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO - 1940
~ Monday morning C. O. Johnson started the work of tearing down the old Emerson School building preparing for the new. A crew of 17 men, including 12 local workers, are on the job. The children ‘s classes are being held in Federated Church and in the high school building.
~ At the Orpheum this week: “Gone with the Wind” in Technicolor starring Clark Gable as Rhett Butler and Vivien Leigh as Scarlett O’Hara.

…Harper’s Index…
1/10: estimated portion of Western recruits in the Islamic State who are women

***NEW***…Murphy’s Real Laws…
34.    I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.
35.    When you go into court, you are putting yourself in the hands of 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Norwegian cross country skier Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset attributed his disappointing silver medal in the 4×10-kilometer relay at the 2010 Winter Olympics to less-than-focused preparation. “I think I have seen too much porn in the last 14 days,” he said.

…Water Facts..,.
~ There are about 100,000 bacteria in one litre of drinking water.
~ A portion of the water you drink has already been drunk by someone else, maybe several times over.

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2 jokes for the day
Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is a husband.
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A woman was waiting in the checkout line at a shopping center. Her arms were laden with a mop and broom and other cleaning supplies. By her hard glances and deep sighs, it was obvious she was in hurry and not a happy camper about the slowness of the line. 
When the cashier called for a price check on a box of soap, the woman remarked indignantly, "Well, I'll be lucky to get out of here and home before Christmas!" 
"Don't worry, ma'am," replied the clerk. "With a good tail wind and that brand new broom you have there, you'll be home in no time." 

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Yep, It Really Happened
BERGEN, Norway (UPI) - Cats and dogs have nothing on this one. Thousands of earthworms rained down on parts of Norway, leaving scientist baffled by the appearance of the slimy invertebrates on snow-covered grounds. Biology teacher Karstein Erstad made the discovery as he was skiing in the mountains outside the coastal city of Bergen. At first he thought they crawled atop the snow from the ground beneath, but then realized the snow was too deep.
"When I found them on the snow they seemed to be dead, but when I put them in my hand I found that they were alive," he said. "In many places, the snow thickness was between half a meter and a meter (1 1/2 feet to 3 feet) and I think they would have problems crawling through the cold snow."
Erstad took a sample to Trond Haraldsen, an environmental expert at the Bioforsk research institute in Norway. "This is a phenomenon we know from the literature, but it is the first time in my time as a scientist that I have got the message that it has happened on the snow, "Haralsen told the Bergens Tidende. Since the incident, reports have come in from other areas of the country as far away as the Swedish border. Experts suggest the worms may have been lifted into the air by a weather system and blown miles from their original location.           
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Somewhat Useless Information
In South Asian weddings, the bridesmaids steal the groom's shoes and hide them on the day of the wedding, forcing him to be shoeless at the reception. The younger crowd gathers to take part in a negotiation of how much money the bridesmaids should get for the shoes. 
In parts of Malaysia, newlywed couples aren't allowed to go to the washroom for three days and nights after their wedding. It's believed that it will bring back luck, such as divorce or infertility. 
In Danish weddings, if the bride or groom leaves the other's side, the remaining spouse gets swarmed with kisses from the wedding party until their better half returns. 
Weddings in Cuba can be difficult to afford. To have enough money for the honeymoon, the guests at the wedding do a money dance. Every man who dances with the bride pins money on your dress.
At Jewish weddings at which the parents' last child is married, a special dance called the Mizinke is performed. The bride and groom give the parents crowns of flowers to wear, and guests make a circle and dance around them, coming forward to wish them 'mazel tov.'
In Yemen, the groom's father throws raisins on the ground for guests to pick up. Raisins are meant to symbolize happiness for the happy couple.

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Birthday’s Today
76 - Lee Majors, [Harvey Lee Yeary], TV actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy)
61 - Michael Moore, filmmaker (Bowling for Columbine, Sicko)
55 - Valerie Bertinelli, actress (1 Day at a Time, Hot in Cleveland)
54 - George Lopez, American actor and comedian
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Remembered for being born today
Max Planck, German physicist\father of Quantum Physics 1858-1947@89 
- John Thomas Romney Robinson, Irish astronomer\physicist 1792-1882@89 
Shirley Temple, actress, child star in the 1930\diplomat 1928-2014@85
James Buchanan, (Fed/Dem), 15th US president 1791-1868@77 
Duncan Renaldo, Spain, actor (Cisco Kid) 1904-1980@76 
Lee (Elizabeth) Miller, Poughkeepsie New York, photographer 1907-1977@70
Sandra Dee, [Zuck], actress (Gidget, Imitation of Life) 1942-2005@62 
Jan Hooks, comedienne actress (SNL, Designing Women) 1957-2014@57 
Halston,[R Halston Frowick],fashion designer(1972 Hall of Fame) 1932-1990@57 
Roy Orbison, Vernon Tx, rocker (Pretty Woman) 1936-1988@52
Stephen A Douglas, (Little giant), US senator (Lincoln debates) 1813-1861@48 
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Historical Obits Today
Otto Preminger, director (Advise & Consent, Anatomy of Murder)-1986@80
William Wordsworth, poet-1850@ 80
Howard Cosell, sportscaster (Monday Night Football), blood clot-1995@77
Boris Yeltsin, first President of the Russian Federation, heart failure, 2007@76
Buster Crabbe, 400m US swimmer (Olympics-gold-1932)\actor-1983@75
James Earl Ray, American assassin, hepatitis C-1998@70
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer (Don Quixote), cirrhosis?-1616@69
Alfred E. Packer, Colorado Cannibal, senility-1907@65
William Shakespeare, English poet and playwright, fever?-1616@52
Saint George, Greek officer in the Roman army, beheaded-303@27
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Brain Teasers Answers
A traffic light.
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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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