4-24-15

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Almanac: Week: 17 \ Day: 114
April Averages: 58°\27°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 29° Average Sky Cover: 15% 
Wind ave:   10mph\Gusts:  25mph
Ave. High: 61° Record High:  77° (1949) Ave. Low: 29° Record Low:  10° (1900)
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Observances Today:
Arbor Day
Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day
National Hairball Awareness Day
National Teach Your Children To Save Day
New Kids on The Block Day
Pig in a Blanket Day
Satchmo Days
World Meningitis Day
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Observances This 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
Fiddler's Frolic
National Tattoo Week
US Film Festival

23-25
Gathering of the Nations Powwow
24-30
Interstate Mullet Toss
National Dance Week
National Dream Hotline
National Scoop The Poop Week

24-26
Just Pray No! Worldwide Weekend of Prayer
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1704 - "Boston News-Letter" 1st successful newspaper in US, forms
1800 - Library of Congress establishes with $5,000 allocation
1865 - Fire alarm & police telegraph system put into operation (SF)
1867 - Black demonstrators stage ride-ins on Richmond Va streetcars
1880 -St. Mary's Hospital in Tucson was opened by the Sisters of St. Joseph
1888 - Eastman Kodak forms
1897 - 1st reporter, William Price (Wash Star), assigned to White House
1907 - Hersheypark, founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use
  of his employees, is opened.
1908 - Mr & Mrs Jacob Murdock become 1st to travel across US by car,
  they leave LA in a Packard & arrive in NYC in 32d-5h-25m
1923 - General harbor strike begins in NYC
1944 - United Negro College Fund incorporates
1954 - 1st American, civilian pilot, P.R. Holden, wounded in Indochina
1961 - JFK accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1965 - NY Met Casey Stengel wins his 3,000 game as manager
1967 - Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland says in a
  news conference that the enemy had "gained support in the United States
  that gives him hope that he can win politically that which he cannot win
  militarily."
1985 - Pulitzer Prize awarded to Carolyn Lizer for "Yin"
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Today’s World Events through History
1479 BC - Thutmose III ascends to the throne of Egypt, although power
         effectively shifts to Hatshepsut 
1184 BC - The Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
1066 - Halley's Comet sparks English monk to predict country will be destroyed
1596 - Pacificatie of Ireland drawn
1880 - Amateur Athletic Association, governing body for men's athletics
  in England & Wales, is founded in Oxford, England
1914 - A shipment of 35,000 rifles and 5 million rounds of ammunition are
  landed at Larne for the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF, an Ulster loyalist
  paramilitary group in Northern Ireland
1916 - Easter Rising of Irish republicans against British occupation begins in Dublin
1953 - Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1969 - Paul McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead
1969 - Loyalist members of the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) and the
 Ulster Protestant Volunteers (UPV) explode a bomb at a water pipeline
 between Lough Neagh and Belfast, Northern Ireland
1982 - 150 Khomeini followers assault student dormitory in West Germany
1990 - Gruinard Island, Scotland, is officially declared free of the anthrax
  disease after 48 years of quarantine.
1993 - The IRA explodes a 1000kg car bomb in Bishopsgate, London,
  killing a news photographer and injuring 44 others
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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 a good lunch with Mary. Afterwards we took a little drive in her new Honda. NICE! Amazing technology…rearview camera when car put in reverse, L and R camera comes on when turn signal is turned on. Bluetooth, easy to do hands free calls, other technology she hasn’t figured out yet. Key not needed to open door, start car as long as key fob is within 36” of the car. Lots of room for a small car. Good purchase. Mary also got a call from her daughter this morning. They had signed papers for n $800K house in Portland. The inspector says that it needs $20K in work before it can be occupied. If the seller doesn’t drop the price by that much, they will be starting all over in their search for a house. Bummer. They had planned to move to Portland as soon as school is out in Chicago.
Called Cheryl last night and she had a great trip to CA. She will hook up with us again next week.
As I watch the demonstrations in Baltimore today and other protest in the past few months regarding police brutality, it is finally reminding me of the demonstrations on my college campus after Kent State. I was at several of those demonstrations and am reminded all these years later, of ‘mob mentality’. While the demonstrations I was around did not lead to any major injuries or deaths, there were a few times when action and reaction could have easily led to something more violent. Each time it happens almost instantaneously with neither side expecting it. So glad I was not involved in any serious violence and hope that Baltimore can remain the same.
The demonstrations after Kent State certainly were a turning point in the Viet Nam war. I hope that all these demonstrations regarding police brutality will lead to a revamping of our entire police system around the country where there are so many officers and police administrators have allowed so much violence against those that are stopped, detained, and arrested with almost no repercussions when the arrested person is injured or killed.   
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill in the blanks below with three 4-letter words that are anagrams of each other (they all contain the same four letters):

"The man ____ ____ of money because he couldn't walk away from the ____ machines."

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO - 1965
~ The Chamber of Commerce is protesting the new entry fee to the Grand Canyon of 50 cents per day per person, or $2 per season pass. Camping permits are now $2.50 per week. It went into effect today under the 1964 Land Act.
~ Flagstaff Television and Cable Co. is making modifications in its equipment to allow reception of five FM stations. They’ll be available on a subscription basis.
~ Smoke Rise Valley Homes are now available at between $13,750 and $18,650 with no down payment under the Veterans Administration plan or with a very low minimum with an FHA loan.

…Harper’s Index…
15: Percentage of the US population that the average American says is Muslim
1: percentage that actually are

…Murphy’s Real Laws…
32.    Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter since nobody listens. 
33.    I wished the buck stopped here, as I could use a few. 


…Unusual Fact of the Day…
The very first TV commercial was for Bulova watches in 1941, and it aired in the middle of a pro baseball game between the Dodgers and Phillies. The spot cost nine dollars.

…Water Facts..,.
~ The Kangaroo Rat can last longer without water than a camel.
~ Approximately 60% of the water used by households during the summer is used for watering flowers and lawns.

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2 jokes for the day
Why were Star Wars Episodes 4, 5, and 6 released before 1, 2, and 3?

Because in charge of scheduling, Yoda was.

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Yep, It Really Happened
AMARILLO, Texas (UPI) - A California woman broke her own world record by eating three steak dinners -- 13.5 pounds of steak plus sides -- in less than 20 minutes at a Texas event. Competitive eater Molly Schuyler, a 124-pound mother of four, downed three 72-ounce steak dinners, which each came with a baked potato, a shrimp cocktail and a side salad, to take the top spot Sunday at the The Big Texan Steak Ranch's Big Texas Steak Challenge in Amarillo. Schuyler downed two of the meals in less than 15 minutes last year, so the restaurant gathered four teams of two people to face off against Schuyler, who ate solo. Schuyler came in first, with a finish of less than 20 minutes. "They would have had to eat their half in like four minutes," Schuyler told the Amarillo Globe-News of her competitors. "If you're not used to doing this, four minutes is hard." The eatery said Schuyler set a world record last year when she finished her first steak dinner in 4 minutes, 58 seconds, and she broke her own record Sunday by finishing off her first meal in 4 minutes, 18 seconds. "I come in thinking I'm going to fail, but you know if I win it's a lovely parting gift and that's cool. I also get free steak so I don't really lose," she told KFDA-TV. Organizers of the competition said Schuyler's feat will be submitted to Guinness World Records. 
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Somewhat Useless Information
As humans we don’t have any memories since our time as fetuses in our mother’s womb. But does the same thing apply for butterflies too?
Butterflies remember their days as a caterpillar.
Despite going into a completely liquified state during metamorphosis, the neurons for their brain stay arranged as such to allow for the memories to stay intact.
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Birthday’s Today
81 - Shirley MacLaine, Richmond Va, actress/mystic (Irma la Douce)
73 - Barbra Streisand, Brooklyn singer/actress/award winner (People)
60 - Michael O'Keefe, NJ, actor (Caddyshack, Ironweed)
51 - Cedric the Entertainer, comedian and actor
38 - Eric Balfour, actor (24, Haven)
33 - Kelly Clarkson, singer\winner of the inaugural American Idol
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Remembered for being born today
Robert Penn Warren, 1st US poet laureate (All the King's Men) 1905-1989@84 
Edmund Cartwright, England, cleric, inventor (power loom) 1743-1823@80 
Vincent de Paul, French saint 1581-1660@79 
John Russell Pope, US, architect (Jefferson Memorial) 1874-1937@63 
Jill Ireland, actress (Breakout, Assassination) 1936-1990@54 
John Graunt, statistician, founder of science of demography 1620-1874@53 
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Historical Obits Today
Estée Lauder, American cosmetics entrepreneur-2004@95
Wallis Simpson [Duchess of Windsor], King Edward VIII abdicated-1986@89
Bud Abbott, comedian (Abbott & Costello), stroke-1974@79
Daniel Defoe, English novelist (Robinson Crusoe)-1731@70ish
Pat Paulsen, comedian (Smothers Brothers Show), cancer-1997@69
Tommy Noonan, actor (Gentlemen Perfer Blondes), brain tumor-1968@46
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Brain Teasers Answers
The letters L-O-S-T

Blank 1: LOST
Blank 2: LOTS
Blank 3: SLOT

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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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