5-13-15

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Almanac: Week: 20 \ Day: 133
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 73°\L 33° Average Sky Cover: 50% 
Wind ave:   11mph\Gusts:  30mph
Ave. High: 67° Record High:  83° (1984) Ave. Low: 35° Record Low:  18° (1953)
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Observances Today:
Blame Someone Else Day
Donate A Day's Wages To Charity
Frog Jumping Day
Leprechaun Day
National Night Shift Workers Day
National Third Shift Workers Day
Receptionist’s Day
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Observances This Week: 10-16
American Craft Beer Week           National Transportation Week
Food Allergy Awareness Week               National Women's Health Week
National Bike to Work Week                   Neuropathy Awareness Week

National Hospital Week                Reading is Fun Week 
National Etiquette Week               Salute to Moms 35+ Week

National Nursing Home Week                 Salvation Army Week
National Police Week                            Universal Family Week

National Return To Work Week               Work At Home Moms Week
National Stuttering Awareness Week
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1846 - US declares war on Mexico, 2 months after fighting begins
1865 - Battle of Palmito Ranch, near Brownsville, Texas: final engagement
  of the American Civil War
1884 - Institute for Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms in New York
1916 - 1st observance of Indian (Native American) Day
1923 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Willa Carter (One of Ours)
1929 - Barney Oldfield, famous racing driver, narrowly escaped death
  when his car overturned on the highway near Winslow AZ
1947 - US Senate approved the Taft-Hartley Act limiting the power of unions
1950 - Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1958 - Rioters attack US VP Richard Nixon in Venezuela
1958 - The trade mark Velcro is registered
1982 - Braniff Airlines files for bankruptcy
1992 - 3 astronauts simultaneous walked in space for the 1st time 
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Today’s World Events through History
1110 - Crusaders march into Beirut causing a bloodbath
1568 - Mary Queen of Scots is defeated by English at battle of Langside
1607 - English colonists, led by John Smith, land near James River in Virginia
1614 - Viceroy of Mexico finds Spanish Explorer Juan de Oñate guilty of
  atrocities against the Indians of New Mexico. As a part of his
  punishment, he is banned from entering New Mexico again
1637 - Cardinal Richelieu of France reputedly creates the table knife
1777 - University library at Vienna opens
1830 - Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1917 - 1st appearance of Mary to 3 shepherd children in Fatima, Portugal
1940 - Winston Churchill says I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears & sweat
1981 - Pope John Paul II is shot and critically wounded by Turkish gunman
  Mehemet Ali Agca in St Peter's Square, Vatican City
2012 - Torrential rain in Hunan Province, China, destroys a bridge,
  3,500 homes and displaces 28,000 people
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
A little windy here today…but such is spring in our little mountain town.
Ran errands and ran into a colleague from Shonto. She is meeting another colleague tonight at 5 so I will be joining them. Catch up on old times.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Below are definitions of words (with the length of the word in parentheses), followed by a clue for a broken version of the word. For example:

PONDERING (8)...Monarch after dieting.
Would result in the word "THINKING", which could be broken into "THIN KING".

Can you decipher the five words below?

1. Certain Evening (9)...Tiny chess piece
2. Deed Subjects (10)...Cravats that are suitable
3. Ne'er-do-well (11)...Onion performing hip-hop music

4. Hawaiian person, eg. (8)...Confessions of a scandalmonger
5. Buddhist belief (13)...Flower adorning a horse's bridle

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cat Facts…
The cat brain weighs about 30g.

Cats and dogs can hear ultrasound.

…Cool Facts…
PornHub planted 15,473 trees in honor of their "PornHub Gives America Wood" environmental campaign.

In Iceland, more books are published and sold per person every year than anywhere else in the world. Ten percent of Icelanders become a published author in their lifetime.

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO-1965
DAR Speaker Miss Ruby Kohn spoke at the meeting held in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Runkle on “Urban renewal, its failures and its follies” Her main point is “Think before you accept federal aid to improve your city. Consider the extravagance, favoritism and misuse of power that have beleaguered urban renewal elsewhere.”

…Harper’s Index…
$7,000- Amount the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, has spent to appeal a $37.50 campaign-violation fine levied against its mayor

…100 People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
87 would have access to safe drinking water
13 people would have no clean, safe water to drink

…Revisited History…
The calculator you used to play classic arcade games in the back of class was about six times more powerful than the computer that landed on the moon. 

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Had the Duke of Edinburgh not changed his surname in order to marry the future Queen Elizabeth II, he and his wife would be known today as Phil and Betty Glucksberg.
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2 jokes for the day
At school one morning the teacher asked little Johnny what he had for breakfast. 

Little Johnny said, "Well, on my way to school I come cross this Apple tree, so I climbed up there and started eating apples." 

"I guess I eat about six," said little Johnny.

"No," said the teacher, "it's ate!" 
Little Johnny said "Well it could've been eight, I don't remember."

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At a party of professionals, a Doctor was having difficulty socializing. Everyone wanted to describe their symptoms, and get an opinion about diagnosis. The Doctor turned to a Lawyer acquaintance, and asked, "How do you handle people who want advice outside of the office?" 

"Simple," answered the Lawyer, "I send them a bill. That stops it." 

The next day, the Doctor, still feeling a bit reserved about what he had just finished doing, opened his mailbox to send the bills; there sat a bill from the Lawyer.         

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Yep, It Really Happened
Washington Post -Already, healthy people can donate blood, sperm and eggs, but now the nonprofit OpenBiome offers donors $40 for bowel movements -- to supply "fecal transplants" for patients with nasty C. difficile bacterial infections. ("Healthy" contents are transplanted into the infected gut via endoscope or frozen swallowed capsules so that the good bacteria drive out the antibiotic-resistant bad.) Over 2,000 transplant units have been shipped to 185 hospitals so far, and OpenBiome allows daily "donations" so that, with bonuses, a donor could earn $13,000 a year. However, extensive medical questioning and stool-testing is required, and only about 4 percent of potential donors have exquisite-enough feces to qualify.           
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Somewhat Useless Information
In an average lifetime, people spend approximately 2,100 days (almost 6 years) dreaming. Everyone dreams every night, though some of us can't remember our dreams.

Developmental psychologists say that toddlers never dream about themselves. Children are not believed to appear in their own dreams until a developmental stage that occurs when they are three or four years old and realize they are separate from other people.

What is the purpose of dreams? Some experts speculate that the primitive part of the brain is overloaded during the day and cannot process all of our experiences. Dreaming gives us a way to sort through our memories and eliminate the ones that aren't useful for our growth.

Color in dreams is a constant source of speculation. Some monochrome dreams can have a single image that's in color, such as a bright pink poodle. Other dreams seem to speak a language of colors (e.g., red or blue lights) and shapes (repeated circles or squares). Sometimes, natural colors pervade the dream, as in waking life.

In the late 1950s, scientists proved that external stimuli can be incorporated into dreams. When researchers sprinkled water on sleeping volunteers and woke them up seconds later, 14 out of 33 subjects said they had dreamed of water.

It is believed that we rarely feel pain in dreams. When we do, though, our bodies perceive it as a signal that something is wrong and we react by waking up.

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Birthday’s Today
78 - Roch Carrier, Sainte-Justine Quebec, Canadian novelist (The Hockey Sweater)
76 - Harvey Keitel, actor (Taxi Driver, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs)
65 - Stevie Wonder, Saginaw, Michigan, American singer-songwriter
59 - Sri Sri Ravi Shankar, Founder of the Art of Living Foundation
54 - Dennis Rodman, Trenton, New Jersey, NBA forward (Chicago Bulls)
51 - Stephen Colbert, American comedian and actor
29 - Robert Pattinson, English actor (Harry Potter, Twilight)
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Remembered for being born today
Daphne du Maurier, English writer (Rebecca, Parasites) 1907-1989@91
Bea Arthur, comedian\singer\actress ("Maude", "Golden Girls") 1922-2009@86
Jim Shoulders, Champion rodeo cowboy 1928-2007@79
Josephine Elizabeth Butler, social reformer 1828-1906@78 
Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek Dr.-inventor of the Pap smear 1883-1962@78
Joe Louis, world heavyweight boxing champion 1914-1981@66 
- Arthur Seymour Sullivan, composer (Gilbert & Sullivan) 1842-1900@58 
Mary Wells, singer (My Guy)1943-1992@49 
Jim Jones, US Leader of Peoples Temple cult (Jonestown Massacre) 1931-1978@47
Ritchie Valens, singer (Donna, La Bamba) 1941-1959@17
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Historical Obits Today
Joyce Brothers, American psychologist-2013@85
Cyrus Hall McCormick, American inventor (mechanical reaper), stroke-1884@75
Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie), pneumonia-1975@70
Fridtjof Nansen, Arctic explorer/diplomat (Nobel 1922), heart attack-1930@68
Frank McGrath, actor (Wagon Train), heart attack-1967@64
Selma Diamond, comedienne (Selma-Night Court), cancer-1985@64
Gary Cooper, 2 time Acad award winning actor (High Noon), cancer-1961@60
Dan Blocker, American actor (Hoss-Bonanza), blood clot-1972@43
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. WEEKNIGHT...WEE KNIGHT
2. PROPERTIES...PROPER TIES
3. RAPSCALLION...RAP SCALLION
4. ISLANDER...I SLANDER
5. REINCARNATION...REIN CARNATION

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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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