5-5-15

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Almanac: Week: 19 \ Day: 125
May Averages: 68°\35°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 39° Average Sky Cover: 25% 
Wind ave:   7mph\Gusts:  28mph
Ave. High: 64° Record High:  86° (1947) Ave. Low: 33° Record Low:  18° (1950)
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Observances Today: 
Cartoonists Day                                 Childhood Depression Awareness Day
Childhood Stroke Awareness Day    Children's Day (Japan)
Children's Day (South Korea)           Cinco de Mayo

International Midwives' Day          Liberation Day (Netherlands)
National Day of Prayer                   National Day of Reason
National Hoagie Day                       National Library Legislative Day
National Teacher Day                      Oyster Day
Patriots Victory Day (Ethiopia)     Revenge of the Fifth (Star Wars Sith)
Totally Chipotle Day
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Observances This Week:
1-7 Choose Privacy Week

2-10 National Tourism Week

3-9 Be Kind To Animals Week            National Anxiety & Depression Awareness Week 
Children's Mental Health Week                   National Correctional Officer's Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week  National Family Week
Drinking Water Week                                  National Hug Holiday Week
Dystonia Awareness Week                          National Pet Week 
Flexible Work Arrangement Week               National Post Card Week
Goodwill Industries Week                           National Raisin Week 
Kids Win Week                                           NAOSH Week                                             
Public Service Recognition Week     
National Alcohol & Drug Related Birth Defects Awareness Week

4-10
Children's Book Week                                            PTA Teacher Appreciation Week
National Occupational Safety & Health Week       Screen-Free Week Screen-Free Week 
National Small Business Week                             Teacher Appreciation Week     
National Wildflower Week
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1809 - Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a US patent (weaving straw)
1816 - American Bible Society organized (NY)
1847 - American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1865 - 1st US train robbery (North Bend Ohio)
1877 - Indian Wars: Sitting Bull leads his band of Lakota into Canada
to avoid harassment by the United States Army under Colonel Nelson Miles
1887 - George Hand, a Tucson pioneer, wrote in his diary that an earthquake
  struck southern Arizona causing two-story buildings to sway and
  entire mountain sides to give way in the Catalina Mountains.
1893 - Panic of 1893: Great crash on NY Stock Exchange
1916 - US marines invade Dominican Republic, stay until 1924
1920 - US Pres Wilson makes Communist Labor Party illegal
1920 - Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are arrested on charges
  and robbery of a paymaster at a shoe factory in Massachusetts, US
  - the two men will executed
1925 - John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
1926 - Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for "Arrowsmith"
1941 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert E Sherwood (There shall be no night)
1943 - Postmaster General Frank C Walker invents Postal Zone System
1947 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Robert Penn Warren (All the King's Men)
1952 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Herman Wouk (Caine Mutiny)
1958 - Pulitzer prize awarded to James Agee for (Death in the Family)
1961 - Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1969 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Norman Mailer (Armies of the Night)
1975 - Pulitzer prize awarded to Michael Shaara (Killer Angels)
1987 - Congress begins Iran-Contra hearings
1991 - A riot breaks out in the Mt. Pleasant section of Washington, D.C.
  after a Salvadoran man is shot by police.
1997 - "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
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Today’s World Events through History
1260 - Kublai Khan becomes ruler of the Mongol Empire.
1912 - 5th Olympic games open at Stockholm, Sweden
1930 - Amy Johnson takes off - first woman to fly solo from England to Australia
1941 - Emperor Haile Selassie returns to Addis Ababa
1941 - First modern perfume Chanel No. 5 released.
1944 - Gandhi freed from prison
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Today was the day for my laser treatment for one eye to zap scar tissue after my cataract surgery. I prefer morning appointments, my eye doctor only does these treatments in the afternoon. Our compromise was that I went in at 2:45…he won. Amazing procedure. Sit in a chair, he looks in your eye through a machine and starts playing like an early video game. Zap, Zap-Zap, Zap, etc. After about 10 zaps, he is done. Easy, simple. Not knowing what was happening, I spent most of the day cleaning and straightening the house so I wouldn’t get stressed. Guess it worked, as I think I can see better out of that eye. And the house is much cleaner.
Nice rain on and off today. We certainly need it.
I decided not to pay for the fight on Sat. I did listen to ESPN to get the round by round account. Not the result that I was hoping for, but that’s the boxing game. It will be interesting to see if there is a rematch. If there is, I’m sure I will shell out the bucks to see it, simply because this fight went all 12 rounds. One of the Ali-Frazier fights I watched back in the day was over in the first round.
Cinco de Mayo will be big in Flagstaff. No big plans, but I’m sure I’ll hear the celebrating. For those unfamiliar with the day, it commemorates the Mexican army's unlikely victory over French forces at the Battle of Puebla on May 5, 1862. Mexican Independence Day is Sept. 16.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Fill in the blanks with four words, such that the first and the fourth are the same, while the second and the third are homonyms.

A jailer _ _, and a jeweler _ _.
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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cat Facts…
A fall of 30 feet can be survived by most cats.

When cats are happy, they may squeeze their eyes shut.

…Cool Facts…
Japan has a network of "melody roads" that play music as you drive over them at the correct speed.

Steve Jobs' secretary told him that she was late for work because her car wouldn't start. That very afternoon, Jobs came back and threw her a set of keys to a brand new Jaguar, saying: "Here, don’t be late anymore."

In 2012, a running partner took his runner girlfriend on a run that ended at the place where they first met. When he showed her his GPS tracker, the tracked route read "MARRY ME".

…Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
~ Tommy Serino, having bounced his car against a train that was using the rails at the crossing of San Francisco Street, was brought before Police Judge C. T. Pulliam on a charge of disregarding the railroad crossing and fined $25.
~ The crew from Taylor and Taylor has spent the week working on the problem of the leak in the pipe line to Lake Mary. 77 CCC men have moved to Mormon Lake to provide sufficient help for the Coconino National Forest Nursery tree planting project.
~Ranger Oscar McClure of the Coconino National Forest reported seeing a prowling lion near Fort Tuthill.
~ At the Orpheum, Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio “ full length in Technicolor.

…Harper’s Index…
34-- Factor by which a member of the general U.S. population is more likely than a U.S. prisoner to self-identify as an atheist

…100 People…
If the World were 100 PEOPLE:
50 would be female
50 would be male

…Murphy’s Real Laws…
10.    I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe.

11.    He's not dead.     He's electroencephalographically challenged.

…Unusual Fact of the Day…
“Drag,” in reference to cross-dressing, first appeared in the dictionary in 1870. The term originated in the theater. Men wearing elaborate gowns found that long hems tended to drag on the ground, and eventually referred to any character requiring a dress as a “drag” role.
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2 jokes for the day
Q. What did the digital clock say to the analog clock? 

A. Look, No hands!
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QUESTION: Why did the chicken cross the road? 

Answers:
Pat Buchanan: To steal a job from a decent, hard-working American.
Machiavelli: The point is that the chicken crossed the road. Who cares why? The ends of crossing the road justify whatever motive there was.
Thomas de Torquemada: Give me ten minutes with the chicken and I'll find out.
Timothy Leary: Because that's the only kind of trip the Establishment would let it take.
The Bible: And God came down from the heavens, and He said unto the chicken, "Thou shalt cross the road." And the Chicken crossed the road, and there was much rejoicing.
Fox Mulder: It was a government conspiracy.
Freud: The fact that you thought that the chicken crossed the road reveals your underlying sexual insecurity.
Darwin: Chickens, over great periods of time, have been naturally selected in such a way that they are now genetically predisposed to cross roads.
Richard M. Nixon: The chicken did not cross the road. I repeat, the chicken did not cross the road.
Oliver Stone: The question is not "Why did the chicken cross the road?" but is rather "Who was crossing the road at the same time whom we overlooked in our haste to observe the chicken crossing?"
Jerry Seinfeld: Why does anyone cross a road? I mean, why doesn't anyone ever think to ask, "What the heck was this chicken doing walking around all over the place anyway?"
Martin Luther King, Jr.: I envision a world where all chickens will be free to cross roads without having their motives called into question.
Dirk Gently (Holistic Detective): I'm not exactly sure why, but right now I've got a horse in my bathroom.
Bill Gates: I have just released the new Chicken 2000, which will both cross roads AND balance your checkbook, though when it divides 3 by 2 it gets 1.4999999999.
M.C.Escher: That depends on which plane of reality the chicken was on at the time.
George Orwell: Because the government had fooled him into thinking that he was crossing the road of his own free will, when he was really only serving their interests.
Colonel Sanders: I missed one?
Plato: For the greater good.
Aristotle: To actualize its potential.
Karl Marx: It was a historical inevitability.
B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences, which had pervaded its sensorium from birth, had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would tend to cross roads, even while believing these actions to be of its own freewill.
Jean-Paul Sartre: In order to act in good faith and be true to itself, the chicken found it necessary to cross the road.
Albert Einstein: Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference.
The Sphinx: You tell me.
Buddha: If you ask this question, you deny your own chicken nature.
Emily Dickenson: Because it could not stop for death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson: It didn't cross the road; it transcended it.
Ernest Hemingway: To die. In the rain.
Saddam Hussein: This was an unprovoked act of rebellion and we were quite justified in dropping 50 tons of nerve gas on it.
Saddam Hussein #2: It is the Mother of all Chickens.
Joseph Stalin: I don't care. Catch it. I need its eggs to make my omelet.
Dr. Seuss: Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes the chicken crossed the road, but why he crossed, I've not been told!
O.J.: It didn't. I was playing golf with it at the time.     
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Yep, It Really Happened
Do you remember the scene in the movie Animal House when Boon stuffs Larry 'Pinto' Kroger's pants full of meat at the Food King? Today's story is basically that, except a lot more stupid. 

Florida-A man and woman have been arrested in central Florida after police say they stole more than $300 worth of meat from a grocery store.
Deputies reported that 48-year-old Doris Rowe and 54-year-old Kenneth Edwards drove 26 miles to a Winn-Dixie store in DeLand where a store manager saw Rowe stuffing meat products and other items into her pants.
Deputies say the manager stopped Rowe and she hit the manager in the neck, dropping pork ribs, two packs of detergent and three water filters. Rowe fled the store and got into Edwards' truck. Deputies apprehended them at a traffic stop. Both were charged with grand theft and robbery.
Deputies found ribeye steaks, ground beef, bacon, pork ribs and a gallon of bleach in the car valued at $361. 
No 15-year-old cashiers or middle-aged Deans' wives were molested during or after the incident.           
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Somewhat Useless Information
Not all wines improve with time. In fact, a vast majority of wines produced are ready to drink and do not have much potential for aging. Only a rare few will last longer than a decade.

Red wines are red because fermentation extracts color from the grape skins. White wines are not fermented with the skins present.
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Birthday’s Today
88 - Pat Carroll, Shrevport La, comedienne/actress (Make Room for Daddy)
85 - Will Hutchins, Atwater California, actor (Sugarfoot, Hey Landlord)
72 - Michael Palin, comedian (Monty Python, Fish Called Wanda)
56 - Brian Williams, newscaster
34 - Danielle Christine Fishel, Mesa AZ, actress (Topanga-Boy Meets World)
27 - Adele [Adele Laurie Blue Adkins], English singer (Someone Like You)
26 - Chris Brown, American R&B singer
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Remembered for being born today
Ann B Davis, American actress (Alice-Brady Bunch) 1926-2014@88 
Arthur Leonard Schawlow, American physicist, pioneering lasers1921-1999@77 
John Batterson Stetson, American hat manufacturer 1830-1906@75 
Charles Bender(Ojibwe), only American Indian in baseball's Hall of Fame 1883-1954@70 
Karl Marx, philosopher (Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital) 1818-1883@64 
Nellie Bly, [Elizabeth Cochran Seaman], journalist and writer 1865-1922@57
Tammy Wynette [Virginia Pugh], country singer 1942-1998@55
Tyrone Power, Cleve, actor (Mark of Zorro) 1913-1958@44 
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Historical Obits Today
Claude Choules, last surviving World War I veteran-2011@110
Robert Mylne, Scottish architect (Blackfriars Bridge)-1811@78
Joseph Albert, German photographer (Albertotype)-1886@61
Ben Alexander, actor (Frank Smith-Dragnet), natural causes-1969@57
Napoleon Bonaparte, French emperor,  cancer?suicide?-1821@51
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Brain Teasers Answers
A jailer watches cells, and a jeweler sells watches.
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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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