7-12-15

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Almanac: Week: 29 \ Day: 193
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 82° \ L 48° Average Sky Cover: 40% 
Wind ave:   5mph\Gusts:  25mph
Ave. High: 83° Record High:  94° (2002) Ave. Low: 50° Record Low:  39° (1952)
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Observances Today:
Different Colored Eyes Day
Pecan Pie Day
Simplicity Day
Taos Pueblo Pow Wow
Wayne Chicken Days

Independence Day (Kiribati-1979 from UK)
Ramadan (Islam)
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Observances This Week:
Nude Recreation Weekend: 6-12 
Creative Maladjustment Week: 7-14  
Sports Cliché Week: 12-16 (Always Week of Maj. League Baseball)
Comic Con International: 9-12

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1775 - A part of a legislative bill allocates $500 to Dartmouth College, in New Hampshire, to be dedicated to the education of Indian youth.
1843 - Mormon leader Joseph Smith says God allows polygamy
1862 - Congress authorizes Medal of Honor
1878 - Fever epidemic in New Orleans begin, it will kill 4,500
1882 - 1st ocean pier in US completed, Washington, DC
1909 - 16th Amendment approved (power to tax incomes)
1917 - Nearly 1200 Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) strikers were rounded up and deported from Bisbee, AZ by county officials and citizen posses. Strikers were held at the ballpark in Bisbee until a special train of 24 cattle cars
1928 - 1st televised tennis match
1933 - Congress passes 1st minimum wage law (33 cents per hour)
1951 - Mob tries to keep black family from moving into all-white Cicero Ill
1954 - President Eisenhower put forward a plan for an interstate highway system
1957 - 1st President to fly in helicopter-Dwight Eisenhower
1973 - A fire destroys the entire 6th floor of the National Personnel Records Center of the United States.
1974 - John Ehrlichman convicted of violating Daniel Ellsberg's rights
1984 - Geraldine Ferraro, NY becomes 1st woman major-party VP candidate
1996 - Michael Jordan signs a NBA contract for 1 year for $25 million
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Today’s World Events through History
1902 - Australian parliament agrees to female suffrage
1913 - 150,000 Ulstermen gather and resolve to resist Irish Home Rule by force of arms; since the British Liberals have promised the Irish nationalists Home Rule, civil war appears imminent
1962 - 1st time 2 manned crafts in space (USSR)
1969 - As the 'marching season' reaches its height there is serious rioting in Derry, Belfast and Dungiven; many familles in Belfast are forced to move from their homes
1970 - Thor Heyerdahl crosses Atlantic on raft Ra II, arrives in Barbados from Morocco in 57 days
1990 - In Soweto, South Africa, Shanty town women strip to the waist and confront bulldozers sent by authorities to demolish their homes
1998 - Pres. Nelson Mandela accompanies Queen Elizabeth II on a coach drive through the streets of London
2013 - Malala Yousafzai addresses the United Nations and calls for worldwide access to education
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Nice Saturday in our little mountain town.,,a bit windy, but still nice. Looked like a monsoon rain might help us out, but alas, just a dream.
So, The Trump is coming to Phx. When he planned the trip, he was going to the Biltmore Resort. As it got closer his minions moved the venue to the Phx Convention Center…a city owned property. The Maricopa Board of Supervisors became sorta concerned, issuing statements about how it was a public meeting place and they believe in the 1st Amendment, but wondered how to show that just because he was speaking there, it does not mean that Phx, Maricopa County, or AZ is supporting his run for President. It will be interesting to see what this does to the Trump campaign.
Back in February, the local paper had a story about an elderly woman…all of 66…had hit in killed a 3 year old boy in a well-marked crosswalk at a shopping mall parking lot. The little boy was holding his mother’s hand who was also hit and a sibling who was also hit. She was not ticketed or arrested, according to the police, because it was on private property and not on a public street. There was quite an outcry from the Native community as the family was Navajo and the driver was not. This death has been very disturbing to much of our little mountain town. Yesterday the city attorney filed manslaughter charges against the driver. The wheels of justice move slow. It is a sad comment, but in my opinion, had the driver been Native and the victim family been Anglo, there would have been an arrest at the scene. Reading the posts on the local paper’s website, is even more disturbing. A few people commented that while it was a tragedy; the poor woman will have to live the rest of her life knowing she killed a little boy; a charge of manslaughter seemed over the top. Really?!? These idiots would most certainly be singing a different tune had the races been reversed.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
I can run swiftly and silently when you want me to stay still,
I can move slowly and cautiously and am yours to fill.
You look at me often and yet you always forget me,
I am the most feared killer, yet you can't live without me.
Sometimes you have me for all to spare,
Yet when you need me, I am not there.
You can waste me, or cherish me, you choose the track,
But once you're done you can never get me back.

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Self-made millionaire Harris Rosen adopted a Florida neighborhood called Tangelo Park, cut the crime rate in half, and increased the high school graduation rate from 25% to 100% by giving everyone free daycare and all high school graduates scholarships.

Holding hands with someone you love can alleviate physical pain as well as stress and fear.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
Mountainaire has instituted extreme water-saving measures due to its severe shortage by shutting the water off to 1,000 residences between 10 p.m. and 5:30 a.m. every other day until the monsoon comes. Walt Brown, who owns the system, says this crisis points up the need for an extra pump and a larger storage system, since residents are using more water than the current facilities can generate.

Hoot Owl fire restrictions are in place on the Kaibab Forest and the Bill Williams watershed is closed due to the dry conditions, the low humidity and above average temperatures.
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…Harper’s Index…
11.7 – factor by which the annual number of US measles cases has increased since 2013
1/3 – portion of CA children between the ages of 1 and 3 who are insufficiently immunized, accord to the CDC
53  - percentage of Americans who believe that vaccines are safe and effective
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… Relationship Facts…
40% of people who are rejected in romantic love slip into clinical depression.

It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Only about one-fifth of the world's largest desert, the Sahara, is covered with sand; the remainder is made up of rock formations.
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2 jokes for the day
Which fish can perform operations?
A Sturgeon.

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At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal."
Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
Not only that, but....
Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car.
Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT".
But, then you would have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened. 

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Yep, It Really Happened
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (UPI) - The real-life version of Sharknado proved to be far less threatening than its Syfy counterpart when a small shark fell from the sky into a Virginia back yard. Sue Bowser of Virginia Beach said her grandchildren found the 13-inch dogfish shark, also known as a sand shark, dead near a pond in her back yard about two weeks ago. "This could be the shark house, but hopefully not too many more will be falling from the sky," Bowser told WAVY-TV. "The kids found it, and they came upstairs and they were all excited and said, 'We found a shark in the backyard.'" Bowser said she suspects the baby shark was the victim of an osprey that lost its lunch. "There's a little mark on his side where the talons probably went in, and it's a little bloody on the side where the talons had poked him," she said. Susan Barco, research coordinator and senior scientist with the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center Foundation, said it would not be unusual for an osprey to grab a dogfish shark pup from the shallow waters where they are born. Bowser said she is keeping the shark frozen as an object of curiosity. "I would like to preserve the shark because a lot of people have asked about it and I think it's just so unique," she said.          
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Somewhat Useless Information
Returns tomorrow
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Birthdays Today
78 - Bill Cosby, Phila, actor/comedian (I Spy, Cosby)
64 - Cheryl Ladd, Huron SD, actress (Charlie's Angels, Purple Hearts)
37 - Topher Grace, actor (That 70’s Show)
18 - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize recipient
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Born this day…Died in __@__
Milton Berle, Harlem comedian (Uncle Miltie, Mr Television)-2003@93
R Buckminster Fuller, architect/inventor (geodesic dome)-1983@87
Curly Joe DeRita, American actor and comedian-1993@83
Beah Richards, Vicksburg MS, actress/playwright (Big Shot)-2000@80
Van Cliburn Jr, [Harvey Lavan], La, pianist (Tchaikovsky 1958)-2013@78
Louis B. Mayer, film producer\creator of the star system (MGM)-1957@73
Oscar Hammerstein II, lyricist who worked with Richard Rodgers-1960@65
Henry David Thoreau, naturalist/pacifist (Walden Pond)-1862@44
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Historical Obits Today
D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar-1966@96
Sherwood Schwartz, Television Writer (Gilligan, Brady Bunch)-2011@94
Dolley Madison, 4th First Lady-1849@81
John Chancellor, news anchor (VOA, NBC), cancer-1996@68
Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Wolfman), long illness-1973@66
Robert Henri, US painter (The Eight), cardiac arrest-1929@64
Tony Snow, press secretary for George W. Bush, cancer-2008@53
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Brain Teasers Answers
Time
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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.

§…And That Is All for Now…§

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