7-26-15

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Almanac: Week: 30 \ Day: 207
July Averages: 82°\50°
86004 Today: H 85° \ L 52° Average Sky Cover: 20% 
Wind ave:   4mph\Gusts:  21mph
Ave. High: 82° Record High: 92° (1935) Ave. Low: 51° Record Low: 40° (1913)
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Observances Today:
All or Nothing Day
Aunt and Uncle Day
Aunties Day
One Voice-to amplify Israel and Palestine voices
Paddle for Perthes Disease Awareness Day
Parents' Day

Ratification Day (New York-1788-11th to ratify constitution)
Independence Day (Liberia-1847 from American Colonization Society)
Independence Day (Maldives-1965 from UK)
National Day (Cuba-1953 rebellion)
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Observances This Week:
AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week ->8/1 
Garlic Days ->26   
Hemingway Look-alike Days ->26 
National Moth Week ->26 
National Parenting Gifted Children Week ->26
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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1579 - Francis Drake leaves San Francisco to cross Pacific Ocean
1775 - United States Post Office (U.S.P.O.) created in Philadelphia under Benjamin Franklin
1835 - 1st sugar cane plantation started in Hawaii
1844 - Mariano Samaniego, southern Arizona freighter, cattleman and operator of the stage line from Tucson to Oro Blanco, who became a citizen of the United States under the terms of the Gadsden Purchase, was born
1848 - 1st Woman's Rights Convention (Senecca Falls NY)
1878 - In California, the poet and American West outlaw calling himself "Black Bart" makes his last clean getaway when he steals a safe box from a Wells Fargo stagecoach. The empty box will be found later with a taunting poem inside.
1903 - 1st automobile trip across the United States (SF-NY) completed
1908 - United States Attorney General Charles Joseph Bonaparte issues an order to immediately staff the Office of the Chief Examiner (later renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigation).
1917 - J. Edgar Hoover gets job in US Department of Justice
1926 - National Bar Association incorporates
1946 - President Harry Truman orders desegregation of all US forces
1947 - National Security Act establishes CIA
1953 - Arizona Governor John Howard Pyle orders an anti-polygamy law enforcement crackdown on residents of Short Creek, Arizona, which becomes known as the Short Creek Raid.
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Western Golf Open
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World Historical Highlights for Today
  657 - Battle of Siffin during the first Muslim civil war between Ali ibn Abi Talib and Muawiyah I beside Euphrates River
1519 - Francisco Pizarro receives royal charter for the west coast of South America
1529 - Francisco Pizarro appointed governor of Peru
1656 - Dutch painter Rembrandt van Rijn declares he is insolvent
1803 - The Surrey Iron Railway, arguably the world's first public railway, opens in south London.
1805 - Naples/Calabria struck by Earthquake; about 26,000 die
1858 - Baron Lionel de Rothschild becomes first Jewish person elected to British Parliament
1865 - The capital of New Zealand moves from Auckland to Wellington
1887 - 1st Esperanto book published
1953 - Fidel Castro begins rebellion, the "26th of July Movement," against Fulgenico Batista's regime
2005 - Mumbai, India receives 99.5cm of rain (39.17 inches) within 24 hours, bringing the city to a halt for over 2 days.
2014 - The Chinese government suspends the operations of a Shanghai meat dealer and has makes arrests after the company sold out-of-date meat to fast food chains, including McDonalds and Kentucky Fried Chicken
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
Great day, but no rain…clouds looked promising but no such luck.
Watching our President’s trip…so exciting to see him in Kenya and soon Ethiopia. I’ve been to many of the places he is visiting. His trip is helping educate our citizens and the world that Africa is a continent and Kenya and Ethiopia are two of its 54 countries. He is also bringing along very rich people who he hopes will bring business and trade to these two countries. Very cool!
Email…Hillary…gov’t rules. This issue is not going to help her campaign. When I was a Federal worker, I worked a lot with ‘Personnel’ on issues regarding the employees I supervised. I had a real government e-mail address as well as private email addresses. When a ‘sensitive’ matter was involved—like disciplinary action—all the backup documentation as well as the proposals and final action could not be emailed to another office…everything had to be faxed. Both ends would have appreciated email since all our information was on computers. But both ends had to print out the documents, fax them on a secure fax line, and destroy the print outs. When a final decision was issued, the letter was faxed, retyped by the secretary and given to me. She destroyed the fax. The letter was issued, the employee signed it and the original had to be mailed by USPS certified mail with signature to be filed at the other end. It seemed a little crazy, but that’s what we did.  When Hillary took the job as Sec. of State, she knew the rules and chose not to follow them. The idea that her ‘personal server’ was OK is just stupid. When her lapse to rules was discovered, she could have saved herself lots of headaches by simply turning over the server. By not doing that she left herself open to continuing questions. She is not above the law. Sadly until the server is turned over, there will continue to be conspiracy theories that will never go away, no matter what the outcome of the political election.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Inside each set of the following words, there are a pair of smaller words. By putting & between them, lo & behold, you'll make a familiar phrase. For example, "Thighbone/Swallowtail" conceals "High & Low."

1. Gulliver/Clearness
2. Tragicomedy/Pentagon
3. Chinchilla/Magdalene
4. Terrestrial/Ecoterrorist
5. Thundershower/Intellectual

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Cool Facts…
Mackinac Island, Michigan, has banned cars since 1898!

Genghis Khan exempted the poor and clergy from taxes, encouraged literacy, and established free religion, leading many peoples to join his empire before they were even conquered.
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The last obstacle to the widening of Butler Avenue from 40 feet to 72 feet has been resolved. The city will pay the appraised value of $60,000 to the county, which will vacate their annex and relocate it to temporary quarters in the old Jamison Henderson Building located just west of the intersection with Enterprise.

Achievement tests show that Flagstaff students rate well above in both the state and the national averages. Assistant Superintendent Lee Hager says both the students and our city should be proud of their achievement.

On Friday the Two Guns Trading Post, which has been vacant and heavily vandalized for about five years, was allowed to burn the ground by the Doney Park firefighters as a cost-saving measure. Arson is suspected.
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…Harper’s Index…
8 – number of years in the past decade in which the violent-crime rate in the US has fallen
10 –in which the majority of Americans have believed that the crime rate is on the rise
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**NEW**… Life Lessons…
1. Critical Information
"A man is getting into the shower just as his wife is finishing up her shower, when the doorbell rings. The wife quickly wraps herself in a towel and runs downstairs. When she opens the door, there stands Bob, the next-door neighbor.
Before she says a word, Bob says, 'I'll give you $800 to drop that towel.'
After thinking for a moment, the woman drops her towel and stands naked in front of Bob. After a few seconds, Bob hands her $800 and leaves..
The woman wraps back up in the towel and goes back upstairs. When she gets to the bathroom, her husband asks, ' Who was that?'
'It was Bob, the next door neighbor,' she replies.
'Great,' the husband says, 'did he say anything about the $800 he owes me?'
Moral of the story: If you share critical information pertaining to credit and risk with your shareholders in time, you may be in a position to prevent avoidable exposure."
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…USA Facts…
In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.

The Statue of Liberty is made out of copper. When originally built, it looked like a shiny new penny!
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
Napoleon wasn't short. At 5 feet, 7 inches, he was taller than the average French man of the era. The popular myth about his height is the result of his nickname, Le Petit Caporal (The Little Corporal). Early in Napoleon’s military career, French soldiers used the moniker to mock his low position on the Army’s Officer totem pole. Unfortunately for Napoleon, the nickname stuck.
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2 jokes for the day
Herds of elephants from all over Africa were summoned to a meeting in the jungle, as their national leader took his place on the stage, one of the African elephants trumpeted impatiently:
“Come on, tell us what this is all about. We’re all ears.”

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An inebriated man and his drunken friend were sitting at a bar.
“Do you know what time it is?” Asked the drunk.
“Sure,” said the man
“Thanks,” said the drunk.  

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Yep, It Really Happened
WINTER HAVEN, Fla. (UPI) - Police are working to identify a Florida man who apparently knocked himself out for a few seconds by head-butting a bus out of anger over a $2 fare. The Winter Haven Police Department, which posted video of the incident to its Facebook page, said the man got off the bus about 11:35 a.m. Saturday when it arrived at its stop. Police said the man told the driver he wanted to go to another location, and he became "extremely agitated" when the driver told him it would be an additional $2 fare to travel to the other location. The driver locked the bus and went inside the enclosed part of the bus terminal, leaving the passenger sitting alone on a bench. The man walked away, but returned to the still-locked bus four minutes later. The video shows the man get a running start before head-butting the door of the bus, shattering a glass window. The man falls to the ground and appears to be knocked out for a few seconds before collecting himself and running away. "File this under what NOT to do when you get mad regarding bus fare -- ouch," police wrote on Facebook.         
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Somewhat Useless Information
Returns tomorrow
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Birthdays Today
96 - Marjorie Lord [Wollenberg], actress (Make Room for Daddy)
72 - Mick Jagger, English, rock vocalist (Rolling Stones)
70 - Helen Mirren [Ilyena Lydia Vasilievna Mironoff], English actress (The Queen)
56 - Kevin Spacey, South Orange NJ, actor (Dad, Henry & June, Darrow)
51 - Sandra Bullock, Wash DC, actress (Speed, Net, Love & War)
50 - Jeremy Piven, American actor and producer (Entourage, Serendipity)
42 - Kate Beckinsale, British actress
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Born this day…Died in __@__
George Bernard Shaw, dramatist (Pygmalion-Nobel 1925)-1950@94
Blake Edwards, writer/director (10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's)-2010@88
Carl Jung, Swiss Psychiatrist (founded analytic psychology)-1961@85
George Catlin, US, author/painter (American Indian scenes)-1872@76
George Clinton, NY, 4th VP (1805-12)-1812@72
Vivian Vance, actress (Ethel Mertz-I Love Lucy) 1979@70
Stanley Kubrick, Bronx NY, director (2001, Dr Strangelove, Lolita)-1999@70
Aldous Huxley, English author ('Brave New World', 'Island')-1963@69
Gracie Allen, Mrs George Burns/comedian (Burns & Allen)-1964@69
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Historical Obits Today
Sally Louisa Tompkins, American nurse and philanthropist, only commissioned woman in US Confederate Army-1916@82
George Gallup, pioneer of public opinion polls-1984@82
Ed "Psycho" Gein, mass murderer ("Psycho" & "The Texas Chain Saw Massacre" based on him), cancer-1984@77
JJ Cale, American rock guitarist (Tulsa Sound), heart attack-2013@74
Sam Houston, 1st President of Republic of Texas, pneumonia-1861@70
William Jennings Bryan, lawyer (Scopes-monkey trial), heart attack-1925@65
Mary Wells, US soul singer (My Guy), cancer-1992@49
Eva Perón [Evita], Argentine First Lady and actress, cancer-1952@33
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. Live & Learn
2. Come & Go
3. Hill & Dale
4. Trial & Error
5. Show & Tell

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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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