8-20-15

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Almanac: Week: 34 \ Day: 232
August Averages: 78°\50°
86004 Today: H 86° \ L 52° Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave:   9mph\Gusts:  27mph
Ave. High: 79° Record High: 88°[1949] Ave. Low: 49° Record Low: 35°[1979]
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Observances Today:
Earth Over Shoot Day or Ecological Debt Day Link
International Homeless Animals Day and Candlelight Vigils
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Observances This Week:
15-21 National Aviation Week

18-24 Minority Enterprise Development Week


19-23 National Massage Therapy Week

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Quote of the Day 

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US Historical Highlights for Today
1619 - 1st known African Americans (appox. 20) land at Jamestown Virginia aboard Dutch vessel then sold or traded into servitude for supplies
1775 -The site of the Presidio de San Augustin de Tucson was selected and laid out by Lt. Colonel Don Hugo O'Conor of the Royal Spanish Army.
1856 - Wilberforce University forms in Ohio
1864 - 8th/last day of battle at Deep Bottom Run Va (about 3,900 casualties)
1865 - President Andrew Johnson proclaims an end to "insurrection" in Texas
1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declares US Civil War over
1896 - Dial telephone patented
1920 - 1st US commercial radio station, 8MK (WWJ), Detroit begins daily broadcasting
1955 - 1st airplane to exceed 1800 mph (2897 kph)-HA Hanes, Palmdale Ca
1974 - Nelson Rockefeller selected US Vice President by President Ford
1982 - US marines land in Beirut Lebanon
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World Historical Highlights for Today
1000 - The foundation of the Hungarian state, Hungary is established as a Christian kingdom by Stephen I of Hungary
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie reaches Blair Castle, Scotland
1882 - Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture" opens in Moscow
1900 - Japan's primary school law is amended to provide for four years of mandatory schooling
1905 - Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary, forms the first chapter of T'ung Meng Hui, a union of all secret societies determined to bringing down the Manchus
1908 - Congo Free State becomes Belgian Congo
1913 - 1st pilot to parachute from an aircraft (Adolphe Pégoud, France)
1955 - Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco & Algeria
1965 - Rolling Stones release their single "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (their 1st #1 US hit) in the UK
1968 - During the night 20,000 Warsaw Pact Soviet led troops begin to invade Czechoslovakia in response to the Prague Spring
1990 - Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations (human shields)
1993 - Mother Teresa hospitalized with malaria
1998 - The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
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Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today 

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My Rambling Thoughts
A dry and warm day. Breeze helps a lot. Humidity is at a whopping 9% so it is a dry heat.
This morning’s paper said that the work on 89 will cause only minor delays today, so I did go out and do some shopping. The paper was right. No problems.
Our retirement group is going to Ricki and the Flash before we go to lunch. Should be enjoyable.
We do need a constitutional amendment…but it is not about citizenship…it is about National Elections. Presidential candidates will be able to campaign for no more than 60 days before an election. Party conventions may be held no more than one week before campaigning begins and that is the first time anyone knows who wants to run. Senators, Representatives, and state elected offices will be able to campaign no more than 30 days before an election. Primaries for state offices may be held no more than one week before campaigns can begin. No campaigning for a primary more than one week before the primary election. Probably won’t work but anything is better than all the campaigning we listen to or ignore now.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
There are two groups of four-letter words used in the sentences below. The first missing words of each sentence are anagrams of each other, and the second missing words are also anagrams of each other. Can you find them?

1. The ______ gender of this king of animals has an astounding _____ of hair around his regal and fearful face.

2. That's a ______ excuse, you cannot get away without giving us the _____ of the person who helped you in this theft.

3. Before each ______, it is customary to say Grace and end with _______.

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Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Flagstaff, AZ History…
100 YEARS AGO-1915
Fifty-one Normal School summer students assembled at the depot on Saturday morning, where they were taken by special car to Bellemont. There they were met by Mr. August Lindstrom with the crew of a logging train to take them on to the logging camp. They scrambled on, the engine gave a whistle and away they went through the beautiful pine woods. They arrived at the main camp about noon and were invited to join the loggers at dinner. And what a dinner, the table fairly groaned with good food. Then they were shown around the camp and watched the skilled men working the giant logs.

Weather permitting the Ladies Aid Society will serve ice cream and cake on the courthouse lawn Saturday from 4 to 10 p.m.
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…Harper’s Index…
38 – percentage of European investors who believe that the euro zone will break up with the next year
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…Instagram Photo of the Day… 

Natgeo Scottish Moments: Morning mists rising off the moors near Scourie in northwest Scotland.
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…Foreigners Find These American Customs Offensive…
3. Throwing a thumbs up
In a lot of countries, especially in the Middle East, Latin America, Western Africa, Russia and Greece, a thumbs up basically has the same meaning as holding up a middle finger does for Americans.
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…Nelson Mandela Inspiring Quote …
·        “Where you stand depends on where you sit.”
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…USA Facts…
Every month, about 9 out of 10 American children visit a McDonald’s restaurant.

In 2005, 25 percent of Americans over the age of 50 played video games, an increase from nine percent in 1999.
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…Unusual Fact of the Day…
In the Roman Empire, going blonde wasn’t exactly a fashion statement. At the time, light-colored hair was associated with the barbarian women of Gaul and Germany who often ended up as slaves in brothels. Consequently, Roman law required all prostitutes to dye their hair blonde in order to distinguish themselves from “proper,” dark-maned ladies.
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2 jokes for the day
A neutron walks into a bar.
"I'd like a beer," he says.
The bartender promptly serves up a beer.
"How much will that be?" asks the neutron.
"For you?" replies the bartender, "no charge

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A man enters his local bar holding a frog and an iguana.
He sets them down on the bar and says to the bartender, "I bet you $1000 that my frog here can sing any song you can think of."
"Ok," says the bartender. "How 'bout 'Blue Moon'?"
The man whispers something to the frog, and the frog starts singing blue moon.
"That's amazing," says the bartender as he slaps down $1000. "I'll bet ya another $1000 that my iguana here can do that to."
"Ok, I can believe a frog, but not an iguana. You're on.
Have him sing the Star Spangled Banner." The man whispers something to the iguana and it sings the Star Spangled Banner.
As the bartender hands over another $1000, a businessman comes up and says, "I just saw that and I was amazed. I want to buy your iguana for $100,000."
The man said ok, and he exchanged the iguana for the money and the businessman left.
The bartender said "What are you nuts?! You could have made millions with that iguana!"
The man said "Oh, the iguana can't sing. The frog's a ventriloquist."          

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Yep, It Really Happened
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - A 43-year-old former flight attendant was arrested Friday on charges he pretended to be a medical doctor and psychologist, allegedly treating more than 100 patients from his basement apartment for the past three years. Donald Lee-Edwards, of New York, never graduated medical school or earned a doctoral degree to be licensed for either profession, Acting Richmond County District Attorney Daniel Master said. But he prescribed patients medications and took blood and urine samples, investigators said. "He merely bestowed upon himself the professional titles of clinical psychologist and medical doctor," Master said. "He is neither trained nor licensed to provide any mental health or medical services." Prosecutors said Lee-Edwards had been seeing patients since 2013, billing himself as having worked "extensively with family members and victims of 9/11," although it was unclear if he actually did. Lee-Edwards' attorney Matthew Blum said there is no evidence he ever harmed anyone. "They're alleging he was some sort of doctor who was operating on people," Blum said. "They're turning this guy into a monster. He was really just trying to help some people in his community." Investigators said Lee-Edwards came to the attention of law enforcement after a patient became suspicious of his unorthodox bedside manner, talking about other patients, bragging he graduated high school at age 13 and saying he attended law school.
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Somewhat Useless Information
Current expenditures for public elementary and secondary schools are projected to be $634 billion for the 2015-16 school year. These expenditures include such items as salaries for school personnel, benefits, student transportation, school books and materials, and energy costs. The current expenditure per student is projected at $12,605 for the 2015-16 school year. (AZ spends $7208)
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About 3.3 million students are expected to graduate from high school in 2015-16, including 3 million students from public high schools and about 0.3 million students from private high schools.
The percentage of high school dropouts among 16-through 24-year-olds declined from 10.9 percent in 2000 to 6.8 percent in 2013. Reflecting the overall decline in the dropout rate between 2000 and 2013.

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Birthdays Today
“()” indicates age at death
  84 - Don King, boxing promoter
  80 - Ron Paul, US Congressman, 1988 and 2008 presidential candidate
(69) - Alan Reed, actor (Mr Adams & Eve)/voice (Fred Flintstone) d. 1977
(67) - Benjamin Harrison, North Bend Ohio, (R) 23rd Pres d. 1901
  67 - Robert Plant, rock vocalist (Led Zeppelin-Whole Lotta Love)
(65) - Isaac Hayes, Covington TN, composer (Shaft) d.2008
(66) - Salvatore Quasimodo, Naples, poet/critic/translator (Nobel 1959) d. 1968
(64) - Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia\Yugoslavia (1997-2000) d.2006
(64) - Bernardo O'Higgins, Chile, South American independence leader who freed Chile from Spanish rule d. 1842
  61 - Al Roker, Queens NY, weatherman (NBC, Today)
(56) - Jacqueline Susann, Phila Pa, author (Valley of the Dolls), d. 1974
(46) - H. P. Lovecraft, American horror writer (Weird Tales) d. 1937
(40) - Jim Reeves, US country singer/actor (Gun Fury, Kimberley Jim) d.1964
  23 - Demi Lovato, American Actress
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Historical Obits Today
Phyllis Diller, comedienne and actress-2012@95
Leona Helmsley, American hotel operator and real estate investor-2007@87
Anne Hutchinson, English Puritan preacher, killed in uprising -1643@52
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Brain Teasers Answers
1. The MALE gender of this king of animals has an astounding MANE of hair around his regal and fearful face.

2. That's a LAME excuse, you cannot get away without giving us the NAME of the person who helped you in this theft.

3. Before each MEAL, it is customary to say Grace and end with AMEN.

Anagram groups -
Group 1 : MALE, LAME, MEAL
Group 2 : MANE, NAME, AMEN

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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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