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July 18, 2017 Week: 29 \ Day: 199
86004 Today: H 86° \ L 53°
Average Sky Cover: 85%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts:
--mph
Nearest Lightning: 3 miles
Visibility: 10 mi
July Averages: 82°\50°
July Records: H: 97° (1973) L: 32 (1955)
Record High:
93°[2005] Record Low: 42°[1940]
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Quote of the Day
We
have, I fear, confused power with greatness.
Stewart
Udall
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Observances Today
National Sour Candy Day Link
Nelson Mandela International Day Link
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Observances This Week
Rabbit
Week: 15-21
Captive Nations Week: 16-22
Everybody Deserves A Massage Week: 16-22 Link
National Parenting Gifted Children Week: 16-22Link
National Zoo Keeper Week: 16-22 Link
National Independent Retailers Week:16-22 Link
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week: 18-25
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Today’s Significant US Historical Events
★ Today’s Significant International
Historical Events
00’s
★64 Great
Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
1700’s
1743 1st
half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1768 Boston
Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song
1800’s
1864 President
Lincoln asks for 500,000 volunteers for military service
★1872 The
Ballot Act introduces the secret ballot in elections in Britain; previously
votes were made openly.
1900’s
★1925 Adolf
Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and
a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")
1940 Democratic
Convention nominates FDR for a 3rd term
1947 US
President Harry Truman signs Presidential Succession Act
1952 KWGN
TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
★1963 Failed
military coup in Syria
★1972 Egyptian
president Anwar Sadat throws out 20,000 Russian military aids
★1994 Comet
Shoemaker-Levy's largest collision with Jupiter leaves black spot 12,000 km
across
1995 "Dreams
from My Father", a memoir by Barack Obama is published by
Times Books
2000’s
★2012 Kim
Jong-un is officially appointed Supreme Leader of North Korea and given
the rank of Marshal in the Korean People's Army
2013 Detroit,
Michigan, files for bankruptcy, becoming the largest US municipal bankruptcy
ever at $18.5 billion
2015 PayPal
is spun off from eBay as a separate publicly traded company on the NASDAQ
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My Rambling Thoughts
What a frustrating day. I called my
blood doc’s office to find out about the CPAP machine issue. The nurse had
promised to call last week, but no big surprise, she didn’t. I let the phone
answerer that I did not appreciate being ignored. She connected with another
nurse who helps out when my Dr.’s nurse is ‘busy’. She had to hear the whole
damn story and promised to call me back in within 2 hours. She did, only to
tell me she was still working on it. Then around noon I get a call from the ‘really’
nurse…the one I’ve been dealing with. She said she finally got to talk to my
Dr. It only took her 3 friggin’ weeks for a 5 minute conversation. She said the
Dr. was not really familiar with the settings and that I should call my PCP. I
let her know how disgusted I was with the office inefficiency and asked her if
she would stand in if I needed another phlebotomy. She apologized and said it
was all on her. So I call my PCP and retell the whole friggin’ story…again. The
nurse says she will call the provider of the machine and get back to me. TEN
minutes later the machine guy calls and says to bring the machine in at 4p and
he will see what he can do to reset it. He probably won’t do anything until my
PCP tells him to, but at least I’m getting somewhere. About an hour later the PCP office called, to check and see if the machine guy had called and to set up a new appointment to 'discuss' my CPAP machine. Seems it will take another sleep study to determine if I even need a machine. Really?!? Find the right people, on
the right day, at the right time, get a little pissed, and everything suddenly
starts working. Life….
No good news on McCain’s return to DC
after his surgery. But, the Dr. won’t let him fly, so he says he is happy to
drive back. Within a few minutes of his press release about driving, the leader
of the senate says they still aren’t ready to put the bill up to a vote.
Another political story falls apart. No surprise.
“Made in America” is off and running.
Wow, none of his daughter’s clothing line, and much of his clothing line is Not
Made in America, but that is not important. Great…we are selling beef to China.
WOW. Stop the presses, pull out the balloons, and start cheering.
Our monsoon was late yesterday, didn’t
start raining until nearly dark and it was just a light rain, but all moisture
is important. And the weatherman is saying it is only going to get better. Of
course it brings new safety concerns about flash flooding. Over the weekend an
entire family of 9 was lost in a popular swimming area when a flash flood came
through the area near Payson. I’ve been close to one flash flood, about 40
years ago, but that was enough for me. When rains come to our area, I am not
going to be found in any slot canyons.
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Today’s Trivia Hive
(answers at the
end of post)
When did LeBron James announce his
return to the Cleveland Cavaliers?
1-Jan-13 15-May-14
11-Jul-14 2-Jun-14
45.0% taking the
internet quiz got it correct.
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Harper’s Index
53→Percentage of Republians who said they prioritized
gun control over gun rights in 1999
26→In
2015
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Birthdays Today
@- indicates age at death
90’s
@-95- Nelson
Mandela,
anti-apartheid
activist, political prisoner (1962-90) and South African President (1994-99),
born in Mvezo, Umtatu, South Africa
(d. 2013)
@-95- John Glenn,
American
astronaut (1st American to orbit the earth) and politician (Senator D-Ohio),
born in Cambridge, Ohio
(d. 2016)
@-91- Hume Cronyn,
actor
(World According to Garp, Cocoon), born in London, Ontario
(d. 2003)
80’s
88- Dick
Totten Button,
figure
skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52), born in Englewood, New Jersey
@-85- S I Hayakawa,
(Sen-R-CA),
educator (Language in Action)
(d. 1992)
@-84- Red Skelton,
[Richard],
Vincennes
Ind, comedian
(d. 1997)
70’s
77- James
Brolin,
actor (Dr
Kiley-Marcus Welby, Peter-Hotel), born in LA, CA
@-76- Chill Wills,
singer and
actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders), born in Seagoville Texas
(d. 1978)
76- Martha
Reeves,
singer
(& Vandellas-Dancing in St), born in Detroit
0’s
@-67- Hunter S. Thompson,
American
journalist and author (Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas)
(d. 2005)
67- Richard
Branson,
British
music entrepreneur (Virgin Atlantic), born in London, England
@-65- Margaret Brown,
Unsinkable
Molly
63- Ricky
Skaggs,
Cordell Ky,
country singer (Heartbroke, Toy Hearts)
50’s
@-59 George
Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes],
American
gangster, born in Memphis, Tennessee
(d. 1954)
53- Wendy Williams,
Talk show
host
50- Vin
Diesel [Mark Sinclair],
American actor
(The Fast and the Furious), born in Alameda County, California
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Historical Obits Today
90’s
@91-2005 William
Westmoreland,
US general
during the Vietnam War
60’s
@69-1997 Eugene
M. Shoemaker,
American
planetary scientist and geologist (Shoemaker-Levy comet), car crash
@66-1872 Benito
Juarez,
Cuban
justice/general (battle of Acapulco), heart attack
40’s
@45-1792 John
Paul Jones,
American
naval commander, interstitial nephritis
@41-1817 Jane
Austen,
English
novelist (Pride and Prejudice), Hodgkin's lymphoma
20’s
@21-1989 Rebecca
Schaeffer,
actress (My
Sister Sam), shot by a fan
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Trivia Hive Answers
11-Jul-14
In Northeast Ohio, nothing is given.
Everything is earned. You work for what you have. I'm ready to accept the
challenge. I'm coming home. LeBron James wrote these words in an open letter -
published in Sports Illustrated - to announce his return to the Cleveland
Cavaliers on Friday, July 11, 2014. He began his NBA career with the Cavs but
infamously "took his talents to South Beach" and joined the Miami
Heat in 2010. An Akron native, James went back to where his professional
basketball career began four years later, so he could bring a long-sought
championship to the city of Cleveland. (And in 2016, he did just that.) Source:
Sports Illustrated
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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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