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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #15 on: August 12, 2015, 02:21:04 AM »
In 1978, Pope Paul VI, who had died August 6 at age 80, was buried in St. Peter's Basilica.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #16 on: August 12, 2015, 02:21:28 AM »
In 1981, IBM introduced its first personal computer, the model 5150, at a press conference in New York.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #17 on: August 12, 2015, 02:21:54 AM »
In 1994, Woodstock '94 opened in Saugerties, New York.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #18 on: August 12, 2015, 02:22:34 AM »
Ten years ago: A NASA spacecraft, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, began a seven-month voyage to the Red Planet. Sri Lanka's foreign minister (Lakshman Kadirgamar), an ethnic Tamil, was shot to death by snipers in Colombo.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #19 on: August 12, 2015, 02:23:03 AM »
Five years ago: General Motors Co. chief Ed Whitacre announced he was stepping down as CEO on September 1, 2010, saying his mission was accomplished as the company reported its second straight quarterly profit. (Whitacre was succeeded as CEO by GM board member Daniel Akerson.)

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #20 on: August 12, 2015, 02:23:32 AM »
One year ago: Steve Ballmer officially became the new owner of the Los Angeles Clippers; the sale closed after a California court confirmed the authority of Shelly Sterling, on behalf of the Sterling Family Trust, to sell the franchise. (Her husband, Donald Sterling, had unsuccessfully fought the sale of the team he owned since 1981 in court.) Lauren Bacall, 89, the slinky, sultry-voiced actress who created on-screen magic with Humphrey Bogart in "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep" and off-screen magic in one of Hollywood's most storied marriages, died in New York.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #21 on: August 12, 2015, 02:24:04 AM »
Today's Birthdays: Former Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., is 90. Actor George Hamilton is 76. Actress Dana Ivey is 74. Actress Jennifer Warren is 74. Rock singer-musician Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits) is 66. Actor Jim Beaver is 65. Singer Kid Creole is 65. Jazz musician Pat Metheny is 61. Actor Sam J. Jones is 61. Actor Bruce Greenwood is 59. Country singer Danny Shirley is 59. Pop musician Roy Hay (Culture Club) is 54. Rapper Sir Mix-A-Lot is 52. Actor Peter Krause (KROW'-zuh) is 50. Actor Brent Sexton is 48. International Tennis Hall of Famer Pete Sampras is 44. Actor-comedian Michael Ian Black is 44. Actress Yvette Nicole Brown is 44. Actress Rebecca Gayheart is 44. Actor Casey Affleck is 40. Rock musician Bill Uechi (Save Ferris) is 40. Actress Maggie Lawson is 35. Actress Dominique Swain is 35. Actress Leah Pipes (TV: "The Originals") is 27. Actress Imani Hakim is 22.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #22 on: August 12, 2015, 02:24:36 AM »
Thought for Today: "The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself." – From "Of Human Bondage" by W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965).
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #23 on: August 12, 2015, 02:25:17 AM »
The Trouble With Email
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It's wise to remember how easily email can be misused, sometimes unintentionally, with serious consequences.

Consider the case of the Illinois man who left the snow-filled streets of Chicago for a vacation in Florida. His wife was on a business trip and was planning to meet him there the next day. When he reached his hotel, he decided to send his wife a quick email.

Unfortunately, when typing her address, he missed one letter, and his note was directed instead to an elderly preacher's wife whose husband had passed away only the day before. When the grieving widow checked her email, she took one look at the monitor, let out a piercing scream, and fell to the floor in a dead faint.

At the sound, her family rushed into the room and saw this note on the
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Dearest Wife, Just got checked in. Everything prepared for your arrival tomorrow.

P.S. Sure is hot down here.

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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2015, 03:02:15 AM »
Time to hit the road for work, enjoy your day guys.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #25 on: August 12, 2015, 05:00:06 AM »
Sheesh X 2.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #26 on: August 12, 2015, 05:51:51 AM »
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #27 on: August 12, 2015, 06:43:14 AM »
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #28 on: August 12, 2015, 06:43:52 AM »
Workaference time for me, not that anyone is here.  Have a great day guys.
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Re: 8/12/2015
« Reply #29 on: August 12, 2015, 06:48:11 AM »
Good morning Chip...and only Chip
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