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Wednesday, July 20, 2016

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PONDERABLE

"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."

--- Abba Eban (See second article, below )

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Outlook
The Search for Nothing
By Rabbi Yonason Goldson

The more we look for what isn't there, the less we appreciate what we already have

How Peace Actually Happens
Old Mideast foes unite over gas deals, struggle against jihadists
By David Wainer, Jonathan Ferziger & Ahmed Feteha

See today's "Quote of the Day", above

Personal Growth
7 signs YOU are sabotaging your own happiness
By Tana Bolinger

We far too often catch ourselves blaming other people for our mistakes and shortcomings when in fact we ourselves are the ones to blame. Here are 7 signs that you are sabotaging your own happiness

Wellness
Harvard Experts: Why pregnant women should avoid artificially sweetened beverages
By Claire McCarthy, M.D.

The research is counterintuitive but can't be ignored

Wealth Strategies
5 Fidelity Mutual Funds You Can Hold Until You Die
By Kent Thune

Fidelity mutual funds are among the best on the market today, and these excel in the long term

Uplifting
'We had no hope': Baby born with brain outside his skull amazes parents, doctors
By Lindsey Bever

He was born with a rare congenital disorder and wasn't supposed to survive long after birth

Ess, Ess/ Eat, Eat!
The Kosher Gourmet
By Diane Rossen Worthington

Big flavor without additional calories of milk or cream: Refreshing Sorbets are Quick Summer Desserts (2 RECIPES)

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• Lisa Benson

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• Joe Heller

• David Hitch

• Jerry Holbert

• Rick McKee

• Dana Summers

• Gary Varvel

• Michael Ramirez

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On this day in . . .

• 1712, the Riot Act -- the source of the expression "read him the Riot Act" -- takes effect in Great Britain. It authorized local authorities to declare any group of more than twelve people to be unlawfully assembled, and thus have to disperse or face punitive action --- and remained on the statute books until 1973

• 1859, American baseball fans were charged an admission fee for the first time when 1,500 spectators each paid 50 cents to see Brooklyn play New York

• 1861, the Congress of the Confederate States began holding sessions in Richmond, Va.

• 1881, five years after U.S. Army Gen. George A. Custer's defeat at the Battle of Little Bighorn, Sioux leader Sitting Bull surrendered to the army, which promised amnesty for him and his followers

• 1903, Ford Motor Company shipped its first car

• 1921, Congresswoman Alice Mary Robertson, a Republican, became the first woman to preside over the US House of Representatives

• 1933, 200 Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg, Germany and paraded through the streets. ALSO: In London, 500,000 march against anti-Semitism

• 1938, the Justice Department files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of anti-trust law. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948

• 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Hatch Act of 1939, limiting political activity by Federal government employees

• 1942, the first detachment of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps -- later known as WACs -- began basic training at Fort Des Moines, Iowa

• 1944, during World War II: Adolf Hitler , ym"sh, survives an assassination attempt (known as the July 20 plot) led by German Army Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

• 1945, the U.S. flag was raised over Berlin as the first U.S. troops moved in to take part in the post-World War II occupation

• 1946, during World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt is completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces

• 1948, U.S. President Harry S. Truman issues a peacetime military draft in the United States amid increasing tensions with the Soviet Union

• 1949, Israel and Syria sign a truce to end their nineteen-month war

• 1951, while entering a mosque in the Jordanian sector of East Jerusalem, King Abdullah of Jordan is assassinated by ... an Arab. Why? During World War I, with British support, Abdullah led an Arab revolt against Turkish rule in Jordan. In 1921, the British made him the emir of Transjordan, and with Jordanian independence in 1946 he became the country's monarch. Two years later, he led his armies against the newly declared state of Israel, and Jordan annexed East Jerusalem along with the portions of Palestine now known as the West Bank. He intended to create an Arab federation under Hashemite rule. A place that those who would later call themselves "Palestinians" could call their homeland. It wasn't acceptable

• 1953, the United Nations Economic and Social Council votes to make UNICEF a permanent agency

•1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon as they stepped out of their lunar module

•1973, the US Senate passes the War Powers Act. ALSO: Practitioners of that "religion of peace" hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai

• 1976, America's Viking 1 robot spacecraft made a successful, first-ever landing on Mars

•1980, the United Nations Security Council votes 14-0 that member states should not recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

• 1993, White House Deputy Counsel Vincent Foster was found shot to death in a park in northern Virginia. His death was ruled a suicide

• 1994, Israel's Shimon Peres visits Jordan, the highest ranking Israeli official to do so

• 1995, the Regents of the University of California vote to end all affirmative action in the UC system by 1997

• 2000, terrorist Carlos the Jackal, a practitioner of that "religion of peace", sues France in the European Court of Human Rights for allegedly torturing him

• 2001, the G-8 economic summit opened in Genoa, Italy, with raging street battles between police and demonstrators; one protester was fatally shot by officers. ALSO: Ira Einhorn, convicted in absentia of killing his girlfriend, was flown from France and handed over to Philadelphia police

• 2003, former national security adviser Sandy Berger quit as an informal adviser to Democrat John Kerry's presidential campaign after disclosure of a criminal investigation into whether he had mishandled classified terrorism documents. ALSO: The head of slain American hostage Paul M. Johnson Jr. was found in a raid in Saudi Arabia

• 2005, China said it planned to stop tying the value of its currency, the yuan, to the U.S. dollar

• 2006, the Senate voted 98-0 to renew the landmark 1965 Voting Rights Act for another quarter-century

• 2007, U.S. President George W. Bush issued an executive order allowing the CIA to resume some harsh interrogation methods. The practice had been suspended after the U.S. Supreme Court ruling that all U.S.-held detainees must be treated in accord with Geneva Convention restrictions

• 2009, U.S. Barack President Obama's public approval rating for handling healthcare reform dropped to less than 50 percent, a Washington Post/ABC News poll indicated. ALSO: violent crime rates unexpectedly plunged in major cities across the United States, officials said. Washington. New York and Los Angeles led the pack, approaching 40-year homicide lows

• 2011, six Republican presidential hopefuls traded tweets in the first presidential debate conducted through Twitter, outlining their agendas across the popular social media service

• 2012, a gunman set off tear gas grenades and opened fire at a midnight screening of "The Dark Knight Rises" at a theater in Aurora, Colo., killing 12 people and wounding 58. The accused killer, James E. Holmes, later pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity. (He was convicted of the murders in 2015.)

• 2014, pro-Moscow rebels piled nearly 200 bodies from downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 into four refrigerated boxcars in eastern Ukraine, and cranes at the crash scene moved big chunks of the Boeing 777, drawing condemnation from Western leaders who said the rebels were tampering with the site

• 2015, Cuba and the United States restored full diplomatic relations, with the reopening of reciprocal embassies in Havana and Washington. AND: The U.N. Security Council unanimously endorsed a landmark deal that we now know empowers the Iran nuclear program. ALSO: Banks in Greece finally reopened after being closed for three weeks.

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