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Flagstaff
Almanac…
Week: 37 / Day: 258 Today: High
70°…Low 55°
Records: High
89°(1990)…Low 26°(1952)
Averages: High
74°…Low 43°
Wind: average: 3mph; Gusts: 23mph
Today’s average humidity: 73%
Quote
of the Day…
Today’s Historical
Highlights…
2001 - Historic
National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for
victims of
the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on
Parliament
Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital
1994 - All
28 baseball owners vote to cancel rest of 1994 season
1975
- Rembrandts "Nightwatch" slashed & damaged in Amsterdam
1953 - Nikita
Khrushchev appointed First Secretary of the Communist Party of
the Soviet Union
1960 - Chubby Checker's "Twist" hits #1
1752 - US
& England adopts Gregorian calender (no Sept 3-Sept 13th)
1716 - 1st
lighthouse in US lit (Boston Harbor)
♪ Happy Birthday To: ♪..
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free
Rambling Thoughts…
Our retirement group had a great lunch in downtown Flagstaff
today. A nice little restaurant called Altitudes. Great waiter, excellent food,
nice ambiance. We were going to eat outside, but there was a chilly wind. It’s
been there a few years, after the Feed Store moved out. Cheryl will be heading
to CA next week to visit her son and his family, Mary is busy working on quilts
and doing her CASA work. She can’t really talk about the CASA work, but what
she can say makes it sound very interesting. Child custody is such a difficult
subject.
The Middle East is certainly in the news, and not much is good.
Tomorrow will be a big day as it is the Day of Prayer and demonstrations are
common after Prayers. It sounds like the police have identified the movie
maker, a Coptic who spent time in prison for fraud and a meth lab. He is in
hiding and since he has over a dozen alias, he will be hard to locate. From my
point of view, when he redubbed the movie into Arabic and got it on TV in
Egypt, he did the same thing as yelling ‘fire’ in a crowded theater and should
be held accountable. His hate against Muslims is still not known, but certainly
that will be another part of the story.
Game Center: (answers at the end of post)
What
is the rhyming answer?
Answer
the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If
only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g.
voodoo)
lepidopteran [cooking] stock (4,5)
Rebus…
Can you figure
out what this means?
Lifestyle Substance…
Do you
remember this?
Read
This Headline Carefully!!
Typhoon Rips Through Cemetery; Hundreds Dead
Do
you know what this word means?
What
is this not so common name of a common object?
Quinquagenarian
Whitewater
Fun…
Great
Scenes in Musical Movie History…:
Girl Hunt…The Band Wagon (1953)
Harper’s
Index…
Percentage of African countries in which the median age is 20 or younger: 75
Unusal
Fact of the Day…
The sex of an alligator hatchling is dependent on the temperature of the nest during the incubation period. Typically temperatures above 91.4°F produce all males and anything lower than 86° that produces all females.Found on You Tube…
Opec--50 years later
Joke-of-the-day…
A poet and a scientist were traveling together on a plane. The scientist was bored and said to the poet, "Hey, you, do you want to play a game? I'll ask you a question, and if you get it wrong, you give me $5. Then, you ask me a question, and if I can't answer it, I'll give you $5." The poet thought about this for a moment, but he decided against it, seeing that the scientist was obviously a very bright man. He politely turned down the scientist's offer. The scientist, who was really bored, tried again. "Look, I'll ask you a question, and if you can't answer it, you give me $5. Then you ask me a question, and if I can't answer it, I'll give you $50." The poet agreed. "Okay," the scientist said, "what is the exact distance between the Earth and the Moon?" The poet, obviously not knowing the answer, didn't stop to think about the scientist's question. He took a $5 bill out of his pocket and handed it to the scientist. The scientist happily accepted the bill and promptly said, "Okay, now it's your turn." The poet thought about this for a few minutes, then asked, "All right, what goes up a mountain on three legs, but comes down on four?" The bright glow quickly vanished from the scientist's face. He thought about this for a long time, taking out his notepad and making numerous calculations. He finally gave up on his notepad and took out his laptop, using his Multimedia Encyclopedia. As the plane was landing the scientist gave up. He reluctantly handed the poet a $50 bill. The poet accepted it graciously, getting ready to stand up. "Wait!" the scientist shouted, "you can't do this to me! What's the answer?" The poet looked at the scientist and calmly put a $5 bill into his hand.
Rules
of Thumb…
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
DESIGNING ROCKET FUELS--A rule of thumb is that for every ten-percent increase in efficiency for rocket fuel, the payload of the rocket can double.
Yeah,
It Really Happened…
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. - Organizers of the Sioux Falls Marathon in South Dakota said they disqualified a runner as the winner after realizing he only ran half the race. The Sioux Falls Argus Leader reported that while Olok Nykew, 37, a St. Paul, Minn., resident who is originally from Sudan, crossed the finish line first Sunday morning, officials determined he had run the half-marathon course, not the full 26.2-mile marathon course. The companion events followed separate, but sometimes overlapping, routes through the city before ending at the same spot. The marathoners wore black numbers and the half-marathoners wore red. Nykew who came in 25 minutes faster than the event's record, was wearing a black number but finished among runners wearing red ones. "He registered for the marathon and ended up running the half and came in 25 minutes before the record," assistant race director Jason Richards told the newspaper. "They figured it out and disqualified him." Nykew expressed confusion and said he realized when he reached the finish line so quickly something must have gone wrong. "I thought, what is this? When I got there, I thought it was not long enough. I'm thinking I'm not cheating. I was just confused. It was an honest mistake," he said. The real winner was Justin Gillette, 29, of Goshen, Ind., who broke the event record he set last year with a time of 2 hours, 30 minutes and 10 seconds.
Somewhat
Useless Information…
- Pinball machines and video games were banned in New York City from 1942 until 1976. The city's lawmakers felt they were nothing more than gambling devices that owed more to luck than to skill.
- The only positive aspect of the 1979 film flop Tilt that critics could find was the then-groundbreaking "point of view" photography from the inside of a pinball machine.
- The sequence makes sense. First there were the arcade video games Pac-Man and Ms. Pac-Man, then a pinball machine called "Mr. and Mrs. Pac-Man. The next natural step was the 1982 hybrid known as Baby Pac-Man, which was half video game and half pinball machine.
- A pinball machine provides a great example of chaos theory's "butterfly effect." A seemingly unnoticeable variation in the speed or angle of a particular flipper movement can completely alter the result of the game.
- The tilt feature that keeps players from over-manipulating a pinball game by using too much "body English" was originally called stool pigeon.
- While Elton John played a specially constructed machine for his role as the Pinball Wizard in the 1975 film Tommy, Roger Daltrey unleashed his supple wrist on a classic Gottleib game called Kings and Queens.
Calendar
Information…
Happening This Week:
9-13:Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week / National
Assisted Living Week / National Historically Black Colleges &
Universities Week / Suicide Prevention Week / Line Dance Week
Today
Is…
National Kreme Filled Donut Day
Stand Up To Cancer Day
Nicaragua: Battle of San Jacinto Day (1856)
Today’s
Events Through History…
1900’s
1982 - 36"
snow (Red Lodge, MT)
1968
- 1st broadcast of "60 Minutes" on CBS-TV
1965 - "F-Troop"
premieres
1960
- Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi-Arabia & Venezuela form OPEC
1948
- Milton Berle starts his TV career on Texaco Star Theater
1933 - 2
billion board feet of lumber destroyed in Tillamook Oregon fire
1930
- Nazis gain 107 seats in German election
1800’s
1848 - Alexander
Stewart opens 1st US dept store
1700’s
1777 -
Spanish Governor Galvez issues an act, in New Orleans. He orders the military,
and Spanish subjects to "respect the rights of these Indians in the lands
they
occupy and to protect them in the possession thereof."
1741 - George
Frederick Handel finishes "Messiah", after working on it non-stop for
23 days
1726 -
Land cession agreement is reached by representatives of Great Britain and
the
Cayuga, Onondaga and the Seneca Indians.
1600’s
1682 - Bishop
Gore School, one of the oldest schools in Wales, founded
1607 - Flight
of the Earls from Lough Swilly, Donegal, Ireland
Today’s
Birthdays…
Under 30
Jesse James, American actor [As Good as It
Gets] is 23
In their 40’s
Faith
Ford, actress (Another World, Corky-Murphy Brown) will be 48
In their 50’s
Mary
Crosby, actress (Kristin-Dallas, Ice Pirates) is 54
In their 60’s
Jon "Bowser" Bauman, Queens NY,
singer (Sha Na Na) is 65
Sam Neill,
Northern Ireland, actor (Jurassic Park, Dead Calm, Piano) is 65
In their 70’s
Walter
Koenig, actor (Checkov-Star Trek) is 74
Remembered for
being born today
Lord Cecil
of Chelwood, UK, help form League of Nations (Nobel 1937) b. 1864
Clayton
Moore, Chicago Illinois, American actor [Lone Ranger] b. 1914
Ivan
Pavlov, Russia, physiologist/pioneer in psychology (Nobel 1904) b. 1849
Albert
Shanker, American labor leader (Amer Fed of Teachers) b. 1928
Amy
Winehouse, Southgate, London, singer ("Stronger Than Me, Rehab) b.
1983
Today’s
Historical Obits…
Dante
Alighieri, Italian poet (Divine Comedy)—malaria--1321-- at 56
Mohammed
Abdul Hakim Amer, Egyptian vice-PM—suicide after
failed coup—1967--at 47
Aaron
Burr, 3rd VP—1836—at 80
James
Fenimore Cooper, author [The Last of the Mohicans]—dropsy—1851—at 61
Isadora
Duncan, dancer--scarf became entangled in her car's wheel—1927—at 50
Janet
Gaynor, silent film actress (Sunrise)--traffic accident—1984--at 77
Henry
Gibson, American actor and songwriter [Laugh In]—cancer—2009—at 73
Grace
Kelly, princess of Monaco, actress--car crash—1982--at 52
Pres
William McKinley, 25th President of US--gunshot wounds—1901--at 58
Jody
Powell, American press secretary to Jimmy Carter—heart attack—2009—at 65
Juliet
Prowse, actress/dancer (Mona McCluskey)-- pancreatic cancer—1996--at 59
Beah
Richards, actress of stage, screen [Hurry Sundown] and
television [Cosby]—2000—at
80
Patrick
Swayze, American actor, dancer, and songwriter--
pancreatic
cancer—2009—at 57
Answers…
Do you know what
this word means?
The category you fall into at 50. Your tricenarian and vicenarian decades will be forgotten dreams.
What is the answer?
Moth broth
Rebus
To err on the right side
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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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.
☺ And
That Is All for Now ☺
