8/9/13


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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 32/ Day: 221   
Today: H 76°L 45°
Wind: ave:   5mph; Gusts:  20mph  Ave. humidity:  68%
Average Low      Average High
50°                       81°    
Record Low      Record High
39° (1950)          90° (1980)
Quote of the Day



Today’s Historical Highlights
1st horses arrive in Hawaii…1803
1st person, Usain Bolt, to win the 100m and 200m sprint in back to back Olympics…2012
1st state-wide, state-supported educational TV network, Alabama…1956
25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain…1992
Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes…1930
Columbia returns to Boston after 3 year journey, 1st ship to carry US flag around 
     the world…1790
Construction of the Tower of Pisa begins, and it takes two centuries to complete…1173
Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics…1936
Jonas Bronck of Holland becomes 1st European settler in Bronx…1638
Opening of the Sistine Chapel…1483
Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres…1974
Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire prevention…1944
US-Canada border defined by Webster-Ashburton Treaty…1842
US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki…1945

 Today’s Birthdays:    
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays



My Free Rambling Thoughts   
A nice lunch with Cheryl, her sister and Mary. Her sister is visiting from Ann Arbor. Tomorrow they head for CA to see Cheryl’s son and his family. Then she leaves on Tuesday back to Ann Arbor. She has Cheryl’s sense of humor and is having a good time in AZ. Mary is spending the weekend in Flag as her husband is running a 1/2 Marathon on Saturday. She had some cute pics of her grandkids and three of the four are off to school.
 
Big puffy clouds with very dark bottoms are surrounding us right now. I’m sure there will be rain sometime tonight. It chilled off enough last night that I had to almost close my bedroom window. Then I woke up at 2:30 because it was too hot. It is time to clean my deck again as all this rain has dropped a lot of pine cones and pine needles…green ones…onto the deck. Won’t take too long to clean it up.
 
What a shock…Dr. Sanjay Gupta has been researching marijuana studies and made some interesting discoveries. He apologized for his anti-weed statements in the past and said that his problem was that he had just been looking at studies that were anti-marijuana. His new belief is that the majority of the studies used flawed assumptions at the beginning of their studies. Hmmmm. He is not saying that it should be available over the counter, but does believe that it has definite medical advantages and should no longer be listed as more dangerous than alcohol.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
I can be repeated,
But often not in the same way.

I can't be changed,
But can be rewritten.

I can be forgotten,
And can also be lost with death.

My first is in horses,
But not in ponies.

My last is in pretty,
But not in beautiful.

What am I?
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Hmmmm…Tongue Twisters
H     
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.

Ever wonder where the name came from?
Sharp
The Japanese LCD TV giant took its name from one of its first ever products - the Ever-Ready Sharp propelling pencil (later the Ever-Sharp pencil), which made its debut in 1916. The company was originally named Hayakawa Brothers Shokai, partly after Tokuji Hayakawa who had invented the pencil in 1915. Sharp first moved into consumer electronics in 1925 when the company began mass-producing crystal radios - the first Japanese manufacturer to do so.
Ok, then?



Harper’s Index    
Amount NIH has awarded in grants since 2011 to study the correlation between obesity and homosexuality: $1,520,000
Songs with Double Meanings:
Happiness Is A Warm Gun - The Beatles  Key Triple Lyric of song: "Happiness, is a warm gun, bang bang shot shoot!" (1) The "warm gun" is a firearm, such as a revolver, after being discharged; (2) A "warm gun" means the person just shot up heroin with a needle; (3) Main/real meaning: It's about love making. The "warm gun" is the male penis.
Hey Jude - The Beatles  Key Double Lyric of song: "The minute you let her under your skin then you begin to make it better".  For years most Beatle fans believed this song was about heroin addiction, and "letting her under your skin" was about shooting up HThat wasn't the caseThe song, written by Paul McCartney, was written for John Lennon's preteen son Julian, after his parents broke up. Perhaps the false story about it being about H was because McCartney never told anybody for years, other than John, what the song was really about. Anyway, this is not a true double meaning lyric.
Unusual Fact of the Day
Al Capone's business card reportedly said he was a furniture salesman.
Joke-of-the-day
Two men are drinking in a bar. One turns to the other and says, "I bet you $100 that I can bite my eye."
The second fellow thinks to himself, I guess he's had about enough, so he replies, "OK, you're on."
The first man takes out his glass eye and bites it. So the second man has to pay. Awhile later the first man says, "I bet you $100 I can bite my other eye."
The second man thinks, well, he can't have TWO glass eyes; he obviously can see. So he says, "All right, you're on."
The second man promptly takes out his false teeth and bites his other eye.
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SALARY IN CENTS PER MINUTE
An employee's salary in thousands of dollars per year is roughly equal to their salary in cents per minute (subtracting holidays and vacations).   
Yeah, It Really Happened
BRINDISI, Italy - Italian authorities said thieves used a bulldozer to break into a supermarket and escape with safes filled with money. Investigators said the masked thieves used trucks to block off access to the rear of the supermarket in Brindisi when it was closed overnight and the bulldozer crashed through the gate and metal door to get to the room where the safes were kept, ANSA reported Monday. The truck drove off with the safes, which were believed to contain more than $132,000, police said. Police said the incident was recorded by security cameras, the Italian news agency said.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  •  
  • By 1850, the manual coffee grinder found its way to most upper middle class kitchens of the U.S.
  • Caffeine is on the International Olympic Committee list of prohibited substances. Athletes who test positive for more than 12 micrograms of caffeine per milliliter of urine may be banned from the Olympic Games. This level may be reached after drinking about 5 cups of coffee.
  • Citrus has been added to coffee for several hundred years.
  • Coffee as a medicine reached its highest and lowest point in the 1600's in England. Wild medical contraptions to administer a mixture of coffee and an assortment of heated butter, honey, and oil, became treatments for the sick. Soon tea replaced coffee as the national beverage.
  • Coffee beans are similar to grapes that produce wine in that they are affected by the temperature, soil conditions, altitude, rainfall, drainage and degree of ripeness when picked.
  • Coffee is generally roasted between 400F and 425F. The longer it is roasted, the darker the roast. Roasting time is usually from ten to twenty minutes.
  • Coffee is graded according to 3 criteria: Bean quality (Altitude and Species) Quality of preparation Size of bean
  • Coffee is grown commercially in over forty-five countries throughout the world.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
4-10
National Farmers' Market Week 
Old Fiddler's Week
Rock for Life Week
Assistance Dog Week  
 
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Resurrect Romance Week 
Exercise With Your Child Week
National Fraud Awareness Week 

(This is sponsored by the FCC and has to do with phone & mail fraud.)
Single Working Women's Week 
 (Week always has the 4th in it)
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
Intimate Apparel Week

National Bargain Hunting Week
Psychic Week
Sturgis Rally
8-11
National Hobo Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Kool-Aid Day
·        International Day of The World's Indigenous People NCAI and Google partner for the first ever Indigenous Mapping Day.In partnership with the National Congress of American Indians, and in honor of the United Nation's International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Google Map Maker, Google Earth Outreach and the Google American Indian Network are proud to present Google's first ever Indigenous Mapping Day
·        Nagasaki Day
·        Perseid Meteor Showers
·        Veep Day
·        Worldwide Art Day
^^
·        Singapore: National Day (1965 Independence from Malaysia)
·        South Africa: National Women's Day

Today’s Events through History  
Arikara warriors attack an American expedition, a force of 500 Sioux warriors finds the
     Arikaras and a battle takes place. Colonel Henry Leavenworth soon arrives with his 
    force of 200 soldiers and reports his men kill fifty Arikaras and the Siouxs kill fifteen, 
    Sioux lose two warriors…1823
English Ft William Henry, NY, surrenders to French & Indians troops…1757
Gandhi & 50 others arrested after passing of a "quit India" campaign by the All-India 
     Congress…1942
Le Roy (Satchel) Paige inducted into baseball's Hall of Fame…1971
US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding of limited 
     research on embryonic stem cells…2003
Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht…1559

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Gillian Anderson, actress (X-Files) is 45
Eric Bana, TV actor is 45
Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty) is 69
Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then) is 56
Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show) is 70

Remembered for being born today
Robert Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty Dozen) [1918-1983]
Whitney Houston, singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard) [1963-2012]
Jean Piaget, Swiss pioneer developmental psychologist/zoologist [1896-1980]
Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday) [1927-1978]
Thomas Telford, Scottish civil engineer [1757-1834]
Pamela Lyndon Travers, Australian writer (Mary Poppins) [1899-1996]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead)…heart attack…1995…at 53
Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946)…1962…at 85
Gregory Hines, American actor and dancer…cancer…2003…at 57
Bernie Mac, comedian, actor…cardiac arrest…2008…at 50
Joe O'Donnell, documentary photographer, photojournalist…2007…at 85
Ted Stevens, Alaska: Senator…plane crash…2010…at 86
Raymond Washington, founder of Crips, California gang…drive by…1979…at 25

Brain Teasers
History
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.
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