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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 34/ Day: 234
Today: H 76°…L 54°
Wind: ave: 2mph; Gusts: 7mph Ave. humidity: 67%
Average Low Average High Record Low Record High
48° 79° 32° (1968) 88° (1938)
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st carload of freight (boots & shoes)
arrives in SF, from Boston…1869
1st Europe-US live TV program (via
Telstar)…1962
Communists take over Laos…1975
1st Japanese coml ship visits SF, carrying
tea…1872
1st one-way streets open (London)…1617
Automobile tire chain patented…1904
Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb
Stalingrad (40,000 die)…1942
Ethiopian junta under Mengistu Haile…1975
Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast
day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire…79
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
An interesting day at the casino. Mary and I took the bus at 9am…it’s a free and you get $35 in free gaming and a free meal at the café. Cheryl met us out there, we had lunch…but not at the free café that looked more like a BIA cafeteria. I had a good burger with decent fry bread. It is only about 25 miles so driving is not a big deal. The bus was new and nice. Most of the passengers were regulars who knew each other, asked about a few that were missing. Only 3 people on the bus were first timers. Most of the passengers were Native and sadly most appeared to be homeless and/or heavy drinkers. By noon there was a good crowd at the casino, but again, most were very low income looking for the free meal. As casinos go, it was nice, lots of slots, table games, and friendly staff. I ran into one former student who was enjoying the employment. Also most of the staff was Native. I played my free money, and left with $12..which paid for lunch at the sit down restaurant. Mary loves her slots and came away with $85. She will be back there long before either Cheryl or me. All in all a different way to spend a Thursday.Percentages and national security are always interesting. One guy years ago brought a shoe bomb on a plane and now everyone in the US has to take their shoes off. Terrorists use the internet to communicate so the NSA watches emails and internet phone calls of many innocent uninvolved Americans. What I find interesting is that the NSA says that it has the capability to watch 75% of internet activity. Sure seems to me that the bad guys would be using the 25% the NSA isn’t watching. NSA won’t say why they can’t watch that 25% or what that 25% is, but still thinks it’s OK to watch what it is watching. The argument of TSA is that ‘random’ searches at the airport line would never be sufficient to protect the passengers, but 75% watching the internet is acceptable to catch the bad guys. Just doesn’t make a lot of sense to me.Anderson Cooper did an amazing interview with the secretary from the Georgia school and the 911 operator who handled the call. Their calmness during the ordeal is so amazing. She believes that God put her in that place, at that time, to do what she did. After listening to her, hard to argue with her.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
In these Word Pyramids, the first letter is
given to you (which is the first answer). Use the clues to build the pyramid to
find the answer. In each consecutive answer, a letter is added to the previous
answer. However, the answer letters might not be in the same order. Good Luck!!
Starting letter: A
Clues:
Starting letter: A
Clues:
1. sodium 2. one, some, every, or all 3. greenish blue 4. careful and shrewd 5. Grand ------
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Tongue
Twisters
You've no need to light a night-light
On a light night like tonight,
For a night-light's light's a slight light,
And tonight's a night that's light.
When a night's light, like tonight's light,
It is really not quite right
To light night-lights with their slight lights
On a light night like tonight.
Not a Fan of Faux News, but this is crazy.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
- Percentage of airtime on Fox News that is dedicated to opinion: 55
- Of airtime on MSNBC: 85
Unusual Fact of the Day
Teddy Roosevelt is the youngest man to become President (age 42) while John F Kennedy is the youngest man to be elected President (age 43).Joke-of-the-day
A man walks into the psychiatrist’s office with a zucchini up his nose, a cucumber in his left ear, and a breadstick in his right ear. He says, “What is wrong with me?The psychiatrist replies, “You are not eating properly.”
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
ERECTING A TELEPHONE POLE
One-fifth of the length of a telephone pole should be planted in the ground.
Yeah, It Really Happened
SEATTLE - A study in Washington is intended to develop a better understanding of how the state's Mount St. Helens gets its supply of volcanic magma, researchers say. The 2-year project called Imaging Magma Under St. Helens, led by researchers at the University of Washington, could bring improvements in volcanic monitoring and advance warning systems at Mount St. Helens and other volcanoes, a university release reported Thursday. "The main goal is to understand the plumbing system of the mountain," earth and space sciences Professor Kenneth Creager said. The study in a broad area of southwestern Washington will have three separate components, the researchers said: passive-source seismic monitoring, active-source seismic monitoring and magnetotelluric monitoring, which uses fluctuations in Earth's electromagnetic field to produce images of structures beneath the surface. The study's goal is a better understanding of how volcanoes work and particularly a much clearer idea of what is happening below Mount St. Helens, they said."Previous work has shown there is magma down to about 3 miles deep, but there is not a large reservoir of the molten rock," Creager said. "We need a clearer picture of this magma system and its deeper origins." Mount St. Helens is the focus of the study because it has been the most active volcano in the Cascade Range, erupting twice in the last 35 years including a catastrophic eruption in May 1980. "Developing a better understanding of the underlying magma system and how it relates to the top of the volcano will allow scientists to make more accurate assessments of the volcano's status when it becomes active in the future," Creager said.
- Somewhat Useless Information
- The bloodiest ship-to-ship action of the age of sail was fought between the American frigate USS Chesapeake and the British frigate HMS Shannon during the War of 1812. In an engagement that lasted less than 15 minutes, the British lost 23 killed and 56 wounded, while the Americans lost 48 killed and 99 wounded. Between the wounded of the ships' two companies, another 23 died of their wounds in the two weeks following the action.
- During the court-martial that followed the capture of USS Chesapeake by HMS Shannon, Midshipman William Sitgreaves Cox, the junior-most officer on the Chesapeake, was charged with cowardice, disobedience of orders, desertion from quarters, neglect of duty, and unofficerlike conduct. He had taken the injured captain below-deck during the battle and could not regain the deck when the British boarded the Chesapeake. In the end, Mr. Cox was only convicted of unofficerlike conduct, and neglect of duty for leaving the deck when he knew, or should have known, that a boarding action was imminent, since every other officer above him was either injured or out-of-action and Cox was technically in command of Chesapeake. Cox's family tried for nearly 140 years to exonerate his name. Finally, in 1952, Cox's great grandson, succeeded in bringing the matter to the attention of the House Armed Services Committee which reviewed the historical facts of the case and recommended his reinstatement.
Calendar Information
18-24
Little League
Baseball World Series
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Minority Enterprise Development Week
Today Is
·
Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade
& Its Abolition
·
Valentino Day
Today’s Events through History
"Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip
premieres in Chicago Tribune…1919
Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area
an independent state & name it
Franklin; a year later the Continental
Congress rejects it…1784
1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal…1942
Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant…1995
World's largest frog (3.3 kg) caught
(Equatorial Guinea)…1960
Today’s Birthdays
Kobe Bryant, NBA guard (LA Lakers) is 35
Scott Caan, actor (Hawaii 50] is 37
Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress
(Dream of Jeannie) is 82
Shelley Long, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit)
is 64
Lee Majors, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall
Guy) is 75
Vera Miles, [Ralston], actress (Psycho)
is 83
Sun Ming Ming, Chinese basketball player is 30
Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian is
43
Mark Russell, political satirist/pianist (Real
People) is 81
Rick Springfield, Australia, (General
Hospital, Jessie's Girl) is 64
Remembered
for being born today
Gene Kelly, dancer/actor (An American in Paris,
Going My Way) [1912-1996]
Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France, eventually
guillotined [1754-1793]
River Phoenix, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By
Me) [1970-1993]
Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson, US 100m
sprinter (Olympic-gold-1928) [1911-1999]
Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social
reformer [1852-1883]
Tex Williams, country singer [1917-1985]
Today’s Historical Obits
Paul J C Gabriel, Dutch water colors
painter/etcher…1903…at 75
Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last
Outlaw)…cancer…1962…at 70
Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist…cancer…1960…at
65
Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister…1723…at
84
Brock Peters, actor (To Kill a Mokinghbird)…cancer…2005…at
78
Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik)…
peritonitis…1926…at 31
William Wallace, Scottish patriot…hanged,
disemboweled & beheaded…1305..at 33ish
Brain
Teasers
Answer
A NA ANY CYAN CANNY CANYON
The Grand Canyon leaves all who experience it with a sense of wonder, magic and awe. From its dramatic 5000 foot deep, 277 miles long, and up to 18 mile wide gorge, to its diverse plateaus, towers and hills, the Grand Canyon is one of the world's most stunning destinations. Rich with exceptional beauty, ancient geological history and modern universal amazement, the Grand Canyon attracts more than 5 million tourists each year.
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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