5-31-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 151  / Week: 22 
May Averages: 68° \ 34°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 40%
    H 77° L 46° Ave. humidity: 51%
    Wind: ave:   5mph; Gusts:  19mph  
    Average High: 73° Record High:  89° (2002)
    Average Low: 38° Record Low:  23° (1988)
        
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

1621 - Sir Francis Bacon thrown into Tower of London for 1 night
1759 - The Province of Pennsylvania bans all theater productions
1790 - US copyright law enacted
1837 - Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria
1893 - Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening (zipper)
1900 - US troops arrive in Beijing, help put down Boxer Rebellion
1907 - Taxis 1st began running in NYC
1911 - R.M.S. Titanic launched, Belfast
1913 - 17th amendment (direct election of senators) declared ratified
1931 - 7.1 magnitude Earthquake destroys Quetta Pakistan: 40,000 dead.
1941 - 1st issue of "Parade" goes on sale
1958 - Dick Dale invents "surf music" with "Let's Go Trippin"

  Today’s Birthdays:   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free Rambling Thoughts   

The smoke has dissipated at lot around our little mountain town…finally. After over a week of fairly dense smoke, things are looking up. The people who returned to Oak Creek discovered that their electricity had been off during the entire evacuation. I’m sure there was lots of lost fresh and frozen foods, and what a mess to have to clean up. Much better than the alternative, but certainly not a pleasant clean up task.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

What is represented by this:
Jack's Saturday
Your Tuesday 92
Bob's Sunday
Your Thursday 24
Jill's Wednesday
Your Friday 70
Alison's Monday

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today





OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

Percentage of all criminal defendants in the US who forgo trial by pleading guilty: 97

Percentage of US convicts exonerated last year who had previously pleaded guility without a trial: 17

Unusual Fact of the Day

In contrast to his exotic look and mannerisms, Andy Warhol was born and raised not in Europe, but in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Heard by Flight Attendants…

Where are the lines between the states? You would be surprised how many people think there are actual lines between the states like on a map.

On night flights we will go through the cabin with trays of orange juice and water. Passengers will look at the tray and say: “Which one is the orange juice and which is the water?”

Presidential Fun Facts…

JAMES BUCHANAN was the only president never to marry. Five presidents remarried after the death of their first wives——two of whom, Tyler and Wilson, remarried while in the White House. Reagan was the only divorced president. Six presidents had no children. Tyler——father of fifteen——had the most.

What happens every minute on the internet machine…

Spotify: 14 new songs

WordPress:  347 new blog posts

Joke-of-the-day

The boss was concerned that his employees weren’t giving him enough respect, so he tried and old fashioned method of persuasion: He brought in a sign that said “I’m the Boss” and taped it to his door. After lunch, he noticed someone had taped another note under his. “Your wife called. She wants her sign back!” 

Rules of Thumb:   

PLANNING A POND
The value of a finished pond is roughly three times the cost of constructing it.

Yeah, It Really Happened

WASHINGTON (UPI) - The news out of Washington yesterday: expect aliens in 20 years.
Leading alien experts arrived on Capitol Hill on Tuesday donning not tin foil hats but suits and ties, probably ones with little planets and spaceships on them.
The experts -- scientists at the California-based Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) Institute -- addressed Congress as part of hearing hosted by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Specifically, the experts brought committee members up to speed on the ongoing search for alien life -- not the little green people from the movies, but microbial life within our own solar system and intelligent life beyond.
The experts are optimistic.
"At least a half-dozen other worlds (besides Earth) that might have life are in our solar system," explained Seth Shostak, an astronomer from SETI. "The chances of finding it, I think, are good, and if that happens, it'll happen in the next 20 years, depending on the financing."
"It would be bizarre if we are alone," said Dan Werthimer, director of the SETI Research Center in Berkeley.
Shostak and Werthimer said we will likely discover alien life in one of three ways: by discovering microbial life within our own solar system, by detecting radio signals from distant life forms, or by analyzing the output of methane or oxygen in the atmosphere of exoplanets.
But the scientists likely broke the hearts of several hundred True Believers when they denied aliens had already visited Earth.
"I don't think that that would be something all the governments would have managed to keep a secret," Shostak said. "If they were really here I think everyone would know that."

Somewhat Useless Information   

Continuously inhabited for over 7,000 years, Athens, the Capital of Greece, is one of the oldest cities in Europe. It is also the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, political science, Western literature, historiography, major mathematical principles, and Western theories of tragedy and comedy.

Voting in Greece is mandatory for all Greek citizens, although there are rarely sanctions for citizens that do not vote.

Currently, Greek men must serve from one year to 18 months in any branch of the armed forces.

According to Greek mythology, Athena and Poseidon agreed that whoever gave the city the best gift would become guardian over the city. Though Poseidon gave the gift of water, Athena's gift of an olive tree was deemed by the other gods to be more valuable.

The world's third leading producer of olives, the Greeks have cultivated olive trees since ancient times. Some olive trees planted in the thirteenth century are still producing olives.

 

Calendar Information        

This Week’s Observances:

25-31
Week of Solidarity With The People of Non-Self-Governing Territories
Hurricane Preparedness Week

Black Single Parents Week


Today Is  

Hug Your Cat Day 
National Macaroon Day
What You Think Upon Grows Day
Wicket World of Croquet Day 
World No-Tobacco Day

                                                           
Today’s Events through History  

1868 - 1st Memorial Day parade held in Ironton, Ohio
1969 - John Lennon & Yoko Ono record "Give Peace a Chance"
2012 - Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Clint Eastwood, actor \mayor is 84
Peter Yarrow, singer, (Peter, Paul & Mary) is 76
Joe Namath, NY Jets QB is 71
Sharon Gless, actress (Chris Cagney-Cagney & Lacey) is 71
Tom Berenger, actor (Big Chill, Someone to Watch Over Me) is 65
Gregory Harrison, actor (Trapper John, Logan's Run) is 64
Lea Thompson, actress (Caroline In The City) is 53
Brooke Shields, model/actress (Blue Lagoon, Suddenly Susan) is 49
Colin Farrell, Dublin, actor (In Bruges, Minority Report) is 38

Remembered for being born today

1819-1892 - Walt Whitman, poet (Leaves of Grass)
1894-1956 - Fred Allen, comedian (Fred Allen Radio Show)
1898-1993 - Norman Vincent Peale, clergyman (Power of Positive Thinking)
1908-1993 - Don Ameche, actor (Cocoon, Trading Places)
1912-1983 - Henry M "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-Wash)
1941-2003 - Johnny Paycheck, singer (Take This Job & Shove It)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Arlene Francis, television personality, 2001, @93
Jean Stapleton, actress (Edith Bunker), 2013, @90
Elizabeth Blackwell, 1st woman physician, 1910, @89
Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champ/actor, 1983, @87
Franz Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer, 1809, @77
Tito Puente, American musician, 2000, @77  
Timothy Francis Leary, Harvard prof/LSD guru, cancer, 1996, @75
George Tiller, abortion doctor, assassinated, 2009, @67
Adolf Eichmann, Nazi war criminal, hanged, 1962, @56

Brain Teasers                                         

Your days are numbered.

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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