10-11-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 284 / Week: 41 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°
   
Holiday Observances Today:
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4-H Week 
No Salt Week 
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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta  
Fall Astronomy Week 
World Space Week 
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Emergency Nurses Week 
Fire Prevention Week
International Post Card Week 
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Midwifery Week 
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week
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Customer Service Week 
Drive Safely Work Week 
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
National Health Care Food Service Week
National Metric Week
National Physician’s Assistant Week
Spinning & Weaving Week  
World Dairy Expo
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Take Your Medicine Americans Week
           
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria
1573 - Battle of South Seas - Dutch rebels beat Spanish navy
1737 - Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India
1868 - Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine
1871 - Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed

1890 - Daughters of American Revolution founded
1906 - San Francisco Board of Education orders segregation in separate schools of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean children sparking diplomatic crisis
1922 - First woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)
1929 - JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states.
1939 - Albert Einstein informs FDR of possibilities of atomic bomb
1950 - The FCC issues the first license to broadcast television in color, to CBS
1969 - Three people shot dead during street violence in the loyalist area of Belfast
1975 - Saturday Night Live premieres with George Carlin as host
1976 - Mao Zedong's widow Jiang Qing & "Gang of Four" arrested & charged with plotting a coup
1983 - Last hand-cranked telephones US went out of service
1984 - 1st spacewalk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)
1985 - President Reagan bans importation of South African Krugerrands
1987 - 200,000 gays march for civil rights in Washington
1990 - Center for Urban archaeology opens in NYC South Street Seaport Museum
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  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts   
What a tech adventure I had today. I am so tired of my cable company and its changed channel lineup. So today I head over to Best Buy to get a Roku stick, that allows you to stream (watch) movies and TV shows over the internet. So I bought the stick, found out that I am already using my 2 HDMI ports and had to return and buy a splitter box. Hooked everything up, have a great picture and now ease in watching streamed stuff. Cool. It only took about 2 hours, minus the driving time back to the store for the splitter. And as an extra bonus, I now have 2 new remotes to add to my 3 remotes I already had. I think I now need a case to hold all the damn remotes.
I had an early morning dr. visit, all is good. Got my flu shot…and another surprise…now that I am an official ‘senior’ they have a stronger shot, still at no cost, thanks to insurance. Something about being 50% stronger, with no new side effects. The pharmacist did say they are still studying to see if the stronger shot really works better for seniors. I’ll see how it works on me.
Ebola has a lot of people very nervous. Listening to the family members of the man who died in TX, one has to wonder if the man was given the proper care. Now there is a fear that if Ebola makes it to one of the 3rd world countries in our hemisphere…like Haiti…are we prepared?
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
A science teacher told his after school class, "Whoever can get this egg into this smaller glass bottle will win no homework for a week! The rules are: the egg has to go into the bottle in one piece, and you can't break the bottle. You can also use anything in the science lab. So, do we have any volunteers?"
A boy raised his hand and the teacher pointed at him. The boy took the egg and looked around the science lab for the things he could use. He saw some writing paper, a pack of matches, some vinegar, a sink, and the glass bottle. By the end of the after school class, the boy had gotten the egg into the smaller bottle.
How did he do it? Note that, without doing anything to the egg, the egg can't fit into the bottle.

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Age Facts…
The youngest Pope was 11 years old.
           
Brain Facts…
When someone looks at a new love, the neural circuits that are usually associated with social judgment are suppressed.
           
Computer Facts…
In the 1980s, an IBM computer wasn't considered 100 percent compatible unless it could run Microsoft Flight Simulator*.
           
Flagstaff, AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO
Gene Flint, former Flagstaff resident, is here with Dr. J. D. Dunshee of the State Health Department Healthmobile to give skin tests and X-rays for tuberculosis to high school and college students. They are accompanied by a nurse, who will give the skin tests and X-rays to those who show a positive reaction to the test.
           
Fun Facts…
There's a wife-carrying championship that takes place in Finland every year where the winner receives his wife's weight in beer.
           
Harper’s Index…
Percentage change in the past 5 years in the number of deportations ordered by US immigration courts: -44
           
Rules of Thumb…   
BELIEVING YOUR RESUME
Once you begin to believe your own resume, you will not be happy with your current job or salary.      

Unusual Fact of the Day…
Parcheesi originated as a life-size game—the ruler of India played it in his garden, using pretty young women as the pawns. As for the “home” they moved toward? That was the center of the garden, where the emperor sat.   
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Joke-of-the-day
A man hasn't been feeling well, so he goes to his doctor for a complete checkup. Afterward, the doctor comes out with the results. 
"I'm afraid I have some very bad news," the doctor says. "You're dying, and you don't have much time left." 
"Oh, that's terrible!" says the man. "Give it to me straight, Doc. How long have I got?" 
"Ten," the doctor says sadly. 
"Ten?" the man asks. "Ten what? Months? Weeks? What?!" 
"Nine..."

           
Yep, It Really Happened
If your erection lasts more than four hours you should seek the attention of a doctor. If your erection lasts more than 17 hours you are in for some real unpleasantness. 
Brit Jason Garnett woke up one morning with the unwelcomed turgidity, but like most men who wake up in this condition he thought it would soon go away by itself. It didn't. 
As the hours passed he tried various things including exercise and an ice bath before he finally agreed to be taken to the hospital.
"Ending up in hospital with a permanent erection was probably the most embarrassing day of my life," Garnett said, but the embarrassment was going to be the least of his worries. 
Doctors first tried to slow Garnett's blood flow by injecting his penis 24 times.
"Seeing them stab my penis with a needle was a horrible experience - like something out of a horror film." 
But that didn't work so they had to come up with another way of making the 23-year-old's penis go down. In a last desperate attempt doctors removed two pints of blood from his penis. 
This final procedure worked. 
"The pain was 10 out of 10," Garnett commented. Adding that after its ordeal, his penis is "a bit black and blue."
           

Somewhat Useless Information   
Spider-Man was very close to being kicked in the wastepaper bin mere moments after making it off the drawing board. Martin Goodman, head of Marvel at the time, told Spider-Man creator Stan Lee that he thought the new hero was a "rotten idea" for a comic book hero.
Superman's creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, originally conceived of The Superman as a telepathic scientist obsessed with world domination. He was also bald!
Captain America's creators Joe Simon and Jack Kirby originally dreamed up a heraldic-shaped shield. But rival comic publisher MLJ already had a patriotic character called The Shield who had a very similar looking heraldic logo on his chest.
When Stan Lee first released the Daredevil comics, he made it clear to the Marvel team: if there were even the vaguest whiff that the comic was causing offense to blind people, or blind organizations, he would pull the book from the shelves. 
Stan Lee always intended for the Hulk to be grey-and so he was, in the very first issue of the series The Incredible Hulk in 1962. However, due to the fact that there were major problems with the inconsistency of the printing, they ended up having to choose a color instead. One of the most consistent colors in print at the time was green, so they opted for that.
Wolverine was created by writer Len Wein, because he needed a character who could do battle with the The Incredible Hulk. The Wolverine made his debut in issue 181, way back in 1974, as a Canadian special agent ordered by a government department to capture Hulk and "bring him in."

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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
General Pulaski Memorial Day (Polish hero of American Revolution)
International Day of The Girl
It's My Party Day
National Coming Out Day
National Costume Swap Day
National Face Your Fears Day  
National Family Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day)
National Food Truck Day
Take Your Teddy Bear to Work Day
Universal Music Day
Southern Food Heritage Day
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            Today’s Events through History  
1726 - Benjamin Franklin returns to Philadelphia from England
1991 - Anita Hill testifies Clarence Thomas sexually harrased her
2001 - The Polaroid Corporation files for federal bankruptcy protection.
2012 - Mo Yan, a hallucinatory realist writer, wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
2013 - The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons wins the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize

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Birthday’s Today                                                        
Daryl Hall, [Hohl], rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates) is 67
Joan Cusack, actress (SNL, Addams Family Values) is 52
Luke Perry, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210) is 48
Jane Krakowski, actress (30 Rock) is 46
Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy (5-time all-around world champion) is 45
Emily Deschanel, actress (Bones) is 38
Michelle Wie, American golfer is 25

Remembered for being born today
Henry John Heinz, founded Heinz-57 varieties, (1844-1919)
Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st lady\crusader (Nobel 1931) (1884-1962)
Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes My Baby) (1932-1991)
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Historical Obits Today                                                           
Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers, 2011, @91
Tex Williams, country-western singer, cancer, 1985, @68
Wayland Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame), AIDS, 1988, @48
Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis & Clark Expedition), suicide, 1809, @35
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Brain Teasers                                         
First, soak the egg in the vinegar which softens the shell without compromising the egg. Next, take some of the writing paper and shred it into pieces. Take the shredded pieces and put them into the glass bottle. Take a match and light a fire inside the bottle with the shredded paper. After, take the vinegar-soaked egg and put it on the top of the bottle so no oxygen can get into the bottle. The fire can't live without any oxygen so it will try to suck oxygen from the entrance which the egg is blocking. When the fire does this, the fire becomes like a vacuum. So, basically, the fire sucks the egg into the bottle to try to get the oxygen. After a short while, the shell will reharden and that's how the egg got into the bottle.           
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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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