10-13-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 286 / Week: 42 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°


   
Holiday Observances Today:
English Language Day 
International African Penguin Awareness Day 
International Day for Failure 
International Skeptics Day

Metastatic Breast Cancer Awareness Day 
Native American Day

National Kick Butt Day
National Peanut Festival
National Chess Day
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Columbus Day (US)  or National Day of Mourning (Native Americans)   
           
Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
    54 - Nero suceeds Claudius to become Roman Emperor
1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House)
1843 - B'nai B'rith founded (NY)
1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude
1913 - Explosion & fire in Universal Coal Mine, South Wales
1914 - Garrett Morgan invents & patents gas mask
1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital
1969 - 1st time 7 people in space
1975 - 9th Country Music Association Award: John Denver wins
1976 – 1st electron micrograph of an Ebola viral particle was obtained
1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the 1st US cellular network
1999 - US Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT).
2010 - The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground awaiting rescue.
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  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts   
Our discussion group was small last night, but what a discussion. We were discussing water issues of the Southwest. The pamphlet that led to the discussion was very even handed in presenting the issues. While it is clear that the Southwest is in a very long drought, there are things mankind can do to allow us to continue to live here. The big question is ‘Will we do the necessary things?” Over the history of the world, sometimes man has adapted, other times man has left the area or just disappeared. It sounds like things may be difficult for many decades but what will happen to future generations is certainly in question. Great evening for sure.
Two in our group have just built a new home in ‘Presidio’. This development was started about a decade ago and went broke, was bought out, went broke again and is now building again. When the couple was trying to get the bank to approve the building, the address was not listed anywhere. When they moved in, it still wasn’t on GPS. Now it is on GPS and all is good. I had always thought the development was in the boonies of west Flagstaff. Wrong! It is easy to get to and is only about a 5 minute drive to the NAU campus. They are an older couple and had lived in a tri-level in Cheshire, a nice neighborhood in Flagstaff. Their new home, the same sq footage as the old one, is a single level 3 bedroom, 3 bath home with a huge kitchen and big great room. They love it, their two big dogs love it, and so did we.  
Broncos won…great. Cards looking good too.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Can you decipher this phrase:

KNOWITNO 


Found on You Tube with some relevance to today



           
OK Then…


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Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Brain Facts…
10 seconds is the amount of time until unconsciousness after the loss of blood supply to the brain.
           
Children Facts…
The most children birthed by ONE mother was 69 children over 27 pregnancies: 16 sets of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. This was in Russia, in the 1700s.
           
Computer Facts…
The first computer mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart in around 1964 and was made of wood.
           
Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 YEARS AGO
We had a record voter turnout on Tuesday with 2,281 votes being cast.
The ASC Homecoming Parade with the theme of “The Wonderful World of Entertainment” led by Parade Marshall Gary Burnum drew 30 floats and 11 Arizona high school bands traveling through downtown Flagstaff on Saturday morning.
           
Harper’s Index…
Portion of people employed in computer occupations in the US who are men: 2/3        
Law Facts…
According to the IRS, self-employed criminals are required to declare the source of their illegal income (like selling drugs) - and they can't prosecute for it!
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In 2015, Britain will ban smoking in cars carrying children.
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The longest-running legal battle for a domain name is believed to be the fight for PETA.org. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sued People Eating Tasty Animals to obtain the name – the case spanned from 1995 to 2001.
           
Rules of Thumb…   
RUNNING AND TALKING
If you can't maintain a comfortable conversation while exercising, you are probably working beyond your aerobic target zone.       
Unusual Fact of the Day…
Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men. The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.  
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Joke-of-the-day
Q. What did the fish say when it swam into the wall? 

A. Dam!         


Yep, It Really Happened
DETROIT (UPI) - A Detroit homeowner selling an "investor special" house has lowered the asking price from $5,000 to an iPhone 6, his real estate broker said. Larry Else, real estate broker for the unidentified man, who lives in Austria, said his client is willing to trade the run-down "investor special" home for the latest iPhone, but he will also accept a 32 gigabyte iPad. "This house is really not worth much at all," Else told ABC News. He said his client purchased the house for $41,000 in 2010 and only later learned the seller had purchased it for $10,500 only two weeks earlier. Else said his client "was a victim himself." The home, which has no front door, has since accumulated more than $6,000 in back taxes and is due to go into foreclosure next year if the taxes remain unpaid. Else said there has been some interest in the home since the offer went public, including a potential buyer who offered an iPhone 5, an older model than the asking price, and another who offered $850. The broker said one woman said she was interested in the house "for the wood" because she needed white pine planks.
           
Somewhat Useless Information   
Seven trivia facts about the first iPhone
The first iPhone obtained its name in 2002 in many countries worldwide, as well as in the European Union.
Its development was initially covered under a secret project with the code name “Project Purple” in 2004.
Steve Jobs had previously rejected countless designs for the iPhone before choosing the final one.
The first iPhone had only one camera of 2 Megapixel, without zoom or autofocus and with no video support.
The first iPhone did not have GPS.
The first iPhone was purchased by 6.1 million people.
Because of the long queues outside Apple Stores one day before its release, iPhone was given the nickname “Jesus Phone”
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Which was the first bank of Pakistan?
When did banking first normally started in Pakistan and which was the first bank?
The first bank in Pakistan was the State Bank of Pakistan, being the central bank of the nation, as well, as banking  started in Pakistan during the period of British colonialism in the South Asia.
Its headquarters were based in Karachi and only 7% of the population uses the banks.
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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
--- 10-16
Take Your Medicine Americans Week
            --- 12-18
Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week
Earth Science Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
Veterinary Technicians Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
World Rainforest Week
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence 

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            Today’s Events through History  
1864 - Battle of Harpers Ferry, WV 
1870 - Gustav Mahler (10) gives his 1st public piano concert
1885 - The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is founded in Atlanta
1988 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Naguib Mahfouz
1994 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Kenzaburo Oe
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Birthday’s Today                                                        
Paul Simon, singer/actor (Kodachrome) is 72
Demond Wilson, actor (Sanford & Son) is 68
Sammy Hagar, rock vocalist (Van Halen-Jump) is 67
Lacy J Dalton, country singer is 68
Marie Osmond, singer/actress is 55
Rob Schneider, actor (Saturday Night Live) is 51
Kate Walsh, actress (Grey’s Anatomy) is 47
Sacha Baron Cohen, comedian/actor (Borat) is 43
Ashanti Douglas, singer is 34

Remembered for being born today
Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars (1243-1314)
Rudolf Virchow, German politician\pathologist (cell pathology), (1821-1902)
Arna Bontemps, poet (100 years of negro freedom) (1902-1973)
Cornel Wilde, actor (High Sierra) (1912-1989)
Burr Tillstrom, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) (1917-1985)
Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z) (1921-1991)
Margaret Thatcher, British PM (1925-2013)
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Historical Obits Today                                                           
Milton S. Hershey, chocolate tycoon, 1945, @86
Walter Houser Brattain, American physicist (transistors, Nobel 1956), 1987, @85
Clifton Webb, actor (Razor's Edge), heart attack, 1966, @76
Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show), cancer, 1974, @73
Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction), lung cancer, 1968, @62
Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers), cancer, 2001, @52
E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye), cancer, 1938, @43
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Brain Teasers                                         
No two ways about it.        
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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.
§…And That Is All for Now…§


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