10-7-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 280 / Week: 41 
October Averages: 63° \ 31°
   


Holiday Observances Today:
Bald and Free Day
National Diversity Day
National Frappe Day
National Lee Denim Day
You Matter To Me Day
World Smile Day
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Yom Kippur (Jewish- Day of Atonement-begins at sundown)     

Quote of the Day



Historical Highlights for Today
3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar)
1492 - Columbus misses Florida when he changes course
1520 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain
1672 - White Mountain APACHEs raid the ZUNI pueblo of Hawikum
1763 - George III of Great Britain issues Proclamation of 1763, closing lands in North America north & west of Alleghenies to white settlement
1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood
1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens
1919 - KLM, Royal Ducth Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)
1931 - 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY
1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing 38th parallel
1957 - "American Bandstand" premieres
1958 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1990 - Israel begins handing out gas masks to its citizens
1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming 
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  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today



My Rambling Thoughts   
OMG, it’s summer again. So nice to have a warm, keep the windows and doors open day.
Our HOA is busy. On Friday I found a note taped to my door—against HOA rules—telling me that they are going to reseal our parking lot street. Even had a full color-coded map telling us to have no vehicles parked in the shaded area on Monday. They are doing ½ of Monday and ½ on Tuesday. Then on Saturday morning, the same note on my vehicle. Then on Saturday, another note on my vehicle. Then on Sunday, a note taped to my door and another note on my vehicle. I got it the first time. I moved the vehicle when I got up this morning. I went out about 8:30 and as I am walking, one of the reseal workers said ‘Is that you Mr. Frazier?” Turns out to be a former student from Tonalea who I haven’t seen for about 20 years. Good to know he still recognized me. He commutes into town every day (about 100 miles) for his job. Amazing. Then when I return to my place, a lady and a man are visiting my neighbors who are from Kaibeto. The lady, about 50+, says ‘weren’t you the Principal at Navajo Mtn?’ Her kids went to school there back in 1984. WOW. We caught up a little. The Dine’ people are wonderful people….and have great memories.
The reseal team finished about noon, but we can’t repark until after 5p. Looks good though.
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Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
The letter "o" has been removed from the following words. Can you guess them all?
1) utdr
2) bnxius
3) drus
4) nlker
5) nmatpeia
6) ppsitin
7) rthdx
8) cckat
9) prtbell
10) vd


Found on You Tube with some relevance to today




           
OK Then…
         
Paraphernalia 4 the Brain:     
Age Facts…
After age 30, the brain shrinks a quarter of a percent (0.25%) in mass each year.
           
Brain Facts…
Research has shown that allowing chocolate to melt in your mouth produced brain and heart rate activity that was similar to - and even stronger than - that produced with passionate kissing.
           
Computer Facts…
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
           
Flagstaff, AZ History…
From 1889: G. A. Bray is now engaged in shearing about 14,000 head of sheep at Tunnel Springs 1.5 miles west of town. He expects over 6 pounds to each fleece.
J. A. Marshall of the San Francisco Peaks came into town on Friday to dispose of a fine crop of potatoes at Salzman’s.
           
Fun Facts…
In 2001, the island country of Niue featured Pikachu and other Pokémon on their currency.
           
Harper’s Index…
Percentage change since 2009 in the number of race-related complaints filed against US colleges and universities: +55
Portion of the requests from white male students for meetings with their business-school professors that receive responses: 4/5
Portion of requests from male students from India that do: 1/3
           
Rules of Thumb…   
JUDGING DESIGN
When simple things need instructions, it is a sign of poor design.  

Unusual Fact of the Day…
The Jolly Corks was a social club formed in New York in 1867. They’re still around, but today they’re now known as the Benevolent Protective Order of the Elks.           
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Joke-of-the-day
While taxiing at London Gatwick, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US Air 2771, where the hell are you going! I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's difficult for you to tell the difference between 'C' and 'D', but get it right!" Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: "God! Now you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US Air 2771?"
"Yes ma'am," the humbled crew responded.
Naturally, the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate ground controller in her current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out in Gatwick was definitely running high. Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone, asking: "Wasn't I married to you once?"           

Yep, It Really Happened
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (UPI) - Doctors in Bishkek removed a nine-pound hairball from the stomach of 18-year-old Ayperi Alekseeva after she could no longer eat or drink. The ball developed over years as the woman chewed the ends of her hair and ate hair off the floor. "Her stomach was so badly swollen from hair and bits of wool from the carpet that it literally just oozed out soon as the wall of the stomach was cut," Senior professor of surgery at Bishkek hospital Bahadir Bebezov told The Daily Mail. Aside from the hair eating compulsion that caused her to become malnourished, Alekseeva was completely healthy. The compulsion to eat human hair is called Trichophagia, which can result in the development of Rapunzel syndrome, a condition where the ball develops a "tail" that clogs the lower intestine. Alekseeva is recovering and promises to refrain from chewing her hair in the future. 
           

Somewhat Useless Information   
Average wage for the workmen who dug the Erie canal: $1 and 1 quart of whiskey per day.
The United States bought Alaska from Russia in 1867 for 2 cents an acre.
It cost $3 million to build the Titanic and $100 million to make the movie.
The price of a box of Girl Scout cookies when they debuted in 1936: 25 cents.
Babe Ruth's salary in 1932 was $80,000. In 2005 Sammy Sosa's salary was $17 million. 
In 1920 the average check at a diner was 28 cents.    

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Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
--- 1-7
National Walk Your Dog Week 
Universal Children's Week
--- 3-11

4-H Week 
No Salt Week 
--- 4-12

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta  
Fall Astronomy Week 
World Space Week 
--- 5-11Emergency 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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            Today’s Events through History  
1900 - The term "orienteering" is first used for an event
1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line
1960 - "Route 66" premieres
1971 - Disney World opens in Orlando, Florida
1993 - Nobel prize for literature awarded to Toni Morrison
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Birthday’s Today                                                        
Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) is 83
Oliver L North, US colonel (Irangate) is 71
Joy Behar, television personality is 71
John Cougar Mellencamp, rocker (Jack & Diane) is 63
Vladimir Putin, Russian politician is 62
Yo-Yo Ma, Paris, world famous cellist is 59
James Van Patten, Brooklyn, actor (Bo-Chisholms) is 58
Simon Cowell, London, (X-Factor, American Idol) is 55
Toni Braxton, American singer is 47
Rachel McAdams, Canadian actress is 35

Remembered for being born today
William Billings, Boston, hymn composer (Rose of Sharon) (1746-1800)
James Whitcomb Riley, US, poet (Raggedy Man) (1849-1916)
Joe Hill, Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr (1879-1915)
Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, (Nobel 1922) (1885-1962)
Elijah Muhammad (Elijah Robert Po), US, leader of Nation of Islam (1897-1975)
Louis S B Leakey, archaeologist/anthropologist (1903-1972)
Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Flagstaff, actor (1905-1977)
June Allyson, Bronx, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas) (1917-2006)
Al Martino, singer (Here in My Heart)/actor (Godfather) (1927-2009)
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Historical Obits Today                                                           
Leo Durocher, baseball player and manager (Dodgers, Giants), 1991, @86
Clarence Birdseye, American inventor, heart attack, 1956, @69  
Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic, 1849, @40
Mario Lanza, opera singer, heart attack, @38  
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Brain Teasers                                         
1) outdoor
2) obnoxious
3) odorous
4) onlooker
5) onomatopoeia
6) opposition
7) orthodox
8) cockatoo
9) portobello
10) voodoo  

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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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