2-19-2015

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Almanac: Week: 08 \ Day: 050 
February Averages: 45°\19°
86004 Today: H 63°\L 25°
Average Sky Cover: 0%  Ave. humidity: 45%    
Wind ave:   8mph\Gusts:  21mph
Ave. High: 46° Record High:  65° (1981)
Ave. Low: 19° Record Low:  -6° (1942)

Observances Today:
Chocolate Mint Day
Chinese New Year
The Great American Spit Out
Iwo Jima Day (Landing) 

Observances This Week:
Feb 14-21
National Condom Week
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week
Brotherhood/Sisterhood Week 
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
Through With The Chew 
National Date (fruit) Week
National Pancake Week
National Justice for Animals Week

Feb 19-22
American Birkenbreiner Race
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Quote of the Day 


US Historical Highlights for Today
1807 - VP Aaron Burr arrested in Alabama for treason; later acquitted
1856 - Tin-type camera patented by Hamilton Smith, Gambier, Ohio
1878 - Thomas Alva Edison patents gramophone (phonograph)
1881 - Kansas becomes 1st state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages
1906 - Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co (later Kelloggs) founded
1910 - Aviator Charles K. Hamilton flew his bi-plane to Tucson for an aviation exhibition at the Elysian Grove race track.
1913 - 1st prize inserted into a Cracker Jack box
1932 - William Faulkner completes his novel "Light in August"
1942 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1945 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima with 30,000 US Marines
1953 - William Inge's "Picnic," premieres in NYC
1960 - Bil Keane's "Family Circus" cartoon strip debuts
1968 - 1st US Teachers strike (Florida)
1974 - 1st American Music Award: Helen Reddy & Jim Croce win
1984 - 1st brother combo to win Gold & Silver in same event at Olympics (Phil & Steve Mahre-Slalom)
1985 - Canned & bottled Cherry Coke introduced by Coca-Cola
Today’s World Events through History
1600 - The Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina explodes in the most violent eruption in the recorded history of South America
1910 - Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her 1st periods of forced isolation
1919 - Pan-African Congress, organized by W.E.B. Du Bois (Paris)
1928 - 2nd Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland
1984 - 14th winter Olympic games close at Sarajevo, Yugoslavia
2004 - Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal is awarded an honorary knighthood in recognition of a "lifetime of service to humanity."
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  Birthdays Today:
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today


My Rambling Thoughts
Beautiful spring day. I found a full service car wash in Flag. The one near me closed down about a year ago, so I have been doing the drive thru kind. After my trip, I needed a full service one. They did a great job.
While I did a long drive, I didn’t have any CD books to listen to so I was stuck with the radio. After losing NPR from Flag, I ended up on a two talk radio stations that would stay on for the trip. Sadly, they were both right wing. I decided it was good to listen to another point of view. These guys and gals are total wackos. They make no sense. And the callers are even more insane. They have no respect of Obama, no respect for the more liberal legislators, and while they scream about free speech, what they really mean, free speech for only their point of view. If someone disagrees, they belittle not only their opinion but also the individual. If one doesn’t agree, they are uninformed or worse. While I disagree with most of what they say, it is more frightening that they have lots of followers. Some guy named something Savage has been on the air for over 20 years spewing his hatred. Rush has been on about as long. It is no wonder our political system is so messed up. These guys don’t let other opinions on the air, and certainly have an agenda. Next trip I’m figuring out how to get audio books or music from my iPod into the car speakers. I used to have an adaptor, years ago, that sent the iPod signal through some FM station on my car radio, but have no idea where it might be. Guess I’ll start looking for a new one. I probably got it at Radio Shack, which is now going out of business. I’m sure the Best Buy kids would just look at me, shake their heads, and wonder what rock I just climbed out from underneath.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Insert the words in COLUMN II into the spaces in COLUMN I to form words. Do not rearrange the letters.

COLUMN I............. COLUMN II

IN_ _ _ _O               ACHE
CON_ _ _ _ NT       AUNT
H_ _ _ _ING            BAND
EX_ _ _ _ENT         BITE
OR_ _ _ _R             CELL
TA_ _ _ _RY           CENT
DIS_ _ _ _T            CHAR
FOR_ _ _ _ TE       COLA
AL_ _ _ _ R            DIME
EM_ _ _ _ Y           DOME
PER_ _ _ _ TE       EACH
A_ _ _ _ ON           FERN
DIS_ _ _ _ GE        JOIN
O_ _ _ _ TER         LOVE
IN_ _ _ _ IVE        PATH
IM_ _ _ _OR         PEST
B_ _ _ _LOR         POST
T_ _ _ _ER           TUNA

           
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
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Country Facts…
-- France's capital Paris means "the working people".
--Malaysia's capital Kuala Lumpur means "Muddy River"

Easter Eggs…check it out…
Remember those old Nokia phones? The Internet hails them as completely unbreakable, but they had another classic feature: The Snake Game. And now Google has it as a Doodle Game! Use your arrow keys to navigate the snake around the screen picking up food and other boosts. But beware of the dynamite!

Flagstaff, AZ History…
50 years ago
There were 40 arrests on Friday including seven drunks, 15 for illegal consumption, two contributing to the delinquency of a minor, three shoplifters, three hitchhikers, two vagrancy and one malicious mischief, a teenager who was breaking parking meters.

Harper’s Index…
36
Number of NYC police officers wearing body cameras as part of a pilot program started this fall
Rules of Thumb…
LANDLORDING
An apartment building should be able to sustain rents that give you $100 profit on each rental unit every month.

Unusual Fact of the Day…
A 17th century children’s game called “dibstones” was similar to what we call “jacks” today, only back then sheep’s knuckles were used instead of little metal gizmos.
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Joke-of-the-day
A man and a woman get in a terrible car wreck. 
Both of their vehicles were completely destroyed, but fortunately, no one was hurt. 
Thankful, the woman says to the man in a flirting tone, "We're both okay, we should celebrate." 
So the woman gets a bottle of wine out of the trunk of the smashed car, and hands it to the man with a smile. 
The man almost forgetting about the accident takes a really big drink, and hands the bottle to the woman. 
The woman closes the bottle and put it away. 
The man asks, "Aren't you going to take a drink?" 
And the woman replies, "No, I'll celebrate after the cops leave."     

BONUS
My wife asked for the broom...
And I said, "Why? Are you going somewhere?"


Yep, It Really Happened
COACHELLA, Calif. (UPI)
Police in California are searching for the "bra bandit" -- a man recorded stealing clothes from a pickup truck while wearing a skirt and two bras. Security camera footage from outside a Coachella home recorded a man, dubbed the "bra bandit," wearing a skirt, a bra on his head and another bra on his chest while walking past the home. Police said the clothing items were taken from an unlocked pickup truck. The man, who is seen on the video trying to scare a cat on the front porch of the home, also took cleaning supplies, change and other clothing items from the truck. The 
security camera footage shows the man narrowly avoid capture when a Riverside County Sheriff's Office patrol car passes by the pickup truck while he's inside. "We have had incidents where stuff has been stolen, but never like this, where some guy is completely naked, and at a point in the video you actually see him sniffing the bra," Vidal Coronel, daughter of the truck's owner, told KESQ-TV. Coronel said the clothing items belong to her sister, who has been using the pickup truck to move. "We all have kids here, and for this guy to be walking around in a bra and a skirt stealing, and he could go into someone's house and do something worse," Coronel said.          


Somewhat Useless Information
--Fathom derives from the Ango-Saxon word "faetm" meaning to embrace. In those days, most measurements were based on average size of parts. A fathom is the average distance from fingertip to fingertip of the outstretched arms of a man - about six feet. 
--The Battle of Surigao Strait, fought in 1944 in Philippines between Allied naval forces and naval forces of the Empire of Japan, was the last battle-line action in history. Yamashiro and her American opponents were the last battleships to engage another battleship in combat.
--The Battle of the Coral Sea, fought in 1942, was was the first fleet action in which aircraft carriers engaged each other. The battle is considered a tactical victory for Japan since the United States carrier USS Lexington was lost, while Japan only lost the light carrier Shoho in the battle.
--No self-respecting boatswain's mate would dare admit he couldn't blow his pipe in a manner above reproach. This pipe, which is the emblem of the boatswain and his mates, has an ancient and interesting history. On the ancient row-galleys, the boatswain used his pipe to call the stroke. Later because its shrill tune could be heard above most of the activity on board, it was used to signal various happenings such as knock-off and the boarding of officials. So essential was this signaling device to the well-being of the ship that it became a badge of office and honor in the British and American Navy of the sailing ships.
--The word scuttlebutt is a Navy term for rumor. Comes from a combination of the word "scuttle" to make a hole in the ship's side, causing her to sink, and "butt", a cask used to hold drinking water. Scuttlebutt literally means a cask with a hole in it. Scuttle describes what most rumors accomplish if not to the ship, at least to morale. Butt describes the water cask where men naturally congregated, and that's where most rumors get started.
--Port and starboard are shipboard terms for left and right, respectively. Confusing those two could cause a ship wreck. In Old England, the starboard was the steering paddle or rudder, and ships were always steered from the right side on the back of the vessel. Larboard referred to the left side, the side on which the ship was loaded. So how did larboard become port? Shouted over the noise of the wind and the waves, larboard and starboard sounded too much alike. The word port means the opening in the "left" side of the ship from which cargo was unloaded. Sailors eventually started using the term to refer to that side of the ship.

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Birthday’s Today
Smokey Robinson, R&B singer-songwriter (The Miracles) is 75
Lou Christie [Lugee Sacco], singer-songwriter (Lightning Striking Again) is 72
Jeff Daniels, actor (Something Wild) is 60
Seal (Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel), English vocalist/songwriter (Killer) is 52
Justine Bateman, actress (Mallory-Family Ties) is 49
Benicio Del Toro, Puerto Rico, actor (Licence to Kill) is 48
Mariana Ochoa, Mexican singer and actress is 36
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Remembered for being born today
Cedric Hardwicke, actor (Peter Pan) 1893-1964@71
Merle Oberon, Calcutta, actress (Assignment Foreign Legion) 1911-1979@68
Stan Kenton, [Newcomb], jazz musician (Music 55) 1911-1979@67
Lee Marvin, actor (Paint Your Wagon, Cat Ballou), 1924-1987@63
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Historical Obits Today
Deng Xiaoping, head (Chinese Communist Party), 1997, @92
Grandpa Jones, country comic/banjo wizard (Hee Haw), 1998, @84
Andre Gide, French writer (Nobel 1947), 1951, @81
Georgios Papanikolaou, Greek doctor, Pap smear, 1962, @78
Johnny PayCheck (Donald Eugene Lytle), country singer/songwriter, asthma, 2003, @64
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Brain Teasers Answers
INFERNO
CONDIMENT
HAUNTING
EXCELLENT
ORBITER
TAPESTRY
DISJOINT
FORTUNATE
ALLOVER
EMPATHY
PERCOLATE
ABANDON
DISCHARGE
ODOMETER
INCENTIVE
IMPOSTOR
BACHELOR
TEACHER

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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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