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Almanac: Week: 02 \ Day: 007
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 50°\L 21°
Ave. humidity: 68% Average Sky Cover: 0%
Wind ave: 4mph\Gusts: 18mph
Ave. High: 42° Record
High: 63° (1914)
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -17° (1913)
Observances
Today:
Harlem
Globetrotter's Day
I'm
Not Going To Take It Anymore Day
International
Programmers' Day
National
Tempura Day
Old Rock Day
Orthodox
Christmas
Observances This
Week:
1-7
New
Year's Resolutions Week
Celebration of Life Week
Diet Resolution Week
Silent Record Week
2-8
Someday
We'll Laugh About This Week
4-11
Home
Office Safety and Security Week
National Folic Acid Awareness Week
National Lose Weight/Feel Great Week
6-9
International
Consumer Electronics Show
7-10
Elvis'
Birthday Celebration Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1608 - Fire
destroys Jamestown, Virginia
1714 - Typewriter
patented by Englishman Henry Mill (built years later)
1784 - 1st US
seed business established by David Landreth, Philadelphia
1802 - President
Thomas Jefferson believes the Indians have more land than they need.
1822 - Liberia colonized by Americans
1830 - 1st US
Railroad Station opens (Baltimore)
1911 - 1st
airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF
1914 - 1st
steamboat passes through Panama Canal
1929 - "Tarzan," one of the 1st adventure
comic strips, 1st appears
1934 - "Flash
Gordon" comic strip (by Alex Raymond) debuts
1959 - US
recognizes Fidel Castro's Cuban government
1968 - "GE
College Bowl" quiz show premieres on NBC TV
1971 - -40°F
(-40°C), Hawley Lake, Ariz (state record)
1999 - Impeachment
trial of President Bill Clinton begins in the US Senate
2007 - Phil
Jackson wins his 900th game as a head coach, becoming the fastest coach to
reach 900 career wins
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Great blue sky day with some warm weather here in Flag. Spent a
little time walking around the neighborhood.
Too nice a day to get into news stuff.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
Six
words have had their vegetables removed. The vegetables have been placed into
Group A. The remaining letters of each word have been placed into Group B. Your
task is to reconstitute the words by merging each vegetable with the proper set
of letters. Other than merging the two groups together, there is no rearranging
of the letters. Example: sand + pne = spanned (SpANneD).
Group A: bean, beet, corn, kale, pea, radish
Group B: acdio, bning, lieb, nfi, rthig, scagot
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
50’s
Inventions…
1955
Tetracycline invented.
Optic fiber invented.
Education
Facts…
<> The University of Victoria offers a course in the science
of Batman.
<> Before making Finding Nemo, the animation gurus at Pixar
Studios had to take a graduate class in fish biology and oceanography.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
J.L. Dougherty had an auto accident last Saturday. He broke two
ribs and has enumerable bruises. The accident occurred near the divide on the
Grand Canyon Road. He turned his head for just a moment to shove his gun under
the seat, his machine swerved and turned over into the ditch. Later William
Campbell came upon him and brought him into town.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
The FUTS
The Flagstaff Urban Trails System (FUTS, say "foots") is
a city-wide network of non-motorized, shared-use pathways that are used by
bicyclists, walkers, hikers, runners, and other users for both recreation and
transportation.
At present there are just over 50 miles of FUTS trails in
Flagstaff. The overall master plan shows about 80 miles of future trails, to
complete a planned system of 130 miles.
About half of the miles of existing trails are paved, either in
concrete or asphalt, and half consist of a hard-packed, aggregate surface. FUTS
trails are generally eight or ten feet in width.
FUTS trails offer an incredibly diverse range of experiences; some
trails are located along busy streets, while others traverse beautiful natural
places - canyons, riparian areas, grasslands, meadows, and forests - all within
the urban area of Flagstaff. The system connects neighborhoods, shopping,
places of employment, schools, parks, open space, and the surrounding National
Forest, and allows users to combine transportation, recreation and contact with
nature.
With a few exceptions, FUTS trails are operated and maintained by
the City of Flagstaff.
According to the City of Flagstaff Citizen Survey 2009, 78 percent
of Flagstaff residents have used the FUTS trail system in the last year.
Harper’s
Index…
250,000,000
Estimated number of women worldwide who were married before the
age of 15
Rules of
Thumb…
SIZE
MATTERS
The effectiveness of a team decreases as
the size of the team increases beyond 7 members.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
New York Tribune founder Horace Greeley is best
known for saying, “Go West, young man.” Problem is, he didn’t say it. The quote
actually came from Indiana newspaper editor John B.L. Soule. In fact, Greeley’s
own comments regarding the West were less than encouraging. In 1859, while
traveling across Utah, he wrote, “The desolation seems irredeemable.” Twelve
years later, he proclaimed, “This Daniel Boone business is about played out.”
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Joke-of-the-day
A cop pulls a young guy over:
"Hello officer" said the smart aleck kid.
"Young man did you see that stop sign?" asked the cop.
“Yup, but I didn't see you! “
Yep, It
Really Happened
In Wisconsin a postal carrier said he simply wanted to cheer up a
woman on his rounds who seemed "stressed out" so he decided to
deliver her mail naked.
He even told her he was going to do it. As a prank, I suppose. But whether she
took him seriously or not, there was no doubting his sincerity when he showed
up at her office wearing only a smile and his mail bag.
Those wacky letter carriers.
The 52-year-old was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior several days
later.
But a much more hilarious situation occurred on a commuter train in Scarsdale,
New York.
A woman named Briggs was minding her own business on the train when she noticed
a man standing unusually close to her.
When she looked down she noticed he had his penis out and was trying to rub it
up against her.
Instead of doing what a lot of women would do and just walk (or run) away, she
called him out, loudly, and recruited the other passengers in the car to make
sure he didn't leave until the police could be called.
In the ensuing minutes every single passenger with a camera phone was taking
video of the dumb bastard. One of the videos which made it onto youtube more
than 800,000 hits before it was taken down.
51-year-old Queens man, was sentenced to four months in jail for forcible
touching.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Dead
Poets Society, the 1989 American drama film directed by Peter Weir and
starring Robin Williams, has recently garnered a lot of recent attention
due to Robin Williams’ passing.
Here
are six trivia facts you may not know about the movie:
-The
movie was loosely based on the screenwriter’s life.
-The
main character, John Keating, was based on the two of Schulman’s teachers.
-The
studio considered turning ‘Dead Poets Society’ into a musical
-Originally,
Jeff Kanew, who did ‘Revenge of the nerds’, was going to direct it
-Dustin
Hoffman was going to direct and star in the movie.
-In
the screenpley, John Keating is dying of cancer.
Gizmos
WASHINGTON (UPI)
Researchers
at NASA are working to improve the memory of the Mars exploration rover
Opportunity after a series of glitches in recent weeks led to what officials
are describing as "amnesia" within the its memory banks.
The rover relies on orbital passes from the Mars Odyssey satellite to relay
communications and commands to and from NASA, but when a pass does not occur
between the rover's power cycles -- a relatively frequent occurrence -- the
rover fails to transfer information from its temporary RAM to its permanent
flash memory. The rover's repeated attempts and fails to save data to the flash
memory cause it to it reboot, essentially erasing its last set of commands
received.
"Volatile memory is like the traditional RAM you have in your computer;
non-volatile memory uses flash memory technology," Mars Exploration Rover
Project Manager John Callas, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena,
Calif., told Discovery News.
"So now we're having these events we call 'amnesia,' which is the rover
trying to use the flash memory, but it wasn't able to, so instead it uses the
RAM ... it stores telemetry data in that volatile memory, but when the rover
goes to sleep and wakes up again, all (the data) is gone. So that's why we call
it amnesia -- it forgets what it has done."
Opportunity has been working without flash memory since earlier in December,
when NASA first reported the memory problems.
"While we're operating Opportunity in that mode, we are also working on an
approach to make the flash memory usable again," Callas said at the time.
"We will be sure to give this approach exhaustive reviews before
implementing those changes on the rover."
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Today’s
Events through History
1610 - Galileo discovers
1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede
1618 - Francis
Bacon becomes Lord Chancellor of England
1896 - Fannie
Farmer publishes her 1st cookbook "The Boston Cooking-School Cook
Book"
1967 - "Newlywed
Game" premieres on ABC TV
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Birthday’s
Today
William
Peter Blatty, author/director (The Exorcist), is 87
Kenny
Loggins, singer (Loggins and Messina-Footloose) is 67
Erin Gray, TV
actress is 65
Katie
Couric, [Katherine], Arlington VA, TV news host (Today) is 58
Rand Paul, United
States Senator, is 52
Nicolas
Cage, [Coppola], actor (Moonstruck) is 51
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Remembered
for being born today
Millard
Fillmore, Locke NY, (Whig) 13th president 1874@74
St
Bernadette (Marie-Bernarde Soubirous), 1844(?), religious visionary 1879 @35
Alan
Napier, Birmingham England, actor (Alfred-Batman) 1988@85
Charles
Addams, cartoonist (New Yorker, Addams Family) 1988@76
Paul
Revere, pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders) 2014@76
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Historical
Obits Today
Nikola
Tesla, Serbian-American physicist (tesla motor), 1943, @86
Philip D.
Eastman, American children's book writer and illustrator, 1986, @76
Trevor
Howard, actor (Ryan's Daughter), bronchitis, 1988, @71
Allan
Ramsay Sr, Scottish poet (Gentle Shepherd), 1758, @71
Catherine of Aragon, 1st
wife of King Henry VIII, cancer\poison?, 1536, @50
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Brain Teasers Answers
bean + rthig = breathing (BrEAthiNg)
beet + nfi = benefit (BEnEfiT)
corn + acdio = accordion (aCcORdioN)
kale + lieb = likeable (liKeAbLE)
pea + scagot = scapegoat (scaPEgoAt)
radish + bning = brandishing (bRAnDISHing)
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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…§
