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Almanac: Week: 04 \ Day: 022
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 39°\L 26°
Ave. humidity: 77% Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave:
2mph\Gusts:
18mph
Ave. High: 43° Record High: 62° (1970)
Ave. Low: 17° Record Low: -30° (1937)
Observances
Today:
Celebration
of Life Day
Data
Innovation Day
National Answer Your Cat's
Question Day
National Blonde Brownie
Day
Roe
vs. Wade Day
Women's
Healthy Weight Day
Observances This
Week:
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed
Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week4
National Activity Professionals Week
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
19-25
No Name Calling Week
Sugar Awareness Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1506 - The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards
arrive at the Vatican
1599 - Spanish
attack the ACOMA PUEBLO
1690 - Iroquois tribes renew allegiance to British
against French
1771 - Spain cedes Falkland Islands to Britain
1831 - Charles Darwin takes his Bachelors of
Art exam
1879 - Zulu warriors attack British Army camp in
Isandhlwana South Africa
1881 - Ancient Egyptian obelisk "Cleopatra's
Needle" erected in Central Park, NY
1943 - Temperature rises 49°F (9°C) in 2 minutes in
Spearfish, SD
1946 - US president sets up CIA, Central Intelligence
Agency
1962 - The Organization of American States suspends
Cuba's membership
1968 - "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"
premieres
1973 - US, North & South Vietnam & Vietcong
sign boundary accord
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Strange weather day…overcast with light snow, heavy snow, wind,
sunshine, wind, light snow, sunshine. A little too windy for my taste.
When I got gas yesterday, I almost did the car wash too.
Thankfully I didn’t waste my money, as the snow today would have just dirtied it
up again.
Quick trip to Sam’s to find out my razor blades, that were $25 are
now $31. Then my cell phone bill went up a little, so I called. Turns out when
I voted for improved roads in Flagstaff and that raised all city taxes, including
the cell phone surcharge because cell towers with in the city of Flagstaff have
to pay the city to be here. Also the County taxes went up, but I don’t want to
call the county to find out why. I probably voted for a tax increase there too.
It was a small increase, sixty cents/month, it was just a surprise for my cell
phone. Our little mountain town needs to do a lot with the city roads, so no
complaints. The good news is that gas prices are way down.
I really enjoyed Obama’s speech last night. He certainly laid out
an impressive agenda…even though we all know most of it will be blocked. Nice
to hear positives for a change. Then I discovered that some of my Facebook ‘friends’
are pretty far right in their beliefs as several were posting some garbage
about Obama’s socialism. Just had to shake my head and smile that these people
are so brainwashed by FauxNews.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
do you use from your head to your toes and the more it works the thinner it
grows?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
Telly Savalas - Lovin' Understandin' Man Note: didn't know he sang.
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
70’s
Inventions…
1970
The daisy-wheel printer invented.
The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart
Easter
Eggs…check it out…
Searching for “recursion” in Google Search shows “Did you mean:
“recursion“, which allows you to recursively run searches for recursion.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
100 YEARS
AGO
Frank Lansing, who was wanted for breaking in through the basement
of the Eagles Hall on the night of Dec. 15 and stealing a lot of knives, pipes
and other stuff, was captured by Bobby Burns and brought to the County Jail on
Saturday last. He pleaded guilty on Tuesday before Judge Perkins and was
sentenced to one year in the penitentiary.
Flagstaff’s
Iconic 50…
Arizona
Snowbowl
Arizona Snowbowl is an icon of the Flagstaff area for ski and
snowboard enthusiasts who crave the downhill rush of hitting the slopes. It
also has become a place where people ride the chairlift to Agassiz Peak in the
summer and celebrate milestones such as weddings, anniversaries and memorials.
The idea for creating the facility emerged in the 1930s. Arizona
State Teachers College, now Northern Arizona University, advertised snowmen and
skiing to lure students and held the first winter carnival in 1933. The 20-30
Club — a national service organization — also promoted skiing. They sponsored a
sports day with 50-cent rentals to “try out the new fad.”
In 1935, Forester Ed Groesbeck arrived in Flagstaff as the timber
staff officer, responsible for timber sales, land usage and exchange, as well
as recreation. He saw the skiing possibilities. But with the Great Depression,
financial resources were limited.
Enter the Civilian Conservation Corps.
The CCC’s first task was cutting a road up to Agassiz. The Corps
also constructed a 95- by 25-foot lodge with three fireplaces, glass
observation deck, plus repair and storage facilities in 1940. The inaugural ski
event on the mountain took place 76 years ago in 1938, likely at Aspen Corner.
The next season saw an increase in activities and a contest was held to name
the ski area, and Arizona Snowbowl was selected.
Over the years, the ski area has expanded and added features.
Recently, it established snowmaking with reclaimed wastewater that is pumped up
to the facility. Though the effort has faced opposition for environmental and
cultural reasons, the owners moved forward with an interest in creating
predictable seasons.
Arizona Snowbowl’s notable history, growing use among regional
snow seekers and ongoing development have cemented the ski and snowboard
business and culture in Flagstaff and have made it an iconic attraction.
Sadly, the mountain is also sacred to several tribes in the area
and they see the ski area and the man-made reclaimed water’s artificial snow as
a desecration of holy land.
Harper’s
Index…
$24,000
Average amount paid on the black market to surrogate mothers in
China
Rules of
Thumb…
WHITE
COLLAR VS. BLUE COLLAR RULE OF BATHING
You are a white collar worker if you
need to bathe before work. You are a blue collar worker if you need to bathe
after work. You are very well paid if you need to bathe both before and after
work.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Jellyfish are 94 to 98% water!
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Joke-of-the-day
Q: Why did the computer lose its trust
relationship with the domain?
A: Because it was corrupted in active directory and needed to be removed and
re-added again!!!!
Yep, It
Really Happened
SACRAMENTO
(UPI)
Authorities in California said a man who wound up in the back of a
garbage truck survived by building "a coffin around himself" from
trash. Yolo County Sheriff's Lt. Martin Torres said the man, whose name was not
released, was searching through a Sacramento-area garbage bin for his wallet
Dec. 13 when the bin was dumped into the garbage truck. "The man said he
was stuck in the truck for about an hour, but estimates show it was more like
three or three and a half hours," Torres told the Woodland Daily Democrat.
"The truck made several other pick-ups before arriving at the landfill,
where the driver saw the man crawl out of his trash pile." Torres told the
Sacramento Bee the man used objects around him in the back of the truck to
"build a coffin around himself" and keep from being crushed by the
compactor. "He was lucky the truck was only half full," Torres said.
"Had it been full, he would have certainly been crushed and suffocated to
death." Torres said a bulldozer at the Yolo County Landfill nearly ran
over the man after the truck dumped its load, but the truck driver spotted the
man and alerted the bulldozer driver in time. "The driver was pretty much
a hero for that," Torres said. Authorities said the man appeared to be
uninjured, but complained of neck and back pain. He was taken to a hospital for
an examination. "While our driver had no idea of anyone in his load, we're
very glad and proud of our driver for spotting the man while dumping out his
truck at the landfill," said Nick Sikich, chief operating officer of
Sacramento-based Atlas Disposal. "If he hadn't, the landfill equipment
could have come along and buried him. We hope the man is OK and had a speedy
recovery from any injuries."
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Brown
bears live in the forests and mountains of northern North America, Europe, and
Asia and according to the National Geographic, it is the most widely
distributed bear in the world.
--In
coastal British Columbia and Alaska, and on islands such as Kodiak someone can
find the largest brown bears.
--However,
despite their enormous size, brown bears are extremely fast, having been
clocked at speeds of 30 miles per hour (48 kilometers per hour), so as fast as
a race horse!
--Great
white sharks can be found in the coastal surface waters of all major oceans and
they are mainly known for its size, with mature individuals growing up to 6.4 m
in length or even over 8 m in some cases.
--According
to the National Geographic, great white sharks can detect one drop of blood in
25 gal (100 L) of water and can sense even tiny amounts of blood in the water
up to 3 mi (5 km) away.
--Humans
are not the preferred prey of the great white shark, although the great white
shark is by far responsible for the largest number of fatal unprovoked attacks
on humans.
--Unlike
most sharks, the great white shark is warm-blooded!
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Today’s
Events through History
1517 - Turks conquer Cairo
1673 - Postal service between New York & Boston
inaugurated
1918 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German
puppet)
1947 - KTLA TV channel 5 in LA, begins broadcasting
1st commercial TV station west of Mississippi
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Birthday’s
Today
Graham
Kerr, chef (Galloping Gourmet) is 81
Joseph
Wambaugh, American police writer (Onion Fields) is 78
Linda
Blair, actress (Exorcist) is 56
Diane
Lane, American actress (The Perfect Storm,) is 50
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Remembered
for being born today
Francis
Bacon, statesman/essayist 1561-1626@65
Lord [George
Gordon Noel] Byron, romantic poet
(Don Juan) 1788-1824@36
D.W.
Griffith, film director/producer (Birth of a Nation) 1875-1948@73
[Sithu] U Thant, Burma,
3rd UN sec-genl 1909-1974@65
Sam Cooke, soul
singer (You Send Me), 1931-1964@33
Bill
Bixby, actor (Incredible Hulk, My Favorite Martian), 1934-1993@59
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Historical
Obits Today
Rose
Fitzgerald Kennedy, mother JFK, RFK, & Ted, 1995, @104
Joe
Paterno, College Hall of Fame football coach, 2012, @ 85
Victoria,
[Alexandrine], Britain's Queen 1901, @81
Telly
Savalas, actor (Kojak), prostate cancer, 1994, @72
Lyndon B.
Johnson, 36th US President, heart attack, 1973, @64
Ali
Hassan Salameh, [Abu Hassan], car bomb; believed to have helped mastermind
massacre of 1972 Munich Olympics athletes, 1979, @39
Heath
Ledger, Australian actor, OD, 2008, @28
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Brain Teasers Answers
Soap
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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…§
