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Almanac: Week: 16 \ Day: 106
April
Averages: 58°\27°
86004
Today: H 57°\L 29° Average Sky Cover: 10%
Wind
ave: 31mph\Gusts: 11mph
Ave. High: 59° Record High: 77°
(1948) Ave. Low: 27° Record
Low: 13° (1995)
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Observances Today:
Celebrate
Teen Literature Day
Get
to Know Your Customers Day
High
Five Day
National
Eggs Benedict Day
National
Librarian Day
National
Stress Awareness Day
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Observances This Week:
12-18
Animal Control Officer Appreciation
Week
Health Information Privacy and Security
Week
National Animal Control Appreciation
Week
National Library Week
National Public Safety
Telecommunicators (911 Operators) Week
National Student Employment Week
National Volunteer Week
Pan American Week
Undergraduate Research Week
Week of The Young Child
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Quote of the Day
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US Historical Highlights for Today
1862 - Slavery
abolished in District of Columbia
1922 - Annie
Oakley sets women's record by breaking 100 clay targets in a row
1937 -Tucson grocers
moved to eliminate unfair merchandising methods. A
minimum operation price was set at 6 percent
over cost.
1940 - 1st
televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1943 - Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic
effects of LSD
1962 - Brazil
nationalizes US businesses
1962 - Walter
Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News
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Today’s World Events through History
1178 BC - A solar
eclipse may have marked the return of Odysseus, legendary
King of Ithaca, to his kingdom after
the Trojan War
1705 - Queen
Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College, Cambridge
1746 - Battle
of Culloden, the last battle on British soil: Royalist troops under
the Duke of Cumberland defeat the Jacobite
army.
1972 - 2 British soldiers are shot dead by the
Official Irish Republican Army
(OIRA) in separate incidents in Derry
2012 - For the first time since 1977 no Pulitzer
Prize is awarded for fiction
2014 - South Korean
ferry MV Sewol sinks on route Incheon to Jeju, 304 drown,
mostly
students. National controversy erupts over rescue efforts and actions
of crew and owner
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
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My Rambling Thoughts
Total incompetency…Century link bill arrived with both modems
charged to my account. Called. They will credit me for their mistake…next
month. So I pay a $350 bill this month and then have credit show up for the
next month. Crazy bureaucracy.
And to talk about spin… a cop rammed a man carrying a gun outside Tucson,
back in February. It hit the internet a couple of days ago…probably because of
the new scrutiny of Police around the country. The guy survived, admittedly was
carrying a gun which had fired into the air. One cop watches him from his
vehicle, another cop comes out of nowhere and rams the guy. The guy survives
and the cops spin is that it was better to ram him than to let him fire again.
Maybe, but seems pretty brutal.
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Brain Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
In
each of the cases below, scramble the letters and then add an X at the end to
make a new word.
Example: coven + x = convex
1) real + x =
2) torah + x =
3) compel + x =
4) claim + x =
5) nasty + x =
6) hoboes + x =
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Found on You Tube with some
relevance to today
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS AGO-1940
~ Paramount men are here seeking Indian
actors who will be taken to Hollywood, where Cecil DeMille’s “Northwest Mounted
Police" will be filmed.
~ There’s good news for the users of
electricity by the Flagstaff Electrical Light Co. The rates are cut from 9
cents to 8 cents per kilowatt hour for the first 25 kwh per month, then to 5.5
cents for the next 25 kwh. All in excess
will be at 3 cents per kwh. All this is made possible by the increased use and
improved facilities. George T. Herrington, Manager.
~ 500 ornamental trees and shrubs for
curb planting have been purchased and will be at the city nursery for 2-3 years
until they are large enough to be placed in their permanent locations.
…Harper’s
Index…
1/8: estimated portion of black US men who are ineligible to vote
because of a felony conviction
…Language
Facts…
~ The word "listen" contains the same letters as
"silent."
~ The words ‘racecar,’ ‘kayak’ and ‘level’ are the same whether
they are read left to right or right to left (palindromes).
… Sea Facts…
~ More than a dozen men have stood on the surface of the moon, but
only three have been to Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, the deepest
known spot in the ocean.
~ NYC's Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) dumps old subway cars
into the ocean to serve as artificial reef.
…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
~ The Rams were the first pro football team to decorate their
helmets. An early version of the "horn" motif is still used by the
franchise today.
…Water Facts..,.
~ Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
~ Water is actually naturally blue.
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2 jokes
for the day
Why did Dorothy get lost in Oz?
She had three men giving her directions.
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A woman walked up to a little old man rocking
in a chair on his porch. "I couldn't help noticing how happy you
look," she said. "What's your secret for a long happy life?"
"I smoke three packs of cigarettes a day," he said. "I also
drink a case of whiskey a week, eat fatty foods, and never exercise."
"That's amazing," said the woman, "how old are you?"
"Twenty-Six" he said.
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Yep, It
Really Happened
ST. PAUL,
Minn. (UPI) - The Minnesota Senate voted to keep rules banning senators from
making eye contact during floor debate and from having drinking water on the
floor. Sen. Warren Limmer, R-Maple Grove, spoke in favor of striking the rule
that bars senators from looking at one another during floor debate, requiring
them to instead keep their eyes on the Senate president. "I find this
particular rule of the Senate, dare I say, antiquated," Limmer said.
However, Senate Majority Leader Tom Bakk, D-Cook, said the rule is still
relevant to the process. He said looking at one another during debates could
cause deliberations to become personal. "Our decorum would probably not be
as Senate-like as we would like to have it" if the rule was changed, Bakk
said. The Senate sided with Bakk in a 15-44 vote. The body also voted 10-51
Monday to keep a longstanding ban on beverages, including water, on the floor
of the Senate. The votes earned the Senate some ribbing on Twitter from
colleagues in the Minnesota House of Representatives. "Long Live the
House! Where even Senators can come over and drink water on the House
Floor," Rep. Tim Sanders, R-37B, tweeted. "Other Senate rules: use
secret handshake, speak in iambic pentameter, drag Stone of Shame if you
violate a rule," tweeted Rep. Mike Freiberg, D-45B.
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Somewhat
Useless Information
~
On average, humans sleep three hours less than other primates. Chimps, rhesus
monkeys, and baboons sleep ten hours per night.
~ When we sleep, we drift between rapid-eye movement (REM) sleep and non-REM
sleep in alternating 90-minute cycles.
~ Elephants stand while they're dozing in non-REM sleep, but once REM sleep
kicks in, they lie down. Ducks are constantly at risk of being attacked by
predators, so they keep half their brain awake while they sleep.
~ Studies have shown that our bodies experience diminished capacity after we've
been awake for 17 hours, and we behave as if we were legally drunk.
~ At least 10 percent of all people sleepwalk at least once in their lives, and
men are more likely to sleepwalk than women.
~ During their first year, babies cause between 400 and 750 hours of lost sleep
for parents.
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Birthday’s Today
88 - Pope Benedict
XVI [Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger], Catholic Pope (2005-2013)
80 - Bobby Vinton,
Pitts Pa, singer (Roses are Red, Blue on Blue)
68 - Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, [Lew Alcindor], NBA center (Mil Bucks, LA Lakers)
63 - Bill Belichick,
football coach (New England Patriots, 3 Super Bowls)
50 - Jon Cryer, actor (Pretty in Pink, Two
and a Half Men)
50 - Martin Lawrence,
comedian (Martin)
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Remembered for being born today
- Charles 'Charlie'
Chaplin, actor/comedian (City Lights) 1889-1977@88
- Anatole France,
writer (Thaïs, Wickerwork Woman, Nobel 1921) 1844-1924@80
- Gerry Rafferty,
Paisley Scotland, guitarist/vocalist (Baker Street) 1947-2011@63
- John Hadley,
mathematician/inventor (1st reflecting telescope) 1682-1744@61
- Dusty
Springfield, [Mary O'Brien], vocalist 1939-1999@59
- Wilbur Wright,
Millville Indiana, aviator (Wright Brothers) 1867-1912@45
- Selena
[Quintanilla], tejano vocalist 1971-1995@23
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Historical Obits Today
Marie
[Gresholtz] Tussaud, maker of
wax figures-1850@88
Daryl
Gates, LAPD Chief (DARE)-2010@83
Pat
Summerall, NFL player \ sportscaster, 2013@82
Ralph
Waldo Ellison, US writer (Invisible Man), dies at 80
Neville
Brand, American actor (Stalag 17), emphysema-1992@71
Robert
Urich, actor (Spencer for Hire), cancer, 2002@55
Alexis de
Tocqueville, French historian-TB-1859@53
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Brain Teasers Answers
1) Relax
2) Thorax
3) Complex
4) Climax
5) Syntax
6) Shoebox
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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…§
