10/24/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 43/ Day: 297   
Today: L 25°…H 66°… Ave. humidity: 47%
Wind: ave:   2mph; Gusts:  8mph  
Average Low: 28° Record Low:  9° (1975)
Average High: 60° Record High:  79° (1959)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
"Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%...1929
18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan…1964
1st NY subway opens…1904
1st woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the US…1956 
1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)…1901
40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)…1940
Camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth 
     from outer space…1946
George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ dedicated, opens the next day…1931
Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica…2012
Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State…1922
KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting…1953
Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese…1871
Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)…1939
Police arrest Beltway snipers in Washington, DC….2002
Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud…1989
Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis…1882
US blockade of Cuba begins…1962
US forbids child labor in factories…1938
West Virginia seceded from Virginia…1861

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays


My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Beautiful day, high clouds, can’t complain about the weather.
 
The straw of that infamous camel’s back was finally broken today. CVS pharmacy in Flagstaff will no longer be my pharmacy…after almost 8 years. Stopped in to get an eye drop script filled and pick up my Lipitor script. They said it would be 35 min, so I decided to get my flu shot while waiting. Filled out the forms, waited 20 minutes and had the pharmacist finally call me to the window to be told they didn’t have the ‘patient information sheet’ and so I couldn’t get the shot. Talked to the store manager who told me to call the Pharmacy overseerer, Bert. I decided to pick up the two scripts when I get the shot next week. Called the number and was told it Bert would contact me within 2 business days. Unacceptable. The lady said that was corporate policy. About 2 hours after this the pharmacy called to say that my Lipitor would not be ready since they didn’t have it on hand. Then Bert called. He admitted that there were serious problems at that store and he didn’t know how long it would take to fix it. I told him that I would pick up my scripts, get my shot and no longer shop there. He said he was sorry. Then about 10 minutes later the pharmacy called to say I could get my flu shot as the district manager had told them how to print it out on the magic computer and that my Lipitor would be in tomorrow. We’ll see, but that will be my last trip there.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
In this teaser you must place a 3-letter word on the dashes to complete a word on the left and to begin another word with those letters on the right.
Example: e a r _ _ _ m e = e a r T H Y/ T H Y m e
1. f e a t _ _ _ o i c = ? 2. c o u r _ _ _ n d a = ? 3. d i s p _ _ _ o v e r = ? 4. k e e _ _ _ s i s t = ? 5. r u n _ _ _ i c e = ?

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias
If you have an irrational fear of... Hair disease
You're suffering from... Trichopathophobia Greek: tricho ‘hair’ Pathos ‘suffering’
If you have an irrational fear of... Heart attack
You're suffering from... Anginophobia Greek angina ‘suffocation’
OK Then…

Harper’s Index 
  • Number of hours Chinese workers held the head of a US company hostage in June during a labor dispute: 162
  • Amout the company paid to secure his release: $300,000

Amazing Facts About The Human Body
Heat In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.
Unusual Fact of the Day
The only U.S. sports teams whose names don't end in 'S' are: the Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz, and Oklahoma City Thunder (NBA); the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox (MLB); and the Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Minnesota Wild (NHL).


Joke-of-the-day
Two drunks are walking along. One drunk says to the other, "What a beautiful night, look at the moon."
The other drunk stops and looks at his drunken friend, "You are wrong. That's not the moon, that's the sun."
Both started arguing for a while when they came upon another drunk walking, so they stopped him. "Sir, could you please help settle our argument? Tell us what that thing is up in the sky that's shining. Is it the moon or the sun?"
The third drunk looked at the sky and then looked at them and said, "Sorry, I don't live around here."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
SOARING
When flying a sailplane on a cross-country flight, expect thermals to be five times as far apart as they are high.
Yeah, It Really Happened
 The students wanted the answers to a math problem set, but it looks like their T.A. forgot to check her work.
Earlier this week, students in a math for business class at the University of Iowa, which is quickly becoming a college of ill repute for its debauchery and general WTF-ness, received an email from their math T.A. that was supposed to contain answers to their homework.
But when they opened the attached .zip files for "the solutions for number 76 and 78," they got an eyeful of their T.A. and her male companion. The images were obtained, allegedly via students, by humor sites like Total Frat Move, which published a description of the homemade porn.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Tired of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet in the solar system – Venus. At over 800 degrees, it is hotter than Mercury because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide hold in most of the heat received from the sun.
  • Ever notice on a map how the South American and African coasts, along the Atlantic, fit together like two pieces of a giant puzzle? That is because at one time, millions of years ago, they were one continent. Magma from deep in the Earth broke through thin places between these continents and pushed them apart. They are still slowly moving apart and the Atlantic ocean is growing wider.
  • The lead in pencils, really graphite, is made of the exact same thing as diamonds. Both are pure carbon which just formed under different pressures and temperatures. Intense heat and pressure form the carbon atoms into crystals making diamond, while lesser heat and pressure form the carbon into sheets making graphite.
  • Geologists have discovered there seems to be more water miles deep between the rocks of Earths mantle than in all the oceans of the world. The intense pressure of the tons of rocks above keeps the hot water from turning to steam and escaping.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
17-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
20-26
Freedom of Speech Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week  
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week 
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week  
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 
National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week
National Save For Retirement Week
Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week 
Ally Week
Kids Care Week
21-25
National School Bus Safety Week 
National Nuclear Science Week
Disarmament Week
Peace, Friendship and Good Will Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
24-11/11
World Origami Days

Today Is                                                                      
·        Food Day
·        United Nations Day
·        World Information Day Development
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·        New Zealand: Labor Day
·        Zambia: Independence Day (1964 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  
1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Wash DC)…1861
John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone…1973
Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty…1881
NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike…1987
Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity…1980
Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire…1648
William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus…1851

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Kevin Kline, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill) is 66
B.D. Wong, actor (Law & Order) is 53
Tila Tequila, model and TV personality is 32

Remembered for being born today
David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland [1378-1402]
James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States [1855-1912]
Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace) [1930-1959]
Moss Hart, Bronx, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)[1904-1961]
Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves) [1891-1976]
Jack Warner, [Waters], London England, actor (Christmas Carol) [1895-1981]
Bob Kane, American cartoonist (Batman) [1915-1998]
David Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet) [1936-2011]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Margaret Osborne DuPont, American tennis player…2012…@94
Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist…2005…@92
Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs…fall from horse…1852…@70
Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek)…cardiac arrest…1991…@70
Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader…heart disease…1842…@64
Richard Hofstadter, US historian…leukemia…1970…@54
Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)…heart disease…1972…@53
Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII…childbirth infection…1537…@28ish

Brain Teasers
1. featHER / HERoic 2. courAGE / AGEnda 3. dispLAY / LAYover 4. keePER / PERsist 5. runOFF / OFFice
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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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10/23/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 43/ Day: 296   
Today: L 23°…H 63°… Ave. humidity: 44%
Wind: ave:   3mph; Gusts:  10mph  
Average Low: 29° Record Low:  10° (1906)
Average High: 60° Record High:  76° (2003)

Quote of the Day


Today’s Historical Highlights
1st Jewish prayer books printed in US…1760
1st plastic surgery is performed (England)…1814
25,000 women march in NYC, demanding right to vote…1915
Apple releases the iPod…2001
NAACP petition on racism, "An Appeal to the World" presented to UN…1947
Outbreak of the Irish Rebellion - Catholic uprising in Ulster…1641
Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart of London demolishes wooden London 
      Bridge…1091 
USSR lends money to UAR to build Aswan High Dam…1958
Walt Disney's "Dumbo" released…1941

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Great day, blue sky, no wind, fairly nice temperatures…gotta love this mountain town.

So HHS tries out the health care website about a week before it is made live for the public. With 200 users it crashes. The Secretary knew it and decided not to bother the President, her immediate supervisor. Now she says they are bringing in the A-Team. Her answer: The store is open and the shelves are full. And this woman still has her job? Unbelievable. Not that her resignation will fix anything, but it would show that Obama expects excellence. I guess in the end it doesn’t matter since anyone sighning up won’t be covered until January anyway…we are just trained to be ‘in the minute’.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Can you figure out what A.A. Milne was referring to in this verse from his "When We Were Very Young" book?
She wore her yellow sun-bonnet, She wore her greenest gown; She turned to the south wind And curtsied up and down. She turned to the sunlight And shook her yellow head, And whispered to her neighbour: "Winter is dead."

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias
If you have an irrational fear of... Growing old
You're suffering from... Gerascophobia Greek Gerasco ‘old age’
If you have an irrational fear of... Hair
You're suffering from... Trichophobia Greek trikhos ‘hair’
OK Then…


Harper’s Index 
  • Number of refugees and internally displaced people in the world last year: 43,300,000
  • Last year in which there were as many: 1994

Amazing Facts About The Human Body
Eye Muscles The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
Unusual Fact of the Day
In the Roman Empire, going blonde wasn’t exactly a fashion statement. At the time, light-colored hair was associated with the barbarian women of Gaul and Germany who often ended up as slaves in brothels. Consequently, Roman law required all prostitutes to dye their hair blonde in order to distinguish themselves from “proper,” dark-maned ladies.


Joke-of-the-day
Two small county judges both got arrested for speeding on the same day. Rather than call the state Supreme Court for a visiting judge, each agreed to hear the other's case.
The first judge took the bench while the second stood at the defendant's table, and admitted his guilt. The sentencing judge immediately suspended both the fine and costs.
They switched places. The second judge admitted that he was speeding, too. Thereupon the first judge immediately fined him $250 and ordered him to pay court costs.
The second judge was furious. "I suspended your fine and costs, but you threw the book at me!", he fumed. The first judge looked at him and replied, "This is the second such case we've had in here today. Someone has to get tough about all this speeding!"  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
LISTENING TO YOUR ENGINE KNOCK
If your engine knocks during acceleration, it's probably the connecting rod. If the engine knocks during deceleration, it's probably the piston wrist pin. If you have piston slap (too much room between the piston and cylinder wall), the knock will be loudest when the engine is cold and idling.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
A high ranking member of a once-powerful drug clan was assassinated during a children's party by a gunman dressed as a clown, authorities said Saturday.
Francisco Rafael Arellano Felix, the oldest brother of the Arellano Felix cartel, was shot in the chest and the head at a rental house at the Cabo San Lucas resort on the Baja California peninsula, multiple outlets reported.
The killer's disguise included a wig and a round, red nose, officials told The Associated Press. A motive for the killing was not immediately clear.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Tired of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet in the solar system – Venus. At over 800 degrees, it is hotter than Mercury because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide hold in most of the heat received from the sun.
  • Ever notice on a map how the South American and African coasts, along the Atlantic, fit together like two pieces of a giant puzzle? That is because at one time, millions of years ago, they were one continent. Magma from deep in the Earth broke through thin places between these continents and pushed them apart. They are still slowly moving apart and the Atlantic ocean is growing wider.
  • The lead in pencils, really graphite, is made of the exact same thing as diamonds. Both are pure carbon which just formed under different pressures and temperatures. Intense heat and pressure form the carbon atoms into crystals making diamond, while lesser heat and pressure form the carbon into sheets making graphite.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
17-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
20-26
Freedom of Speech Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week  
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week 
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week  
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 
National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week
National Save For Retirement Week
Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week 
Ally Week
Kids Care Week
21-25
National School Bus Safety Week 
National Nuclear Science Week
Disarmament Week
Peace, Friendship and Good Will Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        IPod Day
·        Medical Assistants Recognition Day
·        Mother-in-Law Day
·        National Mole Day
·        Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day
·        TV Talk Show Host Day
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·        Cambodia: Peace Treaty Day (1991 ending 21yrs of war)

Today’s Events through History  
1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)…1915
8th NYC Marathon won by Bill Rodgers in 2:11:38…1977
Clarence Thomas, sworn in as Supreme Court Justice…1991
Dutch Schultz and others fatally shot in New Jersey The Chophouse Massacre…1935
1st video recording on magnetic tape televised coast-to-coast…1956
Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park," premieres in NYC…1963
US national debt hits $1 trillion…1981

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento], Brazilian footballer (Player of the Century) is 73
Ang Lee, Taiwanese-born director (The Wedding Banquet, Brokeback Mountain) is 59
Dwight Yoakam, Pikeville Ky, country singer (Honky Tonk Man) is 57
Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew], California, parody singer is 54
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Doug Flutie, quarterback is 51
Ryan Reynolds, Canadian film and TV actor is 37

Remembered for being born today
Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany [1503-1539]
Samuel Morey, American inventor [1762-1843]
Adlai Stevenson, (D) 23rd VP [1835-1914]
Gummo Marx, American actor [1892(?)-1977]
Johnny Carson, comedian (Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust) [1925-2005]
Michael Crichton, novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker) [1942-2008]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Robert Merrill, American baritone…2004…@87
Maybelle Carter, country singer (Johnny Cash Show)…long illness…1978…@69
Zane Grey, US western writer (Spirit of the Border)…heart failure…1939…@67
Al Jolson, [Asa Yoelson], singer/actor (Jazz Singer)…heart attack…1950…@64
Christian Dior, French designer (New Look)…heart attack…1957…@52
Dutch Schultz [Arthur Flegenheimer], US gangster…murdered…1935…@33

Brain Teasers
A daffodil
The poem is exactly how A.A. Milne wrote it for his son Christopher Robin, and his collections of verse and stories of Winnie-the Pooh have been favourites of children all over the world. 
"When We Were Very Young" was first published on November 6th, 1924.

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 has mistakes and sadly once out 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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