10-07-11

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TODAY’s “Geez”                                                                                            .

1737 - 40 foot waves sink 20,000 small craft & kill 300,000 (Bengal, India)

1868 - Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens

1931 - 1st infra-red photograph, Rochester, NY

1944 - Uprising at Auschwitz, Jews burn down crematoriums

1984 - Walter Payton passes Jim Brown as NFL's career rushing leader

1998 - Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming

♪♪ HaPpY  BiRtHdAy to♪♪                                                                   .                     

Free Rambling Thoughts                                                                              .

Weather was a little windy, but we headed for Cameron anyway. We were able to see snow on the peaks and down pretty far on some of the mountains. Nice view for sure. Lunch was amazing. The ladies had mini-Navajo Tacos—hardly mini. I had ‘Navajo Stew’ but it was made with beef and quite good. I also got a huge hot fry bread. So nice. Mary’s 99 year old mom had to be moved to hospice yesterday. Sadly Mary says she is losing it mentally as well as physically. The good thing is that hospice can give her meds so she isn’t in pain or confrontational with staff and family. This is going to be tough on Mary, as she and her mom are close and used to talk every day. Mary’s brothers are nearby so that is good. Cheryl is preparing for winter at her house…cleaning out the shed, cleaning up the yard, and having ‘fun’ doing it.

I have been amazed today at the comments made on the passing of Steve Jobs by many of the younger adults in Flagstaff. A FB friend who attends NAU posted: “Yes, Jobs was quite an innovative man in the technology age. No, I am not a fan of his products. But the fact stands that there are people with equally important contributions to this world who don't get the same recognition he has.” OK, maybe. Then tonight on the local news, seven other NAU students were interviewed. While all 7 sound bites did talk about their ‘i-‘ whatever and how they liked or used it, four of them also said that he didn’t do it alone, and that others did the work. Yeah, but it was his drive, his leadership, his genius, that led his handpicked people to do it. He always wanted a perfect product that would be user-friendly that people couldn’t live without. His leadership in Apple made innovations that we didn’t even know we wanted, but found were exceptional. When other technology comes out with a new product it is--‘don’t buy, wait for the ‘fixes’ and the patches and then buy.’ With Apple, that never happened. It was ‘buy now because it works, is innovative, and a newer one will be out in a year or two.’ I am surprised that so many young adults don’t get that. I’m a PC guy and an Android guy. I wouldn’t have either is it wasn’t for Jobs.

I got a card today from one of the Grand Canyon travelers. I mention it because it was so unusual. The envelope was very ‘woo-woo’. The inside was a card with more ‘woo-woo’ drawings of fairies and stuff. She is in her late 60’s but has the handwriting of someone much older. She said she just wanted to let me know how much she enjoyed the trip, my company and that she was now settled back into her ballroom dancing. Weird for sure. She and her friend were supposed to call me when they got back form a few days in Sedona so we could go out to dinner…no mention as to why she didn’t call.

I was pleasantly surprised when ESPN did not play the Hank Williams, Jr. opening at Monday Night Football…it has been the song for over 20 years. They did this because Williams has compared Obama to Hitler in an interview. Williams has always been known as a ‘red-neck’ singer. His song is one of the most recognized of Rock Anthems. First his son said his dad was not a politician and should not have made the statement. Then Williams said he was wrong. That seems to have been the scenario for so many celebrity goofs. But not this time. First ESPN announced that they would not be using the Anthem again—ever. Within three minuets ol’ Hank said he had quit, not been fired, from ESPN and that his 1^st Amendment rights had been violated. This is far from over.

I also mentioned a candidate from Mesa who was running against our State Senate President in a recall election. On Monday, a judge said ‘let the people decide, she stays on the ballot’. Then on Tuesday the group trying to get her off had a private conversation with the judge, and said that they wanted another hearing because they now had ‘proof’ that Pearce and his people were behind her candidacy.  The judge then agreed to a new hearing Friday morning. There was a candidate forum tonight which should have had all three candidates. About an hour before the forum, the lady announced that she was withdrawing from the election. She said she didn’t have the money to fight the people against her. She didn’t show for the forum. Now it turns out that her campaign financing has to be reported to the election commission, along with all the other candidates, by Oct. 23—a couple of weeks before the election. This too, like all politics these days, won’t be over for some time. So unfortunate.

Trivia Quiz…(answers at the end of post)                                                 .

1.      What is the term in medicine given to the deficiency of blood sugar which may occur after too large a dose of insulin has been given?

2.      Double, tented, radial and Ulnar loops, arches and whorls are found on what parts of the human body?

3.      What does necrotizing fasciitis attack?

4.      The light sensitive membrane on the inner lining of the eyeball is called what?

5.      What is another name for the disease known as Varicella?

6.      What is the term used for a breast X-ray?

7.      What instrument is used to measure blood pressure?

8.      What human organs are affected by glaucoma?

9.      Which human bone is most often broken?

10.  What deficiency causes anemia?

11.  What is another more common term for acetylsalicylic acid?

12.  Which is the lowest of the seven vertebrae?

Wuzzles…What concept or phrase does this suggest?                           .

Hmmmmm                                                                                                       .

Date on which National Front leader Marine Le Pen  compared Islam in France to the Nazi occupation: 12/10/2010

Percentage of French people who said they ‘approved’ of the comparison: 39

Somewhat Useless Information                                                                  .

A five-year-old English girl nearly died in 2009 after she had swallowed so much of her own hair that it became a rope-like structure that rapped around her organs - a condition known as Rapunzel Syndrome.

Being unmarried can shorten a man's life by 10 year.

Yeah, It Really Happened                                                                              .            

PINCHNEY, Mich. - The first girl to play on a Michigan high school's varsity football team was crowned homecoming queen and then went out and kicked a game-winning field goal.

Brianna Amat, a Pinchney High soccer star turned varsity football kicker, said she received a note at half-time of the Friday night game against Grand Blanc telling her to come out of the locker room and she was shocked to find herself crowned homecoming queen, WJBK-TV, Detroit, reported Monday. Later, with 5 minutes left in the third quarter, Amat kicked a 31-yard field goal, a personal record, to win the game 9-7.

Guffaw…or at least smile                                                                               .

TEACHER: Donald, what is the chemical formula for water?

 DONALD: H I J K L M N O.

 TEACHER: What are you talking about?

 DONALD: Yesterday you said it's H to O.

Searchin’ “You Tube” I found                                                                        .     

Baby Octopus

Shark vs Octopus

Octopus vs. Bird

Daybook Information                                                                                    .

…Happening This Week:

1-9

Albuquerque International Balloon Festival / Universal Children's Week

2-8

Great Books Week / National Newspaper Week / Mental Illness Awareness Week / Mystery Series Week / National Carry A Tune Week / Nuclear Medicine Week

3-10

No Salt Week / Spinning & Weaving Week

4-10

World Dairy Expo / World Space Week

6-12

National Physicians Assistant Week

7-9

National Storytelling Weekend / New York Comic Con Week

TODAY IS                                                                                                         .

Cephalopod Awareness Day: Marine animals: squid, octopus,…

Lee's National Denim Day

National Diversity Day

National Frappe Day

World Smile Day

Yom Kippur (begins at sundown - Jewish)

Today’s Events                                                                                                .

ARTS

 1955 - Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco  

1957 - "American Bandstand"  premieres

1960 - "Route 66" premieres

ATHLETICS

1950 - NY Yankees sweep Phila Phillies in 47th World Series

1965 - Charles Linster does 6,006 consecutive push-ups

BUSINESS

1913 - Henry Ford institutes moving assembly line

1919 - KLM, Netherlands Airlines, established (oldest existing airline)

EDUCATION

1520 - 1st public burning of books in Netherlands, in Louvain

1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

INDIGENOUS PEOPLE

1672 - White Mountain Apaches raid the Zini pueblo of Hawikum, and kill a priest named Pedro de Abila y Ayala today.

1701 - In a farewell address to William Penn, Susquehannah Chief Oretyagh, along with other Shawnee leaders, request, again, that traders be prevented from selling alcohol to the local Indians. Penn assures them that the Pennsylvania assembly will do just that.

INTERNATIONAL POLITICS

1714 - People riot due to beer tax in Alkmaar Netherland

1938 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J

1951 - David Ben-Gurion forms Israeli govt

1981 - Hosni Mubarak became acting-president of Egypt

RELIGION

3761 BC - The epoch (origin) of the modern Hebrew calendar (Proleptic Julian calendar)

SCIENCE

1542 - Explorer Cabrillo discovered Catalina Island off California coast

1806 - Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgewood

1963 - Hurricane Flora hits Haiti & Dominican Republic, kills 7,190

US POLITICS

1958 - US manned space-flight project renamed Project Mercury

2003 - Gray Davis is recalled as Governor of California, three years before the official end of his office term. Film star Arnold Schwarzenegger is elected Governor.

Today’s Birthdays                                                                                          .

ARTISTS:  (AUTHORS, COMPOSERS,…)

Yo-Yo Ma , Paris France, world famous Chinese cellist is 56

ATHLETES

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ENTERTAINERS (ACTORS/SINGERS…)

1917 - June Allyson, actress (Till the Clouds Roll By, Vegas)

Joy Behar, comedian, talk show host is  68

Toni Braxton, singer (You Mean the World to Me ) is 43

Simon Cowell, English recording executive, American Idol, X Factor is 52

1905 - Andy Devine, [Jeremiah Schwartz], Williams Az, actor (Andy's Gang)

ENTREPRENEURS & EDUCATORS

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POLITICIAL FIGURES

Oliver L North, US colonel (Irangate) is 68

Vladimir Putin, Russian politician is 59

1854 - Christiaan R de Wet, South African rebel leader, politician and general in the Boer War

SCIENTISTS & THEOLOGISTS

1885 - Niels Bohr, Denmark, physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)

1927 - R. D. Laing, Scottish psychologist (d. 1989)

1896 - Elijah Muhammad, US, leader of Nation of Islam

Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of S Afr (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) is 84

Today’s Obits                                                                                                  .

1956 - Clarence Birdseye, American inventor dies of heart attack at 69

1991 - Leo Durocher, baseball coach/manager (Dodgers, Giants), dies at 86

1959 - Mario Lanza, opera singer, dies of a heart attack at 38

1849 - Edgar Allen Poe, poet (Raven), dies of possible alcoholism at 40

1990 - John "Cat" Thompson, basketball hall of famer, dies at 84

1772 - John Woolman, American Quaker preacher and abolitionist (b. 1720)

ANSWERS                                                                                                        .    

Trivia Quiz

1.      What is the term in medicine given to the deficiency of blood sugar which may occur after too large a dose of insulin has been given?

a.      Hypoglycemia

2.      Double, tented, radial and Ulnar loops, arches and whorls are found on what parts of the human body?

a.      Thumbs and fingers

3.      What does necrotizing fasciitis attack?

a.      Skin or flesh

4.      The light sensitive membrane on the inner lining of the eyeball is called what?

a.      Retina

5.      What is another name for the disease known as Varicella?

a.      Chickenpox

6.      What is the term used for a breast X-ray?

a.      Mammogram

7.      What instrument is used to measure blood pressure?

a.      Sphygmomanometer

8.      What human organs are affected by glaucoma?

a.      Eyes

9.      Which human bone is most often broken?

a.      Collar bone

10.  What deficiency causes anemia?

a.      Red blood cells

11.  What is another more common term for acetylsalicylic acid?

a.      Aspirin

12.  Which is the lowest of the seven vertebrae?

a.      Coccyx

Wuzzle

Small change

Checks for misspelled words

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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