Sep 02, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 35 / Day: 246  Today: High   71°…Low 53°

Records: High   91°(1948)…Low 33°(1962)

Averages: High  77°…Low 47°

Wind: average:   5.7mph;  Gusts: 26mph

Today’s average humidity:  58% Afternoon rains

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

 1993 - Day of Peace in South Africa1978 - John McClain performs 180 outside 

             loops in an airplane over Houston

1969 - The first automatic teller machine in the United States is installed in 

             Rockville Center, New York

1960 - The first election of the Parliament of the Central Tibetan Administration, 

             in history of Tibet

1946 - Nehru forms government in India

1930 - 1st non-stop airplane flight from Europe to US (37 hrs)

1901 - VP Theodore Roosevelt advises, "Speak softly & carry a big stick"

1898 - Machine gun 1st used in battle

1859 - Gas lighting introduced to Hawaii

1789 - US Treasury Department established by Congress

1649 - The Italian city of Castro is completely destroyed by the forces of Pope

            Innocent X

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

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Free Rambling Thoughts…   

 A nice Saturday here in ol’ Flagstaff.  Some friends stopped by this afternoon and we ran over to Safeway for some watermelon. While there I ran into 5 different groups of people I haven’t seen for a long time from Tuba. I never go shopping on weekends…too crowded. We were there all of 30 minutes. Every time I turned around, there was another group. Strange. It was good to see all of them. Guess it’s still true, if you want to see someone from the Rez that you know, just show up at a store on the weekend.

Interesting to watch the VP pull back from some of his comments. Today it was about his marathon running history. ‘I misspoke’ just doesn’t cut it. I have many rez friends that have run Marathons, and they all knew their times, their finish place, and their standing by age group. This is not just a ‘misspoke’, it is a lie, and tells us a lot about the man who wants to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the rhyming answer?

Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)

 agony felt when one wrenches an ankle (6,4)

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Child's Death Ruins Couple's Holiday

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

Fontanelle

Mosques—…

Movie music…:

• The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly…(1966) – Ennio Morricone
 It’s the quintessential quick-draw, stare-down music, parodied in hundreds of films after it. Morricone got the two-note motif in his head when he heard a coyote make the same sound on location in Spain. He thought it sounded as barren as the desert. Leone decided to use this idea: in the very first scene of the film after the credits, there is windy silence, and then a coyote bays the theme. Then there’s the whirling Ecstasy of Gold near the end, when Eli Wallach, the ugly, is frantically searching for Arch Stanton’s grave, in which $200,000 in gold are waiting. Wallach, as Tuco, knows that Eastwood’s Man with No Name is hot on his trail, having just shot a cannon at him, and runs around the cemetery, reading the gravestones while the music whirls and rises euphorically, faster and faster to keep pace with him. And who can forget the classic Mexican standoff – the one according to which all others are judged? It’s maybe the greatest Western ever made. Quentin Tarantino thinks so. When Lee Van Cleef joins the pair, Eastwood reveals that Stanton’s is the wrong grave, so they have to have a three-way shootout. The survivor gets the gold. While they stand still, famously glaring at one another, the music becomes unbearably intense, and that’s precisely what a film score was always supposed to do: enhance the drama in question. Who’s going to shoot whom? No one can be sure. That’s what the Mariachi-style music expresses, complete with Mexican guitar and gunfire.

• The Great Escape…(1963) – Elmer Bernstein
 One of the most exciting action epics ever, still able to hold its own against today’s modern, computer-enhanced masterpieces, and Bernstein’s score does it justice in every way. A strong, heroic march complete with snare drums to start things off, followed by some halfway playful determination that magnificently captures the Allied POWs devil-may-care attitude about escaping. The opening march instills an abiding sense of dread behind the story. The point throughout the film is that they are not escaping for their freedom, but rather to cause the Nazis as many headaches as they can, hindering the Wehrmacht however possible: this true story is quite accurate, and based on the escape of 76 POWs from Stalag Luft III, in the Middle of Absolutely Nowhere, Germany. Many of these men attempted to escape from every prison they were sent to, up to 20 times for some, and the prisons treated them rather well as soldiers (compared to the Jews at other camps). Nevertheless, they considered their attempts to escape a matter of duty, and Bernstein’s score reflects this.

Harper’s Index…         

Total change in US household spending on gasoline in 2010: +$18,188,000,000

Unusal Fact of the Day…

Though dragonflies possess 6 legs like any other insect, they cannot walk.

Found on You Tube… 

Peter Ueberroth Discusses Leadership

Joke-of-the-day…

Did you ever notice that musicians play and doctors practice but the rest of us work for a living!

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

 PLANNING AHEAD: You can think ahead half your age.

Yeah, It Really Happened…

CHRISTCHURCH, England - The family of a British 8-year-old who found a chunk of whale vomit on the beach said the find could be worth more than $60,000. Charlie Naysmith, of Christchurch, England, said he discovered the chunk of ambergris at Hengistbury Head and took it home. His family researched the object and found out it is worth between $16,000 and $63,000, the Daily Echo of Southampton, England, reported Thursday. The boy's father, Alex Naysmith, said experts were working to determine the exact worth of the item.
"He is into nature and is really interested in it. We have discovered it is quite rare and are waiting for some more information from marine biology experts," he said.
Experts said ambergris, which is created in the intestines of a sperm whale and comes out in vomit, is prized for its ability to prolong the scent of perfume.                 

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy wasn't a regular hat wearer until her husband became president. When Halston designed a bone wool pillbox hat for her to wear at her husband's inauguration, she found the style so flattering that she made it her trademark.

• The story of a 10-gallon hat being so named because it could hold that much water is a myth. Galon is the Spanish word for "braid," and back in the day, it was a tradition to have a tall-crowned hat that left room for several rows of braided hatbands. English-speaking cowboys heard "galon" and thought "gallon." 

• Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster) starred in an unlikely Saturday morning Krofft TV production called Lidsville. The show was set in a netherworld populated by oversized hat puppets, with Charles Nelson Reilly as the ringleader. 

• The pork-pie hat is similar to a traditional Fedora but has a flat crown. It had been traditional headgear for British men-about-town for years, but also became popular in America thanks to silent film star Buster Keaton.

• In the 1980 motion picture The Blues Brothers, Elwood (Dan Aykroyd) is never seen without his sunglasses, while younger brother Jake (John Belushi) never takes off his hat.

• The term "hat trick" originated not with hockey, but with cricket. A bowler tricky enough to take three wickets on three consecutive balls was often rewarded by his club with a rather heady gift: a new hat.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

1-7: National Nutrition Week / Self-University Week / International Enthusiasm Week

2-8: National Waffle Week

Today Is…                                                                      

Bison-ten Yell Day: the imaginary creator of a series of ten battle yells. 

        His system was later adopted by football players and is still used today
V-J Day: Ceremony and formal signing of surrender 1945

National Beheading Day: to recall the London Tower Beheadings

~Vietnam: Independence Day (1945 from France)

Today’s Events Through History…  

1900’s

1998 - The UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda finds Jean-Paul Akayesu, 

             the former mayor of a small town in Rwanda, guilty of nine counts of genocide

1987 - Philips introduces CD-video

1963 - Alabama Gov George C Wallace prevents integration of Tuskegee HS

1963 - CBS & NBC expand network news from 15 to 30 minutes

1958 - National Defense Education Act was signed

1940 - Great Smoky Mountains National Park dedicated

1937 - US Housing Authority created by National Housing Act

1919 - Italy agrees to general voting right/proportional representation

1800’s

1897 - McCall-magazine 1st published

1885 - In Rock Springs, Wyoming, 150 white miners, who were struggling to unionize 

            so they could strike for better wages and work conditions, attack their Chinese 

            fellow workers, killing 28, wounding 15, and forcing several hundred more out of

            town

1867 - 1st Girl School opens in Haarlem, Netherlands

1862 - Santee Sioux engages in another fight in the Minnesota Uprising. Called the

           "Birch Coulee Battle," it happens three miles north of Morton, Minnesota. The

           Minnesota forces are led by Major Joseph Brown. The Sioux are led by Big   

           Eagle, Mankato, and Red Legs. The army has been on a burial detail. At dawn, 

           the Sioux attack. The soldiers lose thirteen killed and forty-seven wounded.

1700’s

1792 - During what became known as the September Massacres of the French 

           Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter three Roman Catholic Church bishops, 

           more than two hundred priests, and prisoners believed to be royalist 

           sympathizers

1779 -General John Sullivan, and his force of 4,500 men continue their attacks on 

           Indians in New York who he suspects are British Allies. His forces level 

            Catherine's Town

1600’s

1666 - Great Fire of London begins at 2am in Pudding Lane, 80% of London is 

            destroyed

1100’s

1192 - Sultan Saladin & king Richard the lion hearted sign cease fire

Before 1000CE

31 BC - Final war of the Roman Republic: Battle of Actium - off the western coast of

              Greece, forces of Octavian defeat troops under Mark Antony and Cleopatra

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 30’s

Katt Williams, comedian, rapper, and actor is 39

In their 40’s

Salma Hayek [Jiménez de Pinaul], Veracruz, Mexico, actress (Desparado) will be 46

Lennox Lewis, London England, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1988, WBC champ) is 47

Keanu Reeves, Beirut, actor (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Speed) is 48

In their 50’s

 Linda Purl, actress (Gloria-Happy Days, Matlock) is  57

In their 60’s

 Terry Bradshaw, NFL QB (Pittsburgh Steelers)/announcer (CBS, FOX) is 64 

Jimmy Connors, tennis (US Open-78, 82, 83 Wimbledon-74, 82) is 60

Mark Harmon, actor (Dr Caldwell-St Elsewhere; NCIS) will be 61

In their 70’s

 Peter Ueberroth, organized LA Olympics (1984)/baseball commissioner is 75

Remembered for being born today

Cleveland Amory, Nahant Mass, conservationist/TV reviewer (TV Guide) b. 1917

Allen Drury, author (Advise & Consent-1960 Pulitzer Prize) b. 1918

Hugo Montenegro, American composer and bandleader b. 1925

William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian b. 1810

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Hernan Cortes, Spanish general defeated Aztec Indians—pleurisy—1547-- at 62

Bob Denver, American actor—pneumonia/cancer—2005-- at 70

Troy Donahue, American actor—heart attack—2001-- at 65

Bob Mathias, American athlete and congressman—cancer—2006—at 75 

Mildred Mcafee Horton, US 1st head mistress of WAVES—1994-- at 94

William Wilkerson, Founder of the Hollywood Reporter, The Flamingo Hotel in Las 

     Vegas and nightclubs such as Ciro's—heart attack—1962-- at 72 

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The patch of soft membrane on a baby's head, which has not yet developed into bone; if you look closely, you can see it pulsating. During birth, it allows the skull's bones to flex, enabling the infant's head to pass through its mother's narrow birth canal.

What is the answer?

 Sprain pain

Rebus

 beaten black and blue

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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