Sep 03, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 36 / Day: 248  Today: High   77°…Low 50°

Records: High   91°(1948)…Low 34°(1973,’64,’61)

Averages: High  76°…Low 46°

Wind: average:   3.7mph;  Gusts: 17mph

Today’s average humidity:  70%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

 1995 - The Fourth World Conference on Women opens in Beijing with over 

             4,750 delegates from 181 countries in attendance

1988 - Phoenix Cardinals play 1st regular-season NFL game

1972 - US swimmer Mark Spitz becomes 1st athlete to win 7 Olympic gold medals

1957 - Ford Motor Co introduces Edsel

1950 - 1st helicopter rescue of American pilot behind enemy lines

1893 - English author Beatrix Potter 1st tells the story of Peter Rabbit

1886 - Apache Chief Geronimo surrenders ending last major US-Indian war

1885 - 1st cafeteria opens (NYC)

1833 - 1st newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty, 10 years old-NY Sun)

1682 - English astronomer Edmund Halley sees his namesake comet

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

I had a good Labor Day, not a lot to do, but hang the flag outside, and wait for the afternoon rain. It came with lots of thunder and lightning.

I am waiting for the Democratic Convention. Not that excited, just waiting. I’ll watch it, just like I did the Republican Convention. I heard all the rhetoric on how we are in deep trouble from the RNC, now I’ll hear how we aren’t by the DNC. I have to say, since I’m retired, I haven’t seen that much change for the good or the bad during the Obama administration. Both sides seem to take the same information and spin it to their way of thinking. I have always followed politics from a distance but stay informed. The one thing that keeps bothering me is that October 2011 speech: "The single most important thing we want to achieve is for President Obama to be a one-term president," Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. I just don’t buy that.  The legislative branch should have more other things to do.

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)

saliva left at the sight of the thievery (6,7)

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Dealers Will Hear Car Talk at Noon

Do you know what this word means?

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

Glassine

Mosques—…

Movie music…:

• Krull …(1983) – James Horner
 Horner actually composed the original version of this score for Star Trek II: the Wrath of Khan, and when he finished it, he was offered the scoring of Krull, with a promised release date of spring 1983, in time with Return of the Jedi. But post-production of Krull stretched into development hell, and Horner did not get a rough cut of the film to work with until there were only 7 weeks left before its release on July 29.

• Conan the Barbarian…(1982) – Basil Poledouris
 One of the most unfairly under-appreciated films ever made. It’s not Casablanca, but it’s entertaining. The sword fights aren’t as brilliantly choreographed as those of The Mark of Zorro, The Last Samurai, or The Lord of the Rings, but somehow, they work better in their own way. They’re incredibly brutal, and all power, with little finesse, as they should be given the gigantic size of the actors. When Arnold slashes someone across the gut, blood goes everywhere. He cuts James Earl Jones’ head off with two hacks, not just a clean slice. It’s raw, gory, and still original.

Harper’s Index…         

Number of Americans who renounced their citizenship in 2011: 1,781
Rank of this number among the highest on record: 2

Unusal Fact of the Day…

In a 2004 episode of Sesame Street, Cookie Monster said that before he started eating cookies, his name was Sid.

Found on You Tube… 

Edsel Commercial (1957)

Joke-of-the-day…

Mr. Marlow was strolling through the country when he saw a stable with the most beautiful horse he ever laid eyes on. It was seventeen hands high and white, with rippling muscles and a fine, flowing mane. Mr. Marlow struck a deal to buy it from the owner who did, however, pass on one key piece of information. "We are a religious family, Mr.Marlow, and we've instilled those values in our horse. To get him to gallop you must say 'Thanks God' to get him to stop you must say 'Our Father Who Art in Heaven," Settling into the saddle, Marlow said " Thanks God," and the animal took off. They rode for miles; suddenly they were coming up to a cliff. Unfortunately, Marlow couldn't remember the phrase to make the animal stop and tried every Biblical passage he could think of until, just a few feet from the edge of the cliff, he shouted, " Our Father Who Art in Heaven! The animal stopped instantly. Shaking and perspiring, Marlow reached into his pocket and pulled out a handkerchief. "Thanks God," he said as he mopped his brow...

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

USING DOGS TO CARRY PACKS--A dog can comfortably carry half his weight in a backpack. Working dogs can carry up to twice their body weight for short periods.  

Yeah, It Really Happened…

Naples Daily News: When managers of a jewelry store at a shopping mall in Naples, Fla., discovered items missing, they identified Andrew Alexander Roberts, 26, who’d been working at the store only five days, as the culprit. Surveillance cameras caught him taking cash and jewelry, some of which he then sold to another store in the mall. When confronted, according to the arrest report, Roberts told management to “discount it from his paycheck.”                 

Somewhat Useless Information…   

Matthew McGuire is considered the Father of the Labor Day holiday. An Irish-American cabinet maker and pioneer unionist proposed a day dedicated to all who labor at a meeting of the Central Labor Union on May 18,1882 where he stated, "Let us have, a festive day during which a parade through the streets of the city would permit public tribute to American Industry." He is described as a red-headed, fiery, eloquent leader of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners.There are an estimated 15.8 million labor union members nationwide. About 13 percent of wage and salary workers belong to unions, with New York having among the highest rates of any state at 25 percent. North Carolina has one of the lowest rates, 3 percent.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

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

2-8: National Waffle Week

3- 7: National Payroll Week

4-8: Play Days

Today Is…                                                                      

Another Look Unlimited Day: to take another look through what you’re getting rid of to 

      identify things which could be donated to charity, given to friends, or recycled in 

      another way

Newspaper Carrier Day

International Drive Your Studebaker Day

~Curacao: Animals' Day

Today’s Events Through History…  

2000’s

2010 - Canterbury earthquake: a 7.1 magnitude earthquake which struck the South 

            Island of New Zealand at 4:35 am causing widespread damage and several 

            power outages

1900’s

1981 - Longest game at Fenway Park completed in 20, Mariners-8, Red Sox-7

1964 - Longest bridge in Europe opens (Scottish Forth Road Bridge)

1957 - Governor of Arkansas, Orval Faubus, calls out National Guard to stop 9 black

            students from entering a Little Rock high school

1956 - The IBM RAMAC 305 is introduced, the first commercial computer that used

            magnetic disk storage

1953 - Yanks become 1st team to win 5 consecutive championship

1945 - US regains possession of Wake Island from Japan

1923 - Maiden flight of the first U.S. airship, the USS Shenandoah

1918 - Jhr Ch Ruys de Beerenbrouck becomes 1st Dutch Catholic premier

1800’s

1894 - In NYC, 12,000 tailors went on strike protesting sweat shops

1888 - George Eastman patents 1st roll-film camera & registers "Kodak"

1882 - 1st district lit by electricity (NY's Pearl Street Station)

1866 - 1st Hawaiian daily newspaper published

1863 - The Concow-Maidu had ancestral homes in the Butte County area of northern

            California. Eventually, they were forced to move to different lands. Many die or 

            are killed along the way to these distant, hostile places. One group of 461 

            Concows leaves Chico, but only 277 will survive the two-week trip to Round

           Valley

1854 - A peace treaty is signed with the Modocs of Tule Lake. They are out of 

            supplies, by this time. The fighting started on August 18, 1854

1813 - 1st US religious newspaper (Religious Remembrancer (Christian Observer))

1807 - Robert Fulton begins operating his steamboat

1700’s

 1781 - Los Angeles founded by 44 in Bahia de las Fumas, (Valley of Smokes)

1600’s

1618 - "Rodi" avalanche destroys Plurs Switzerland, 1,500 killed

1609 - Navigator Henry Hudson discovers island of Manhattan

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 30’s

Beyonce Knowles, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer is 31

In their 40’s

 Ione Skye[Leitch], Hertfordshire England, actress (Say Anything) is 42

In their 50’s

 Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, NYC, actor (Freddie-Welcome Back Kotter) is 59

Damon Wayans, actor/comedian (In Living Color, Major Payne, Blankman) is 52

In their 60’s

 Tom Watson, KC Mo, golfer (British Open 1975, 77, 80, 82, 83) is 63

In their 70’s

Merald "Bubba" Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer (Gladys Knights & Pips) is 70

Remembered for being born today

Alexander III, King of Scotland b. 1241

Phoebe Cary, Cincinnati, American poet (Poems of Alice & Phoebe Cary) b. 1824

John Dillon, Irish nationalist/British Lower house member b. 1851

Henry Ford II, automaker (Ford Motor Co) b. 1917

Paul Harvey, Tulsa Oklahoma, news commentator (Rest of the story) b. 1918

William Lyons, Blackpool, British industrialist (Jaguar cars) b. 1901

Dick York, Fort Wayne Ind, actor (Darrin-Bewitched, Inherit the Wind) b. 1928

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Cesar F Cassini "the Thury", French astronomer (geodesic labor)—1784—at 70

Irene Dunne, actress (5 oscars), heart failure—1990-- at 91

Edvard Hagerup Grieg, Norwegian composer (Peer Gynt Suite), long illness

     —1907--at 64

Albert Schweitzer, German/French missionary (Nobel 1954)—1965-- at 90

Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes my Baby), in a car crash—1991--at 58

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The type of paper that lines boxes of chocolates or truffles and cups single chocolates. In a special manufacturing process, paper pulp is beaten to break down the fibres, and pressed into molds, then allowed to dry into sheets. After that, a process called ' calendering' presses the sheets through hot rollers, making the paper grease- and air-proof. This is ideal for protecting chocolates from that white 'bloom' that can sometimes appear.

What is the answer?

Robber slobber

Rebus

Downright stupid

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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