Sep 18. 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 38 / Day 262: Today: High   73°…Low 38°

Records: High   88°(1956)…Low 27°(1903)

Averages: High  73°…Low 42°

Wind: average:   4mph;  Gusts:  24mph

Today’s average humidity:  47%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

2007 - Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore 

            civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.

2007 - Buddhist monks join anti-government protesters in Myanmar, starting what 

            some called the Saffron Revolution

1997 - Ted Turner gives $1 billion to UN

1997 - Voters in Wales vote yes (50.3%) on a referendum on Welsh autonomy

1965 - "Get Smart" premieres

1957 - "Wagon Train" premieres

1945 - 1000 whites walk out of Gary Ind schools to protest integration

1885 - Riots break out in Montreal to protest against compulsory smallpox vaccination

1851 - New York Times starts publishing (2 cents a copy)

1789 - 1st loan is made to pay salaries of the presidents & Congress

1769 - John Harris builds 1st spinet piano (US)

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

Monday started out with my quarterly visit to the eye doctor. No changes. I had to be there at 8a to find that out. A little early for me, but all worked out well. I do like to be the first patient at all my doctor’s appointments so I don’t fall into a backlog. Today the computers were tired from the weekend and wouldn’t let anyone log in. It took a little while longer to get everything up and running, and some frustration on the part of the office staff. Lucky for me, being first, I had less of a wait than the waiting room full of people when I left.

It’s 49 more days of politics before the election…I’m getting ready to say campaigns can be no longer than 60 days before any election. There are way too many spins everyday on who said what and what it means. Barring some huge truthful announcement, I’m ready to vote on all elections right now. As usual I won’t vote until Election Day, just in case something happens to change my mind.

Our local Flagstaff news program is back on the air…YES!

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)

ground beef for Charles, Andrew, Harry, et al.

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Man is Fatally Slain

Do you know what this word means?

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

Ullage

Gorilla:

Great Scenes in Musical Movie History…:

Springtime For Hitler…The Producers (1968)

Springtime For Hitler…The Producers (2005)

Harper’s Index…         

• Amount by which the median US newlywed white wife and Asian husband out earns the median newlywed white couple: $11,800

• By which they out earn the median newlywed Hispanic couple: $36,222

Unusal Fact of the Day…

Despite being staples of the Old West landscape, neither horses nor tumbleweeds are native to North America.

Found on You Tube… 

Get Smart TV Series Intro

Wagon Train Song

 Joke-of-the-day…

At a recent computer expo (COMDEX), Bill Gates reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto industry and stated "If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving twenty-five dollar cars that got 1000 mi/gal." Recently General Motors addressed this comment by releasing the statement: "Yes, but would you want your car to crash twice a day?"
Not only that, but....
Every time they repainted the lines on the road you would have to buy a new car. Occasionally your car would die on the freeway for no reason, and you would just accept this, restart and drive on.
Occasionally, executing a maneuver would cause your car to stop and fail and you would have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you would accept this too.
You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought "Car95" or "CarNT". But, then you would have to buy more seats.
Macintosh would make a car that was powered by the sun, was reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive, but would only run on five percent of the roads.
The Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars, which would make their cars run much slower.
The oil, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced by a single "general car default" warning light.
New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.
The airbag system would say "are you sure?" before going off.
If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.  

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guessFINDING A MISSING PERSON…One trained dog equals 60 search-and-rescue workers.    

Yeah, It Really Happened…

PARMA, Ohio - An Ohio man said a kindly passerby stopped to help him with a flat tire and he soon realized he was the same man who helped him eight years earlier. Gerald Gronowski of Parma said he pulled his van over to the side of an Auburn Township road Saturday evening to fix a flat and Christopher Manacci of Chagrin Falls pulled his car up behind the vehicle to offer his assistance, The (Cleveland) Plain Dealer reported Thursday. Gronowski said an out-of-control pickup truck hit Manacci's car moments later, narrowly missing the two men and Gronowski's son. "His actions probably saved those people's lives," Ohio State Patrol Lt. Mark Neff said of Manacci. The driver of the truck, Joseph Pawlowski of Burton was charged with drunken driving and treated at a local hospital. Gronowski said the close call got him talking about an encounter with a helpful man eight years ago. "I told the story about how I was fishing and I got a triple hook embedded deep into my hand," Gronowski said. "I was in a lot of pain and my son asked if anyone was a doctor and this guy paddles up in a kayak. He was a nurse practitioner and he surgically removed the hook from my hand. Chris looked at me and said, 'That was me.'" "And then I recognized him," Gronowski said. "The odds of that happening are astronomical. Now I know it's my job to repay this by helping someone else."  

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• In 1966, Time Magazine predicted, "By 2000, the machines will be producing so much that everyone in the U.S. will, in effect, be independently wealthy." In that year too CoCo Chanel said about miniskirts: "It's a bad joke that won't last. Not with winter coming."

• In 1954, a concert manager fired Elvis Presley, saying, "You ought to go back to driving a truck." In 1962, Decca Records rejected the Beatles, "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."

• In 1894, A.A. Michelson, who with E.W. Morley seven years earlier experimentally demonstrated the constancy of the speed of light, said that the future of science would consist of "adding a few decimal places to the results already obtained."

• After the invention of the transistor in 1947, several US electronics companies rejected the idea of a portable radio. Apparently it was thought nobody would want to carry a radio around. When Bell put the transistor on the market in 1952 they had few takers apart from a small Japanese start-up called Sony. They introduced the transistor radio in 1954.

• Irish scientist, Dr. Dionysius Lardner (1793-1859) didn't believe that trains could contribute much in speedy transport. He wrote: "Rail travel at high speed is not possible, because passengers 'would die of asphyxia' [suffocation]."

• In 1943, Thomas Watson, the chairman of IBM forecast a world market for "maybe only five computers." Years before IBM launched the personal computer in 1981, Xerox had already successfully designed and used PCs internally... but decided to concentrate on the production of photocopiers. Even Ken Olson, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, said in 1977, "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."  

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

15-22: National Singles Week / Pollution Prevention Week / Build A Better Image Week / Deaf Awareness Week / National Clean Hands Week  / National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week / Prostate Cancer Awareness Week / Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week / Tolkien Week / Turn Off Week / Balance Awareness Week / Constitution Week / National Love Your Files Week

Today Is…                                                                      

Air Force Birthday: [founded 1947]

Chiropractic Founders Day [1895-- Dr. Daniel David Palmer administered the first 

           specific chiropractic adjustment on  his patient]

Hug A Greeting Card Writer Day

National HIV/AIDS and Aging Awareness Day 

National Respect Day

World Water Monitoring Day: [a global educational outreach program that aims to 

          build public awareness and involvement in protecting water resources around 

          the world]

~Chile: Independence Day (1810 from Spain)

Today’s Events Through History…  

2000’s

2001 - First mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax 

             attacks

1900’s

1988 - Burma suspends its constitution

1976 - Mao Zedong's funeral takes place in Beijing

1974 - Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, 5,000 die

1962 - Rwanda, Burundi, Jamaica & Trinidad admitted (105th-108th) to UN

1948 - Ralph J Bunche confirmed as acting UN mediator in Palestine

1934 - USSR admitted to League of Nations

1927 - The Columbia Broadcasting System—CBS--goes joins the radio waves

1911 - Britain's 1st twin-engine airplane (Short S.39) test flown

1800’s

1848 - Baseball rules 1st baseman can tag base for out instead of runner

1823 - Thirty-one Seminoles sign a treaty (7 stat. 224) on Moultrie Creek in Florida, 

            with the United States. Six Chiefs are given large estates to get them to agree 

            to the treaty. Those chiefs were: John Blunt, Eneah Emathla, Emathlochee, 

           Tuski Hadjo, Econchattemicco, and Mulatto King. The Seminoles give up lands

           north of Tampa Bay, and return runaway black slaves. They receive an annuity of 

           $5000. The lands set aside for the Seminoles are poor, at best. The Americans

          are represented by James Gadsden.

1813 - After the "massacre" at Fort Mims, Alabama, by the "Red Stick" Creeks, the 

           word of the Creek uprising spreads. In Nashville, Tennessee, Governor William 

           Blount calls on the State Legislature to "teach these barbarous sons of the 

           woods their inferiority."

1812 - Fire in Moscow destroys 90% of houses & 1,000 churches

1700’s

1793 - Pres Washington lays cornerstone of Capitol building

1755 - Fort Ticonderoga, New York opens

1600’s

1679 - New Hampshire becomes a county Massachusetts Bay Colony

1500’s

1502 - Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his 4th & last voyage

1400’s

1437 - Farmer uprising in Transylvania

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 30’s

James Marsden. actor, singer and former Versace model is 39

In their 40’s

Lance Armstrong, dethroned road cyclist (Olympics-6th-92, 96) is 41

Holly Robinson Peete, Phila, actress (21 Jump Street, The Talk) is 48

Jada Pinkett, actress (Jason's Lyric, Menace II Society) is 41

Aisha Tyler, actress, stand-up comedian, TV host (The Talk) is 42

In their 50’s

 James Gandolfini, actor (The Soparanos) is 51

In their 70’s

Frankie Avalon, Phila, actor (Beach movies)/singer (Venus) is 73

Robert Blake, Nutley NJ, (Baretta, Little Rascals, Coast to Coast), wife issues is 79

Fred Willard, comedian (Fernwood 2 Night, Real People) is 79

Remembered for being born today

Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, Oakland California, actor (Jack Benny Show) b. 1905

Greta Garbo, Stockholm Sweden, actress (Ninotchka, Grand Hotel, Camille) b. 1905

Bud Greenspan, documentary maker (Olympic Games) b. 1926

Samuel Johnson, Lichfield Staffordshire, England, lexicographer/writer 

      (Boswell's Tour Guide) b. 1709

Edwin M McMillan, US, physicist/discoverer plutonium (Nobel prize) b. 1907

Dee Dee Ramone, Virg, [Douglas Colvin], rock bassist (Ramones) b. 1951

Jack Warden, Newark NJ, actor (NYPD, Crazy Like a Fox, Norby) b. 1920

Clark Wissler, anthropologist (American Indian) b. 1870

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Dag Hammarskjoeld, UN Sect Gen--air crash over Congo—1961--at 56

Jimi Hendrix, rock guitarist (Purple Haze)—1970—overdose—at 27

Frank Morgan, actor (Wizard of Oz—5 roles including the Wizard)

     —heart attack—1949--at 59

Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer)—1792—at 88

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The space in a wine bottle not occupied by wine. If the top level of the wine is anywhere in the neck of the bottle, that's regarded as a perfect fill level…Older bottles may have a lower level than this, due to evaporation through the cork; for Bordeaux wines this is described in terms of the level's position on the shoulder, the rounded part at the top of the main bottle.

What is the answer?

Prince mince

Rebus

Forgive and forget

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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