Sep 24. 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 39/ Day 268 :   Today: High   77°…Low 45°

Records: High   86°(1945)…Low 25°(1940)

Averages: High  71°…Low 39°

Wind: average:   3mph;  Gusts:  25mph

Today’s average humidity:  40%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

1968 - "60 Minutes" premieres on CBS-TV

1955 - Pres Eisenhower suffers a heart attack on vacation in Denver

1934 - 2500 fans see Babe Ruth's farewell Yankee appearance at Yankee Stadium

1895 - 1st round-the-world trip by a woman on a bicycle (took 15 months)

1841 - Britain obtains Sarawak from Brunei (James Brooke appointed Rajah)

1789 - Congress creates Post Office

1625 - Dutch attack San Juan, Puerto Rico

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

Angio-edema is a pain in the butt. Last night about 9pm my tongue started swelling. I popped my pill and went to bed about 10:30. Got up at midnight and took a second pill. Finally got some sleep starting at 4am. Swelling was down when I got up at 7am. But all day I’ve been tired and not feeling like doing much of anything. A good night’s sleep tonight and I’ll be back to normal. I did watch all my Sunday news programs and feel better informed, not happy, just better informed. Salman Rushdie is making the rounds plugging his new book, about his life after the publication of his first book. He sure has some interesting perspectives. Guess I’ll watch the Emmy’s tonight…too lazy for anything that requires thinking.

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)

hag's space (5,5)

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Smokers are Productive, but Death Cuts Efficiency

Gorilla:

Great Melodies…:

Minuet in G Major…Christian Petzold

Everyone thought for centuries that Johann Sebastian Bach composed this minuet for his wife, Anna Magdalena, but he actually included it from Petzold into the notebook which bears her name. He never intended it to be thought of as his work. He intended the notebooks only for his wife, who had musical talent he wanted to cultivate. She often copied his scores for his orchestras. The pieces in the notebooks are comparatively easy to play, and the only reason we think of the piece as Bach’s work is because, on his death, his wife was so poor she sold all his manuscripts that she could find. Some went to butchers to wrap meat.

Harper’s Index…         

Estimated percentage of orders submitted by high-frequency stock traders that are cancelled: 95

Unusal Fact of the Day…

The Harlem Globetrotters were originally a Chicago based team (1927). They did not play a ‘home’ game in Harlem until the 1968.

Found on You Tube… 

Dr Seuss: Rhymes and Reasons

Joke-of-the-day…

There were 3 men who were working on a bridge. One of the worker's name was John, the other one's name was Randall, and the last one's name was Joe. So one day when the 3 men were taking a lunch break, they all opened up their lunch box and saw what their wives had gave them for lunch. When John opened his lunch, he saw that he had peanut butter and jelly, so then he said, "If my wife gives me the same lunch tomorrow, I'm going to jump off this bridge. Then Randall opened his lunch and saw that he had spaghetti and meatballs. So then he also said the same thing as what John said. Then when Joe opened his lunch he saw that he was having a chicken salad. So then he said that he too was going to jump off the bridge if he got the same lunch the next day. So the next day, all 3 men had the same lunch from yesterday and they all jumped off. A week later when the funeral was scheduled, John's wife said, "If my sweetie- pie told me he wanted a new lunch, he should have told me!” then Randalls wife said "Why did he do it? Why??” then Joe's wife said, "Why did he jump off the bridge? He packed his own lunch!"

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

TOM TAYLOR'S RULE FOR SUCCESSFUL DISSERTATIONS #1…Select a topic on which there is little related literature.   

Yeah, It Really Happened…

TORONTO - A legal squabble has resulted in a Canadian debt collection agency making demands on a competitor to pay its lawyers' fees. The unusual situation -- in which a collection agency pursued another -- began in 2010 when one of Canada's largest debt-chasers, iQor Canada, contracted with a Toronto legal firm to help with wrongful dismissal issues, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp, reported. The law firm billed iQor almost $55,000 for its services, but it wasn't paid, the report said. The lawyers then enlisted rival Credit Control Central, which began making phone calls and sending letters to its competitor to collect. In May 2011, iQor paid $50,677 of its legal bill, short by $4,374, the report said. In turn, the legal firm went to small claims court to get the difference and won. Credit Control Central President Don Vence told the CBC the situation was peculiar for the debt-chasing business. "It's a dichotomy to have a company calling other companies for money, or individuals asking them to live up to their financial commitments when they themselves don't," he said.

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• Martin Van Buren was the eighth vice president (1833-1837), serving under President Andrew Jackson. Van Buren helped to organize the Democratic Party. His first language was not English but Dutch. He was believed to wear corsets. He was elected to the presidency in 1836.

• Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth vice president (1837-1841), serving under President Martin Van Buren. Although Van Buren won the Electoral College vote, Johnson came up short when Virginia’s electors refused to cast their ballots for him. For the first and only time, the US Senate had to decide the vice presidential contest, picking Johnson on a party-line vote.

• John Tyler was the 10th vice president (1841), serving less than a month under President William Henry Harrison. When Harrison died of pneumonia, Tyler became the first vice president to become president after the incumbent’s death. His popular nickname was "His Accidency." He believed in states’ rights and ended his career serving in the Confederate Congress.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

22-29: Banned Books Week / National Dog Week / National Keep Kids Creative Week / Remember to Register to Vote Week / International Women's E-Commerce Days

Today Is…                                                                      

Family Day - A Day to Eat Dinner with Your Kids
Festival of Latest Novelties
Family Health and Fitness DayPunctuation Day
R.E.A.D. in America DaySchwenkfelder Thanksgiving [1734 Pennsylvania Dutch]~Cambodia: Constitutional Declaration Day (1993)~South Africa: Heritage Day
~Guinea-Bissau: Independence Day (1973 from Portugal) 

Today’s Events Through History…  

2000’s

2007 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gives a controversial speech 

            on the campus of Columbia University

1900’s

1997 - Drug kingpin Ramon Arellano Felix placed on FBI's 10 most-wanted

1988 - Jackie Joyner-Kersee of USA sets heptathlon woman's record (7,291)

1988 - Carl Lewis runs world record 100m (9.92 sec)

1979 - CompuServe began operation as 1st computer information service

1977 - 1st broadcast of "Love Boat" on ABC-TV

1969 - Trial of "Chicago 8" (protesters at Dem Natl Conv) begins

1957 - Eisenhower orders US troops to desegregate Little Rock schools

1954 - Tonight Show premieres on NBC 

1924 - Boston, Massachusetts opens its airport

1800’s

 1881 - Henry Morton Stanley signs contract with Congo monarch

1853 - 1st round-the-world trip by yacht (Cornelius Vanderbilt)

1819 - Lewis Cass negotiates a treaty (7 stat. 203) for the United States with the 

            Chippewa. For $1000 a year, the services of a blacksmith, and provisions, 

            the Chippewa give up a large section of land. The treaty is signed in Saginaw, 

            Michigan.

1700’s

1789 - US Attorney General Office is created

1789 - President George Washington appointed John Jay the 1st Chief Justice

1600’s

1683 - King Louis XIV expels all Jews from French possessions in America

1657 - 1st autopsy & coroner's jury verdict is recorded in state of Maryland

Before 1000CE

787 - 2nd Council of Nicaea (7th ecumenical council) opens in Asia Minor

673 - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 30’s

Morgan Hamm, American gymnast is 30
Paul Hamm, American gymnast is 30

In their 50’s

 Kevin Sorbo, actor (Hercules Legendary Journeys, Kull The Conquerer) is 54

In their 60’s

 "Mean" Joe Greene, NFL tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers), Coke spokesman is 66

Remembered for being born today

Konstantin Chernenko, USSR leader fifth General Secretary of the Communist 

     Party b. 1911

F Scott Fitzgerald, St Paul Minn, author (Great Gatsby) b. 1896

Jim Henson, Greenville Miss, muppeteer (Sesame Street, Muppet Show) b. 1936

Ruhollah Khomeini, Iranian politician, religious figure, and political leader 

      of the 1979 Iranian Revolution b. 1902

John Marshall, Va, 4th Supreme Court Chief Justice b. 1755

Linda Eastman McCartney, NYC, Mrs Paul McCartney, rocker (Wings-Ram) b. 1941

Jim McKay, Phila Pa, sportscaster (ABC's Wide World of Sports) b. 1921

Don Porter, Miami Oklahoma, actor (Russ Lawrence-Gidget, Ann Sothern 

      Show) b. 1921

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Theodore Geisel, children's author (Dr Seuss)—cancer--1991--at 87

Clive Morton, actor (Goodbye Mr Chips, Moonraker)—1975-- at 71

Sumner Welles, US diplomat (Good Neighbor Policy)—1961--at 68

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

What is the rhyming answer?

Witch niche

Rebus

 Show till you drop

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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