Sep 8, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 36 / Day: Today: High   71°…Low 59°

Records: High   89°(1977)…Low 35°(1970)

Averages: High  76°…Low 45°

Wind: average:   4.7mph;  Gusts: 16mph

Today’s average humidity:  58%  Nice afternoon rain

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

1994 - Last US, British & French troops leave West-Berlin

1985 - "USA Weekend's" 1st issue, appears in 255 newspapers

1974 - Pres Gerald Ford pardons former Pres R Nixon of all federal crimes

1971 - John F Kennedy Center for Performing Arts opens in Washington DC

1952 - Ernest Hemmingway's "Old Man & Sea" published

1951 - Japan signs peace treaty with 48 countries (SF)

1930 - 1st appearance of comic strip "Blondie"

1565 - 1st non-Indigenous permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

I watched the Obama speech last night. Not a lot of clear plans, but certainly a good speech that reminded all of us why we are Americans.

Wow, little ol’ Flagstaff is in the National News. Not for a good thing.  A local judge sentenced a former DPS officer to probation after he was convicted of groping one and possibly two women in a downtown local bar after admitting he had 8 beers before driving to the bar and using his badge to get in. The reason the judge is in the news, she told the victim “If you wouldn’t have been there that night, none of this would have happened to you.” She is a newly appointed judge by our Governor, and says she has apologized to the victim for her comment that was ‘poorly communicated’. Talk about sending women’s rights back a long time. There is a call for her resignation, but looks like she thinks her apology will be enough. So sad.

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)

to baby a person employed to display clothing (6,5)

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Eye Drops Off Shelf

Do you know what this word means?

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

Jabot

Mosques—…

First Version/Hit Version…:

Twist and Shout…Top Notes

Twist and Shout…Isley Brothers

Twist and Shout…Beatles

The original Twist and Shout by Top Notes sounds nothing like the cover done by The Beatles. The interesting things is that many people think they have heard the original song by the Isley Brothers which sounds like the Beatles’ version but nope, that was a reworking of the Top Notes song as produced by Phil Spector in one of his first assignments as a record producer. The songwriter Burt Berns hated what Spector did with the song and gave it to the Isley Brothers to redo.

Harper’s Index…         

Maximum decibels at which the cabin crew may whisper in the ‘Upper Class Dream Suite’ on Vrigin Atlantic flights: 30Number of training hours for crew members spend with a ‘whispering coach’: 6

Unusal Fact of the Day…

SeaWorld began as a plan by four UCLA alums to open an ocean-themed restaurant with a marine show.

Found on You Tube… 

I heard this on NPR Science Friday then I checked out the video…amazing

Bats

Joke-of-the-day…

God created the donkey & said to him: “You will work unceasingly from sunrise to sunset carrying burdens on your back. You will eat grass, you will have no intelligence & you will live 50 years. You will be a donkey. “The donkey answered: “I will be a donkey, but to live 50 years is too much. Give me only 20 years. God granted his wish.
God created the dog and said to him: "You will be a dog.” You will guard the house of man. You will be his best friend. You will eat the scraps that he gives you and you will live 25 years. You will be a dog. “The dog answered: “Master, to live 25 years is too much, you give me only 10 years. God granted his wish. God created the Monkey and said to him: “You will be a monkey.” You will swing from branch to branch doing tricks. You will be amusing and you will live 20 years. You will be a monkey. “The monkey answered: “Master to live 20 years is too much, you give me only 10 years. God granted his wish.
Finally God created the man and said to him: “You will be a man, the only rational creature on the face of the earth.” You will use your intelligence to become master over all animals. You will dominate the world and you will live 20 years. Man responded: "I will be a man but to live only 20 years is very little, give the 30 years that the donkey refused, the 15 years that the dog did not want and the 10 years the monkey refused. God granted his wish. And since then, man lives 20 years as a man, he marries and spends 30 years like a donkey, working and carrying all the burdens on his back. Then when his children are gone, he lives 15 years like a dog, taking care of the house and eating whatever is given to him, so that when he is old, he can retire and live 10 years like a monkey, going from house to house, from one son or daughter to another, doing tricks to amuse his grandchildren.

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

REACHING A GAS STATION--If your tank is on empty and you're trying to make it to the next gas station, cut your speed to 35 miles per hour.    

Yeah, It Really Happened…

REJMYRE, Sweden - An American artist working in Sweden says he plans on collecting the sweat of Swedish glass-blowers and selling it to tourists as perfume. Daniel Peltz, a conceptual artist from New York who is currently in residence at the Rejmyre Art LAB in eastern Sweden, said he hopes tourists who buy Swedish glass will also spend some of their money on his perfume, The Local.se reported Sunday. "The glass-blower's sweat and work is something that tourists appreciate when they come here and look. So for me there isn't such a huge difference in selling the glass-blower's sweat and the finished glass," Peltz told the local Norrkopings Tidning daily newspaper. Peltz is working with glass-blowers, who said they were happy to help out with the project. "Very different. We normally strive after perfection, now it was about the process," said Elin Jonsson at Rejmyre glass works to the newspaper. Joyful Noise unto the LordWhen neighbors complained that Betty Jones, 54, was playing music too loudly, police in Bristol, Tenn., said she told them she spends five hours every Sunday praising the Lord by listening to the music of Johnny Cash, the Judds, Alan Jackson, Elvis Presley and others, and that she would continue to listen to it how she wanted. The officers cited her and left but returned after more complaints and arrested her for disorderly conduct and violating the city’s noise ordinance. She admitted that on the second police visit, “I was going off and cussing.” (Bristol’s WCYB-TV)

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• The first useful application for aerosol spray cans was introduced during World War II. Insecticide-filled "bug bombs," as they were called, helped protect American military personnel from disease-carrying insects.

• In the first season of the sitcom Full House, John Stamo's character was an exterminator named Jesse Cochran. He later found a better job as a jingle writer and rock musician and a decidedly more Greek last name: Katsopolis.

• Guitarist Greg Ginn of punk band Black Flag revealed that, although the band's moniker wasn't specifically inspired by the popular brand of insect-control products, they didn't mind the connection: "It just sounded, you know, heavy." 

• Through the mid-twentieth century, untold ecological damage occurred after several nations began purposely spreading oil over mosquito-infested swamps in order to reduce the spread of malaria. 

• Marvin Glass and Associates designed the original Mouse Trap board game that Ideal sold in 1963. However, the company refused to pay any royalties or licensing fees to Rube Goldberg, even though the game's elaborate mousetrap resembled one of his cartoons.

• Green Acres star Eddie Albert was also an ardent environmentalist and one of the first people to call for a ban on DDT. In 1969, he sailed to Anacapa Island to study the pelicans there and found that chicks were dying because the pesticide had caused mothers to lay eggs with shells that were too fragile.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

2-8: National Waffle Week

4-8: Play Days
6-8:Popcorn Festival

Today Is…  

Farmers' Consumer Awareness Day

International Drive Your Studebaker Day

International Literacy Day

National Date Nut Bread Day                                                          

Nixon Pardon Day

Pediatric Hematology / Oncology Nurses Day

UN International Literacy Day

Virgin Mary Day (birthday)

World Physical Therapy Day

~Macedonia: Independence Day (1991 from Yugoslavia)

Today’s Events Through History…  

2000’s

2005 - Two EMERCOM Il-76 aircraft land at a disaster aid staging area at Little Rock 

            Air Force Base; the first time Russia has flown such a mission to North America   

1900’s

 1999 - United States Attorney General Janet Reno names former Senator John

             Danforth to head an independent investigation of the 1993 fire at the Branch 

             Davidian church near Waco

1973 - Hank Aaron sets record of most HRs in 1 league (709)

1972 - Jim Ryan (US) & Billy Fordjour (Ghana) collide & fall in qualifying competitions 

            for 1,500m finals, ending Ryan's chances for gold

1967 - Uganda abolishes traditional tribal kingdoms, becomes a republic

1962 - Chinese troops exceed Mac-Mahon-line (Tibet-India boundary)

1956 - Harry Belafonte's album "Calypso," goes to #1 & stays #1 for 31 weeks

1946 - Bulgaria ends monarchy

1943 - Gen Eisenhower announce unconditional surrender of Italy in WW II

1941 - Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins

1921 - 1st Miss America crowned (Margaret Gorman of Washington DC)

1920 - US Air Mail service begins (NYC to SF)

1800’s

1899 - British government sends an additional 10,000 troops to Natal South Africa

1858 - Lincoln makes a speech about when you can fool people

1700’s

 1756 - Colonel John Armstrong, leads approximately 300 Pennsylvania soldiers 

             against the Delaware village of Kittanning, in retaliation for their attack on Fort 

             Granville on July 30th. Delaware Chief, Captain Jacob, is trapped in his house.

             He is ordered to surrender, and he refuses. His house is set on fire, and he is 

             burned to death. Armstrong estimates Delaware losses at 40 killed, and his 

             own at 18. He recovers many English prisoners.

1500’s

1565 - 1st permanent settlement in US forms (St Augustine, Florida)

1545 - English earl Hertford leads retaliatory mission against Scotland

1535 -Cartier reaches Stadacone, where the modern city Quebec is located

1522 - Spanish navigator Juan de Elcano returns to Spain, completes 1st 

            circumnavigation of globe, expedition begins under Ferdinand Magellan

1504 - Michelangelo's David is unveiled in Florence

1300’s

 1303 - Anagni: French king Philip IV captures Pope Boniface VIII

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 30’s

Pink [Alecia Beth Moore], singer-songwriter, musician and actress is 33

Larenz Tate, film and TV actor is 37

John Thomas, NBA forward (Boston Celtics) is 37

In their 40’s

David Arquette, actor (Scream, Scream 2, Kiss & Tell) is 41

Brooke Burke, American model is 41

In their 50’s

Sergio Casal, Spanish tennis player is 50

Heather Thomas, actress (Jody-Fall Guy, Coed Fever) is 55

In their 70’s

Sam Nunn, American politician (Sen-D-Georgia) is 74

In their 90’s

Lyndon LaRouche, American presidental candidate (1980) is 90

Sid Caesar, comedian (Your Show of Shows) is 90

Remembered for being born today

Frank Cady, actor (Mr Drucker-Green Acres) b. 1915

Patsy Cline, Winchester Va, country singer (Crazy) b. 1932

George Crook, Major General (Union volunteers) b. 1828

Antonín Dvorák, Nelahozeves Czech, composer (New World Symphony) b. 1841

Frederic Mistral, Maillane, France, Provencal poet (Nobel 1904) b. 1830

Claude D Pepper, (Rep-D-FL, 1963-1989), old people's advocate b. 1900

Richard I, [Richard the Lion Hearted], King of England b. 1157

Jimmie Rodgers, Mendoza Miss, country singer/singing brakeman b. 1897

Peter Sellers, England, actor (not now, Kato, Bobo, Pink Panther) b. 1925

Robert A Taft, (Sen-R-Ohio, Taft-Hartley Act) b. 1889

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Dorothy Danridge, actress (Island in the Sun), embolism or accidental OD—

           1965--at 41

Ann Lee, American religious leader Founder of the Shakers, fraility—1784—at 48

Zaki Naguib Mahmoud, Egyptian philosopher/author/diplomat, dies 1993--at 88

Zero [Samuel J] Mostel, US actor (Fiddler on the Roof), aortic aneurysm—1977--at 62

Adam Opel, German manufacturer (motorcars), 1895--at 58

Percy Spencer, inventor of the microwave oven—1970—at 76

Richard Strauss, German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra), 1949--at 85

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

A ruffle or frill, generally of lace, worn at the throat of a woman's shirt or blouse. They were formerly also worn at the neck of a man's shirt, and still are by Scots wearing traditional Highland Dress. This somewhat ostentatious item was widespread in eras of luxury, and was a key part of an 18thcentury gentleman's costume. However, in modern times, no one has worn a jabot with quite the panache of Austin Powers.

What is the answer?

 Coddle model

Rebus

 moral support

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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