Oct 13, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 41/ Day: 287   Today: High   45°…Low 35° Records: High   83°(1950)…Low 9°(1969) Averages: High  63°…Low 33°
Wind: average:   8mph;  Gusts:  32mph

Today’s average humidity:  65% Heavy rain

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

2010 - The 2010 Copiapó mining accident in Copiapó, Chile comes to an end as 

            all 33 miners arrive at the surface after surviving a record 69 days underground 

            awaiting rescue 

1988 - Shroud of Turin, revered by many Christians as Christ's burial cloth, is shown 

            by carbon-dating tests to be a fake from the Middle Ages

1983 - Ameritech Mobile Communications (now Cingular) launched the first US 

            cellular network in Chicago, Illinois

1969 - 1st time 7 people in space

1941 - Nazi's kill 11,000 Jewish children/old people

1792 - "Old Farmer's Almanac" is 1st published

1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of Executive Mansion (White House)

1629 - Dutch West Indies Co grants religious freedom in West Indies

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:  At 7am I looked out my office window and it was raining pretty hard. Two minutes later the rain had become sleet. Then in about 5 more minutes, back to rain. The rain continued on and off most of the day. It was also cold enough to get out a jacket when I went to lunch. Put in a new furnace filter and got ready for winter. It hasn’t turned on yet, but I know that is just around the corner. I’ll be ready. 

We had a great lunch at Red Lobster. My colleague is now working in a small school and still has the excitement to keep students learning. She had written a grant for each of the eight teachers at the school to get iPads for their classroom. They will be used for assessment and other cooler stuff. She shared her iPod, loaded with kid’s early reading books. Technology is sure amazing. We caught up on lots of people we knew from Tuba. A good time.

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)

numbered musical composition written for the second brightest star in the sky (7,4)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

The world record for the most tennis balls held in the mouth by a dog at one time is five.  Augie, a golden retriever owned by the Miller family in Dallas, Texas, USA, successfully gathered and held all five regulation-sized tennis balls on 6 July 2003.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Meow Mix

Read This Headline Carefully!!

In a veterinarian's waiting room, "Be back in 5 minutes. Sit! Stay!"

Do you know what this word means?

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

 Nomophobia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

The Good, The Bad And The Ugly / Hugo Montenegro

Harper’s Index:         

Estimated number of bats killed by white-nose syndrome since 2006: 1,000,000Minimum amount of the loss of bats will cost US farmers in pest-control this year: $3,700,000,000

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The U.S., Burma, and Liberia are the only countries in the world that have not officially adopted the metric system as the standard of measurement.

Found on You Tube: 

•  The New Seekers Medley

• THE NEW SEEKERS - FOR YOU WE SING

Joke-of-the-day:

A student comes to a young professor's office hours. She glances down the hall, closes his door, and kneels pleadingly."I would do anything to pass this exam," she says. She leans closer to him, flips back her hair, and gazes meaningfully into his eyes. "I mean," she whispers, "I would do anything..."He returns her gaze, "Anything?""Anything."His voice softens, "Anything?""Anything," she repeats again. His voice turns to a whisper. "Would you ... study?"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

DETERMINING WIND DIRECTION…If you are flying over a rural area and need to know the wind direction at ground level, simply see which direction a majority of cows are facing. Cows normally stand so their back end is up-wind, and their heads face downwind.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

• Forbes—A study identifying the world’s 122 laziest countries, reported in the British medical journal “The Lancet,” ranked the United States 46th. Physical activity was the determining factor. Malta was the laziest, Greece the least lazy.

• The Washington Times—A survey of energy efficiency in the world’s 12 major industrial powers ranked the United States ninth. Only Brazil, Canada and Russia scored lower, according to the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy’s International Energy-Efficiency’s Scorecard. The most energy-efficient country is the United Kingdom.

• National Geographic—A National Geographic Society and GlobeScan survey of environmental attitudes and behavior among 17,000 consumers in 17 countries ranked Americans last when it comes to practicing sustainable behavior involving housing, transportation, food and consumer goods. Despite finishing last since the survey began in 2008, only 21 percent of Americans reported feeling guilty about their impact on the environment. The survey found consumers in India, China and Brazil are the greenest but feel the most guilt about their environmental impact 

         Somewhat Useless Information    

• Mercury, which becomes solid at -40 degrees F, is the only metal that is liquid at room temperature.
• The rare metal gallium melts at 86 degrees F. It is safe to touch. If you hold a piece of it in your hand and wait, your body heat will melt it.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week National Metric Week
National Physicians Assistant Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week 

10-16

Take Your Medicine Americans Week

 11-13 

Great American Beer Festival

12-18 

World Rainforest Week

Today Is                                                                      

English Language Day  Navy Birthday
National Chess Day
National Family Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day)  National Peanut Festival Universal Music Day  

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

 2008 - HM Treasury infused £37 billion ($64 billion, 47 billion euros) of new capital-

             bailout into Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, Lloyds TSB and HBOS Plc, to 

            avert a financial sector collapse

1900’s

1999 - The United States Senate rejects ratification of the Comprehensive Test 

            Ban Treaty (CTBT)

1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)

1981 - Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt

1973 - Jordan enters Yom Kippur war

1966 - 173 US airplanes bomb North-Vietnam

1923 - Angora (Ankara) becomes Turkey's capital

1903 - Victor Herbert's "Babes in Toyland," premieres in NYC

1800’s

1884 - Greenwich established as universal time meridian of longitude

1864: Little Buffalo, with 700 of his fellow Comanche, and Kiowa, launched a series of 

          raids along Elm Creek, ten miles from the Brazos River, in north-western Texas 

         Sixteen Texans and perhaps, twenty Indians will be killed in the fighting with the 

         settlers, and the rangers, in the area.

1864 - Maryland voters adopt new constitution, including abolition of slavery

1843 - B'nai B'rith founded (NY)

 1700’s

 1775 - Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet

1724 - Jonathan Swift publishes last of Drapier's letters

1300’s

 1307 - French king Philip IV convicts Templars because of heresy

Before 1000CE

54 - Nero ascends to the Roman throne

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 30’s

Ashanti, singer, actress is 32

In their 40’s

Sacha Baron Cohen, Hammersmith, London, comedian/actor (Ali G, Borat) is 41

Kate Walsh, TV actress is 45

In their 50’s

Marie Osmond, singer/actress (Paper Roses, Goin' Coconuts) is 53

Jerry Rice, NFL wide receiver (SF 49ers) is 50

In their 60’s

Sammy Hagar, Monterey CA, rock vocalist (Van Halen-Jump)is 65

Demond Wilson, Valdosta GA, actor (Sanford & Son, Baby I'm Back) is 66

In their 70’s

Paul Simon, Newark NJ, singer/actor (Kodachrome, 1 Trick Pony) is 71

In their 80’s

 Margaret Thatcher, Grantham England, (Tory) British PM is 87

Remembered for being born today

Lenny Bruce, [Leonard Schneider], comedian, arrested on obscenity b.1925

Jaques de Molay, Grand Master of the Knights Templars b.1244

Horace H Hayden, cofounded 1st dental college b. 1769

Yves Montand, France, actor/singer (Z, Napoleon, Grand Prix) b.1921

Burr Tillstrom, Chic Ill, puppeteer (Kukla, Fran & Ollie) b.1917

Rudolf Virchow, German politician/anthropologist/pathologist (cell pathology) b.1821

Cornel Wilde, NYC, actor (High Sierra, 5th Musketeer) b.1915

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Bea Benaderet, actress (Petticoat Junction)—lung cancer—1968—at 62

Peter Doyle, Australian pop singer (The New Seekers)—throat cancer—2001—at 52 

Lê Ðức Thọ, Vietnamese general and politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

     —1990—at 78 

Nichiren. Japanese founder of Nichiren Buddhism—1282—at 60

Robert Nugent, 1st Earl Nugent, Irish politician and poet—1788—at 87 

E.C. Segar, American cartoonist (Popeye)— leukemia/liver disease—1938—at 43 

Ed Sullivan, TV host (Ed Sullivan Show, Toast of the Town)— esophageal cancer

      —1974—at 73

Clifton Webb, actor (Laura, Razor's Edge) 0151heart attack—1966—at 76

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

fear of being out of mobile contact

What is the rhyming answer?

Canopus opus

Rebus

 You're under arrest

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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