Nov 7

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 45/ Day:    

Today: High   68°…Low 26°

Records: High   72°(1934)…Low 7°(1935)

Averages: High  54° Low 26°

Wind: average:   11mph; Gusts:  21mph

Today’s average humidity:  39%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Case needed to determine election—2000

Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election but Electoral college selects Hayes (R) —1876

Herbert Hoover (R) elected president—1928

James Monroe elected 5th US president—1820

Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D) —1972

FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R) —1944

General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US—1848

Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president—1916

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1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by T Nast—1874

1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French—1942

Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic—1637

Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation—1811

Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung—1931

Colorado accepts female suffrage—1893

Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France—1492

Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office—2000

LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting—1967

Lewis & Clark 1st sights Pacific Ocean—1805

Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers—1991

Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland—1990

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

So nice to live in a small town with a good county recorder. I voted about 8a and there was no line…got all my voting done in less than 10 minutes. So sorry for all those who had to stand in lines around the country. I remember lines, back in the day, in TC when I stood in line for about 2 hours after work in the Carter election. Back then I had to wait until I got off work to vote. Since that election I have always tried to get to the polls soon after opening…I was always in the first 5 voters in Tuba. Now it’s time to see what happens. 

My biggest concern in this presidential election, with the vote appearing so close, is that in the end, no matter who wins, the country will stay divided. This will not be good for the country or the world. I hope everyone remembers we are the UNITED states. There has to be a winner and a loser. After the votes are counted, we have to UNITE behind the President. I will be watching CNN for my election results…and the local website for our local elections. I really am not up for listening to either left- or right- leaning commentary tonight.

 

We went to Olive Garden for lunch…and because we had voted, we got a free dessert. That was a surprise and made for a great lunch. Not a lot of news, just talking about our elation that the campaigning is over.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences: 5 letter anagrams

What are the missing words?

The thought of a slug moving only five _____ per week, producing _____ the entire way, made George _____ .

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: COFFEE

• Spent coffee grounds can be mixed with lye to make a great composting agent

• Small amounts of coffee grounds can be added directly to top soil, especially on plants that like high acidity in the soil like azaleas or roses.

• Mosquitoes, ants, slugs and maggots all dislike the acidity of coffee and will stay away from areas where there is high concentration of acidic soil

• Used coffee grounds can be mixed with orange peels (or other citrus) and spread around flowerbeds for an inexpensive pet deterrent. 

• The reason you want to smell coffee beans between perfume samples is that when testing out powerful aromatics it can get hard to discern one scent from another. The strong odor of coffee beans excites different areas in your olfactory, allowing a more sensitive smell for the next perfume you want to smell.

• Try a coffee rub on your next steak dinner for a unique flavor experience! I toasted fresh coffee grounds under a hot broiler for about 30 seconds, shaking often to prevent burning. The toasted coffee was then added with other steak spices and rubbed into the steak and left to marinate for a few hours in the fridge.

• Used coffee grounds can be used as a cleaning abrasive. Simply save up your coffee grounds and scoop some into your next dirty pot or pan before hand washing, the absorbent grounds are perfect for greasy pans and the small jagged edges of each ground helps in cleaning even the grossest of dishware.

Old Saying Explained:

TO BOOT…If you get something to boot it means you get it extra. However it has nothing to do with boots you wear on your feet. It is a corruption of the old word bot, which meant profit or advantage.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

The Brady Bunch - Sherwood Schwarz

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Quarter of a Million Chinese Live on Water

People of Africa:

Flute Music from Around the World:

Khmer traditional flute song

Harper’s Index:         

Percentage of Top 40 songs from the 1960’s that were written in a major key: 85From the 2000’s that were: 43

Ruminations:

A favorite thing in the world: a mini-van with rims. It’s like wearing a fanny pack encrusted with rhinestones: just because you made it shiny, it doesn’t made you made it cool

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Casu marzu means "rotten cheese" in Sardinian and is commonly known as "maggot cheese" because it actually contains live maggots. The cheese is only okay to eat if the maggots are still alive.

Found on You Tube: 

• Whats my line? - Eleanor Roosevelt

• Al Hirt - "Java" (1964)

Joke-of-the-day:

knock knock
who's there? oddley hee oddley hee who? I didn't know you could yodel!  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

USING FLASH…Amateur photographers typically use flash in dimly-lit areas and no flash in brighly-lit areas. Professional photographers often do the opposite, so the lighting is more uniform across the whole scene.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania man could spend up to 25 years in prison for stealing lobsters he planned to sell to support his drug habit.

Authorities say 47-year-old Charles Shumanis III repeatedly stole lobsters and meat from Allentown-area supermarkets, including a botched March 1 theft that included a parking lot car-jacking.

Police say Shumanis stole meat and lobsters on two other occasions before he was confronted when he walked out of the store with $350 in lobsters.

A Lehigh County judge on Monday recommended Shumanis serve time at a state prison able to help him deal with his drug and alcohol problems.

Shumanis pleaded guilty in September to charges including retail theft and robbery of a motor vehicle.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The U.S. Electoral College is the body of elected officials who actually vote for the president of the United States. The writers of the Constitution developed the concept of an indirect presidential election to make sure that every state, whether large or small, has proportional representation in the presidential election. A presidential candidate thus needs support throughout the country to win.
• In most states, the Electoral College works on a "winner-take-all" system: the candidate with the most votes in the state gets all of that state's electoral votes. The only two states that differ are Maine and Nebraska, which choose two electors by the statewide popular vote and the rest by the vote in each Congressional district.
• Four times in American history a presidential candidate has won by electoral votes but not by the popular vote. The most recent instance is in the 2000 election between George Bush and Al Gore.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7

National Fig Week ► National Patient Accessibility Week ►World Communication Week

4-10 

Health Information and Technology Week ►International Fraud Awareness Week ►National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week ►National Nurse Practioner's Week►National Rad Tech Week

5-9 

Give Wildlife A Break Week

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week ►Pursuit of Happiness Week

Today Is                                                                       

Job Action DayNational Bittersweet Chocolate With Almonds DaySolidarity Day (Bangladesh)

Today’s Events through History  

1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio—1932

1st issue of The New Republic magazine is published—1914

2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes—1864

Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries—1983

Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to recieve a PhD in US college (Yale) —1876

French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta—1950

Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising—1916

Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people—2007

Lord Dunmore, promises freedom to male slaves who join British army—1775

NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP—1963

Spaniards have their first view of Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City) —1519

The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical Society—1786

US spy plane shot down north of Japan—1954

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 40’s

Jeremy London, actor (I'll Fly Away, Party of Five) will be 40

In their 60’s

Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], Canadian singer (Clouds) is 69

In their 70’s

Johnny Rivers, [John Henry Ramistella],  singer (Secret Agent Man) is 70

In their 90’s

Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades) is 94

Remembered for being born today

Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (1913-1960)

Marie Curie, Warsaw, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911), (1867-1934)

Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry) (1903-1991)

Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) (1922-1999)

Dana Plato , actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes) (1964-1999)

Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], Russian revolutionary and Theorist (1879-1940)

Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell (1832-1918)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Will Durant, US author (story of civilization)—1981—at 96

Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer—liver cancer—2011—at 67

Jack Kelly, US actor (Maverick, Vega$)stroke—1992—at 65

Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt)—cancer—1980—at 50

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945)—bone marrow TB—1962—at 78

Answer: Anagram sentence

The thought of a slug moving only five miles per week, producing slime the entire way, made George smile .

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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