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Today’s Historical
Highlights
1558 - Queen
Mary Stuart of Scotland marries French crown prince Francois
1833 - Jacob
Evert & George Dulty patent soda fountain
1884 - National
Medical Association of Black physicians organizes (Atlanta)
1913 - The
skyscraper Woolworth Building in New York City is opened
1928 - Fathometer,
which measures underwater depth, patented
1961 - JFK
accepts "sole responsibility" following Bay of Pigs
1967 - Vietnam War:
American General William Westmoreland says in a news conference that the enemy
had "gained support in the United States that gives him hope that he can
win politically that which he cannot win militarily."
1968 - Leftist
students take over Columbia University, NYC
1989 - 10s of
thousands of students strikes in Beijing China
2005 - Cardinal
Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church
taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.
Free Rambling
Thoughts
Hot damn…what a great day in Flagstaff. Opened all the
windows about 8a and kept them open all day. What a good way to start the week.
I did some laundry and got it all put away…quite a feat for me. So
nice to have great weather here…especially as I listen to
my brother, who is in snow in NY, and friends who are having heat problems in
Southern AZ.
Our well-known Governor
made an interesting decision this week. While she and her entourage will be in
the Supreme Court audience to hear questions from the judges to the lawyers
regarding our ridiculous SB1070, she did not offer one of her seats to the
author of the bill. Of course, he was the first sitting president of the Senate
in AZ to be ousted by a recall election. The guy tried to make the news by
saying he was upset, since it was his bill. Good for her.
Game
Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Game—A
close up picture of what?
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NPR Sunday Puzzle
For each category given,
the answers are things within the category that start with the letters, M, I,
N, S and K. For example, given "two-syllable girls' names," the
answer could be "Mary, Ingrid, Norma, Sarah and Kathy."
1.
Makes of automobiles:
2.
Parts of the human body: :
3.
Indian Tribes: :
4.
Words of 5 or more letters ending in K: :
Riddle of the day
A woman walked into an
office building, looked at the guard, and said her name was Jenny. The next day
she walked into the same building, looked at the same guard and said her name
was Julie. What is going on?
Hint: use psychology
Anagram:
unscramble—numbers represent the number of letters in
each answer word
Lifestyle Substance
Harper’s
Index
Percentage of Icelanders
who belive that the existence of elves is ‘probable’ or ‘certain’: 25
Found on You
Tube
Planet Earth—
Joke-of-the-day
This man in a Ford Granada
pulls up next to a guy in a Rolls Royce at a stop sign. Their windows are open
and he yells at the guy in the Rolls: "Hey, you got a telephone in
there?" The guy in the Rolls says,
"Yes, of course I
do." "I got one too... see?"
"Uh, huh, yes, that's
very nice."
Then the man in the
Granada says, "You got a fax machine?"
"Why, actually, yes,
I do."
"I do too! See? It's
right here!" "Uh-huh."
The light is just about to
turn green and the guy in the Granada says, "So, do YOU have a double bed
in back there?"
And the guy in the Rolls
says, "NO! Do you?"
"Yep, got my double
bed right in back here — see?!"
The light turns and the
man in the Granada takes off. Well, the guy in the Rolls is not about to be
one-upped, so he goes immediately to a customizing shop and orders them to put
a double bed in back of his car. About two weeks later, the job is finally done
and he picks up his car and drives all over town looking for the Granada. He
finally finds it parked alongside the road so he pulls his Rolls up next to it.
The windows on the Granada are all fogged up and he feels a little awkward
about it, but he gets out of his newly modified Rolls and taps on the foggy
window of the Granada. The man in the Granada finally opens the window a crack
and peeks out.
The guy in the Rolls says,
"Hey. Remember me?"
"Yeah, yeah, I
remember you. What's up?" "Check this out — I got a double bed
installed in my Rolls."
And the man in the Granada says, "YOU GOT
ME OUT OF THE SHOWER TO TELL ME THAT?!"
Rules of
Thumb
Easy shortcuts to make
an ‘educated’ guess
The average paint roller will apply two to three square feet of paint per dip.
Yeah, It Really
Happened
Most people have likely
experienced brain freeze — the debilitating, instantaneous pain in the temples
after eating something frozen — but researchers didn't really understand what
causes it, until now.
Previous studies have
found that migraine sufferers are actually more likely to get brain freeze than
people who don't get migraines. Because of this, the researchers thought the
two might share some kind of common mechanism or cause, so they decided to use
brain freeze to study migraines.
Headaches like migraines
are difficult to study, because they are unpredictable. Researchers aren't able
to monitor a whole one from start to finish in the lab. They can give drugs to
induce migraines, but those can also have side effects that interfere with the
results. Brain freeze can quickly and easily be used to start a headache in the
lab, and it also ends quickly, which makes monitoring the entire event easy.
The researchers brought on
brain freeze in the lab by having 13 healthy volunteers sip ice water through a
straw right up against the roof of their mouth. The volunteers raised their
hands when they felt the familiar brain freeze come on, and raised them again
once it disappeared.
The researchers monitored
the blood flow through their brains using an ultrasound like process on the
skull. They saw that increased blood flow to the brain through a blood vessel
called the anterior cerebral artery, which is located in the middle of the
brain behind the eyes. This increase in flow and resulting increase in size in
this artery brought on the pain associated with brain freeze.
When the artery
constricts, reining in the response to this increased flow, the pain
disappears. The dilation, then quick constriction, of this blood vessel may be
a type of self-defense for the brain, the researchers suggested.
"The brain is one of
the relatively important organs in the body, and it needs to be working all the
time," study researcher Jorge Serrador, of Harvard Medical School, said in
a statement. "It's fairly sensitive to temperature, so vasodilatation [the
widening of the blood vessels ] might be moving warm blood inside tissue to
make sure the brain stays warm."
This influx of blood can't
be cleared as quickly as it is coming in during the brain freeze, so it could
raise the pressure inside the skull and induce pain that way. As the pressure
and temperature in the brain rise, the blood vessel constricts, reducing
pressure in the brain before it reaches dangerous levels.
If other headaches work in
the same way, drugs that stop these blood vessels from opening up, or that
could make this blood vessel constrict could help treat them, the researchers
say.
The work was presented
during a poster session Sunday at the Experimental Biology 2012 meeting in San
Diego.
Somewhat Useless
Information
"Don't pull down the
blinds! I feel fine. I want the sunlight to greet me." -Rudolph Valentino,
Italian actor and sex symbol.
"Either the wallpaper
goes, or I do." -Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and writer.
"Nothing but
death." -the response of Jane Austen, English writer, when asked "Is
there anything you require?"
"I should never have
switched from Scotch to Martinis." -Humphrey Bogart, American actor.
"I just wish I had
time for one more bowl of chili." -Kit Carson, American frontiersman.
"I'm bored with it
all." -Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister, before slipping into a
coma and dying nine days later.
Calendar Information
…Happening This
Week:
19-5/4
Kentucky
Derby Week
20-29
National
Dance Week
21-28
Money Smart
Week
Administrative Professionals Week
National Crime Victims Rights Week
Administrative Professionals Week
National Crime Victims Rights Week
National
Playground Safety Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Oral, Head and Neck Cancer Awareness Week
Preservation
Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of The Young Child
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Sky Awareness Week
Week of The Young Child
(Spring) Astronomy Week
Safe Kids
Week
24-30
National
Dream Hotline
National Pie Championships
National Pie Championships
Today Is
Genocide
Remembrance Day
Library of
Congress Day
Mother,
Father Deaf Day
National Pet
Parent's Day
National
Pigs In A Blanket Day
National
Teach Your Children To Save The Day
Today’s Other Events
Before 1000CE
1184 BC - The
Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse (traditional date)
1000’s
1061 - Halley's
Comet sparks English monk to predict country'll be destroyed
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1200’s
1288 - Jews of
Yroyes France are accused of ritual murder
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1500’s
1596 - Pacificatie
of Ireland drawn 1800 - Library of Congress establishes with $5,000
allocation
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1700’s
1754 - Delaware Chief Teedyuscung
will lead a group of 70 Christian Indians out of the village of Gnadenhuetten
today. They will leave to live in the village of Wyoming, Pennsylvania.
1800’s
1802 - State of Georgia
will cede its western lands to the United States, with the proviso that the
Federal Government obtain the title to Indian lands as soon as "can be
peaceably obtained on reasonable terms."
1877 - Last
federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans)
1895 - Joshua
Slocum completes around-the-world voyage in 11-m boat
1900’s
1907 - Hersheypark,
founded by Milton S. Hershey for the exclusive use of his employees, is opened
1950 - Pres Harry
Truman denies there are communists in US government
1953 - Winston
Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1962 - MIT sends TV
signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1969 - Paul
McCartney says there is no truth to rumors he is dead
1981 - Bill
Shoemaker wins his 8,000th race, 2000 more than any other jockey
1993 - An IRA bomb
devastates the Bishopsgate area of London.
1994 - Bomb attack
in center of Johannesburg, 9 killed
2000’s
2004 - The
United States lifts economic sanctions imposed on Libya 18 years previously, as
a reward for its cooperation in eliminating weapons of mass destruction.
2006 - King
Gyanendra of Nepal gives into the demands of protesters and restores the
parliament that he dissolved in 2002
2007 - Iceland
announces that Norway will shoulder the defense of Iceland during peacetime.
Today’s Birthdays
In their 70’s
Shirley MacLaine,
actress/mystic (Irma la Douce) is 78
Barbra
Streisand singer/actress/award winner (People) is 70
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In their 50’s
Vince Ferragamo, NFL/CFL
quarterback (LA Rams, Montreal Alouettes) is 58
In their 40’s
Jamie Brown, NFL tackle
(Denver Broncos) is 40
In their 30’s
Kelly
Clarkson, American singer and winner of the inaugural season of TV series
American Idol is 30
Remembered for being born on this day
Peter Vivian Daniel,
Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1784
Jill Ireland, London,
actress (Breakout, Assassination, Chino) in 1936
Siegfried F Nadel,
Austrian/British anthropologist (Black Byzantium) in 1903
Robert Penn Warren, 1st US
poet laureate (All the King's Men) in 1905
William I of Orange in
1533
Today’s Obits
Bud Abbott, comedian
(Abbott & Costello), dies in 1974 at 78
Estée Lauder, American
cosmetics entrepreneur dies in 2004 at 97
Pat Paulsen, comedian
(Smothers Brothers Show), dies in 1997 of brain and colon cancer at 69
Louis Alexandre Piccinni,
composer, dies at 70 in 1850
Bessie Wallis Warfield
Simpson, (Edward abdicated for her), dies in 1986 at 89
Answers
Brain Game: Close
Up Picture
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Riddle of the day
The woman has Multiple
Personality Disorder. This happens when a traumatic experience causes so much
pain that they make another personality to cope with the situation.
NPR Sunday Puzzle
1.
Makes of automobiles:
a.
Mazda Isusu Nissan; Saturn; Kia
2.
Parts of the human body: :
a.
Mouth; Instep; Neck: Stomach; Knee
3.
Indian Tribes: :
a.
Mohawk; Iroquois; Navajo; Sioux; Kiowa
4.
Words of 5 or more letters ending in K: :
a.
Matchstick; Icepack; Nudnik; Stock; Kiosk
Anagrams
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