Sep 1, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 35 / Day: 245 Today: High   77°…Low 56°

Records: High   89°(1950, ’49, ‘48)…Low 35°(1957)

Averages: High  77°…Low 47°

Wind: average:   5mph;  Gusts: 16mph

Today’s average humidity:  54%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

2006 - Luxembourg became the first country to complete the move to all 

            digital television broadcasting.

1995 - Rock & Roll Hall of Fame opens in Cleveland Ohio

1979 - Pioneer 11 makes 1st fly-by of Saturn, discovers new moon, rings

1978 - Last broadcast of "Columbo" on NBC TV

1941 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star

1939 - Hitler orders extermination of mentally ill

1932 - NYC Mayor James J "Gentleman Jimmy" Walker resigns (graft charges) 

1922 - NYC law requires all "pool" rooms to change name to "billiards"

1914 - The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity 

             in the Cincinnati Zoo

1914 - St Petersburg, Russia changes name to Petrograd

1866 - Last Navaho chief Manuelito, and 23 others turns selves in at Fort Wingate

1807 - Aaron Burr acquitted of charges of plotting to set up an empire

1752 - Liberty Bell arrives in Philadelphia

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

Blue Moon on the 31^st was cool. And yes, when I looked at it, I thought of Neil and the other astronauts who have been there. Now it’s time to look at September…time sure flies. Below are the many observances for September. It is hard for me to believe that summer is almost over. August has been nice rain almost every day. We are still below normal here in Flag, but in much better shape than we were in July.

Clint Eastwood certainly gave an interesting speech at the RNC last night. Parts were a little hard to understand, most was more like that of a standup comic at a lounge act in Vegas. His talk also made me remember his movie ‘Gran Torino’ where he played a crotchety old man. According to many news sources it was a very strange event for the RNC convention…I think it was a very strange event for just about anywhere on the planet. I also listened to Romney. Still no plan. He promised 12 million jobs, but didn’t say how he would do it. He promised a better America, but didn’t say how—except to get Obama out. Now it’s time for the Dems to strut their stuff. I fear more rhetoric and very little substance.

Both sheriffs (Arpaio and Babeu) in AZ have learned that neither one will have criminal charges filed. Babeu is the openly gay sheriff was accused by his ex that he was threatened. Arpaio was under investigation by the US Attorney for ‘abuse of power’. Interesting…but Arpaio isn’t out of the woods left, he still has other investigations that are still ongoing.

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)

permit at this time (5,3)

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember this?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Blind Woman Gets New Kidney From Dad She Hasn't Seen in Years

Do you know what this word means?

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

Fauxhawk

Scottish Castles—…

Movie music…:

• King Kong…(1933) – Max Steiner
You might not remember the score, only Kong fighting the biplanes atop the Empire State Building, but that’s because Steiner was a master at doing just what film scores were always intended to do: blend in with the film and enhance the drama. Steiner studied music in Vienna with Johannes Brahms and Gustav Mahler. So when he came to Hollywood, he had more than sufficient education to get the job done. His most famous score is Gone With the Wind (which should have beaten that of The Wizard of Oz). Steiner, today, is nicknamed “the father of film music,” as one of the first to write primarily for films, but really, Richard Wagner deserves that epithet more. You can set many films to Wagner’s music, and actually improve them over the original scores. Steiner continued the Wagnerian tradition through Mahler.As such, his score for Kong is classic in every way, and even today, when giant monster movies are made, the scores always pay homage to Steiner’s themes: the terrifying, bombastic bass theme for the monster; the lush, sultry baritone brass and strings for the jungle scenes; and of course, an overriding drive of tympani for the island natives. It’s possible that Hollywood simply didn’t know what to do with this, the first film of its kind. They didn’t have a category for special effects back then, and it failed to receive a single nomination for anything at all.

• Ivan the Terrible (1944) – Sergei Prokofiev
One of the greatest – and least known in the West – films ever made. Sergei Eisenstein’s two-part epic about one of the vilest rulers is fairly middle-of-the-road in terms of judgment for and against Ivan, but does not shy away from what happened. Every scene is mesmerizing. Add to this some of the finest music in all of film, from one of history’s greatest composers, and you’re in for some powerful drama. Prokofiev’s music is some of his best work, so good in fact, that after his death in 1953, his music was rearranged into an oratorio, and then in to concert incidental music. Prokofiev scored both parts, and they are Opus 116 of his canon. Whereas, most film scores showcase three of four themes at most, and simply orchestrate these differently to suit various scenes, this is scarcely the style of a classically trained composer. His score for Ivan is perhaps the closest movies have ever gotten to genuine opera (along with John Williams’ E.T. The Extraterrestrial).

Harper’s Index…         

year in which the federal government began using crash-test dummies modeled on female proportions: 2010

Unusal Fact of the Day…

The number "five" is important to the Pentagon in many ways. Sure, it has five sides, but the building also has five stories, and the courtyard in the center encompasses an area of five acres.

Found on You Tube… 

Rocky Marciano Tribute

Joke-of-the-day…

"Dad, where did I come from?" asks this 10-years-old.
The father was shocked that a 10 year old would be asking a question like that. He was hoping to wait a few more years before he would have to explain the facts of life, but he figured it was better a few years early than a few days too late, so, for the next two hours he explained everything to his son.
When he got finished, he asked his son what prompted his question to which his son replied, "I was talking to the new kid across the street and he said he came from Ohio, so I was just wondering where I came from."  

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

CHOOSING A BARBER: Between two barbers in a shop, choose the one with the worst haircut. They cut each other's hair.

Yeah, It Really Happened…

HOBBS, N.M. -- New Mexico corrections officers say an inmate escaped his jail cell by breaking a window bar with a razor blade and a Popsicle stick but changed his mind once he got outside.Carlos Garcia told police it took about five months to break the bar on his cell window at the Lea County jail with those materials. He also used plastic, newspaper and more Popsicle sticks to fashion a fake window.The Hobbs News-Sun reports that Garcia changed his mind and climbed back into his second-story cell using a bedsheet.Garcia has been moved to a maximum-security ward at the state penitentiary. He is serving time for two murder convictions and other crimes.A state Corrections Department spokeswoman says the Aug. 20 escape attempt is under investigation.

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• While the Peanuts have collectively appeared in various commercials for Dolly Madison snack cakes, Metropolitan Life insurance, and the like, the character known as Pig Pen got his own gig in 1993, starring in spots for Regina vacuum cleaners. 

• Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz seemed destined for a career in the comics. As an infant, an uncle gave him a nickname that stuck with him for the rest of his life: Sparky, short for Sparkplug, which was the name of Barney Google's horse.

• On May 5, 2007, a comic book containing more than 100 Peanuts strips not seen since their initial run was given away free by retailers around the world as part of the Free Comic Book Day celebration.

• Charles Schulz was said to be upset in 1950 when he learned that, in order to "go national," United Press Syndicate changed the title of his comic strip from Li'l Folks to Peanuts to avoid confusion with another similarly named series.

• In Peanuts, when Charlie Brown's younger sister, Sally, was found to be suffering from amblyopia ("lazy eye"), the U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare commissioned creator Charles Schulz to come up with an informational pamphlet titled "Security Is an Eye Patch."

• Bookstores are filled with comic-strip compilations, but it wasn't always that way. The first one, which was published by Rinehart & Company, was a 1952 grouping of some of the earliest Peanuts strips.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Month

AKC Responsible Dog Ownership Month…All American Breakfast Month…Attention Deficit 

       Hyperactivity Disorder Month…Apple Month…Atrial Fibrillation Month
Baby Safety Month…Backpack Safety America Month…Be Kind To Editors & Writers 

       Month…Bourbon Heritage Month 
Childrens' Good Manners Month…Childhood Cancer Awareness Month…Chili Peppers 

       and Figs Month…College Savings Month
Fall Hat Month
Go Wild During California Wild Rice Month…Great American Low-Cholesterol, Low-fat 

      Pizza Bake Month…Gynecology Cancer Awareness Month
Happy Cat Month
International  or National Guide Dogs Month…International People Skills Month…International 

      Self-Awareness Month…International Strategic Thinking Month
Library Card Sign-up Month…(World) Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month
Mold Awareness Month

National Chicken Month…National Child Awareness Month…National Childhood Obesity

      Awareness Month…National Coupon Month…National DNA, Geonomics & Stem Cell 

      Education Month…National Fruit and Veggies Month…National Head Lice Prevention 

     Month…National Home Furnishings Month…National Honey Month…National Mushroom 

     Month…National Organic Harvest Month…National Osteopathic Medicine Month…National 

     Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month…National Prime Beef Month…National Prosper Where

     You Are Planted Month…National Recovery Month…National Sickle Cell Month…National 

     Pediculosis (Head Lice)  Prevention Month…National Piano Month…National 

     Preparedness Month…National Prostate Cancer Awareness Month…National Rice 

     Month…National Skin Care Awareness Month

Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month…One-on-One Month
Passion Fruit and Peach Month…Peas and Radish Month…Pediatric Cancer Awareness 

      Month…Pleasure Your Mate Month
Save The Koala Month…Sea Cadet Month…Self Improvement Month…September Is Healthy

        Aging Month…Shameless Promotion Month…Sports and Home Eye Health & Safety 

        Month…Subliminal Communications Month
Update Your Resume Month
Whole Grains Month…Women's Friendship Month…World Animal Remembrance Month

Happening This Week:

1-7: National Nutrition Week / Self-University Week / International Enthusiasm Week

Today Is…                                                                      

Building and Code Staff Appreciation Day

Chicken Boy's Day: Pop Icon of LA in the 1970’s

Emma M. Nutt Day: world's first female telephone operator

National No Rhyme (Nor Reason) Day

Orthodox Ecclesiastical New Year: Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of 

      North America

Toy Tips Executive Toy Test Day: NY: senior corporate executives test toys and 

      learn how to use creativity in the workplace

~Libya: Revolution Day (1969 Gaddafi abolished the monarchy against King Idris I 

      in a bloodless coup d'état)

~Slovakia: Constitution Day (1992)
~Uzbekistan: Independence Day (1991 from Soviet Union)

Today’s Events Through History…  

2000’s

2004 - The Beslan school hostage crisis begins when armed terrorists take hundreds 

            of school children and adults hostage in the Russian town of Beslan in North 

            Ossetia

1900’s

1982 - The United States Air Force Space Command is founded

1975 - All political parties forbidden in Bangladesh

1962 - 12,000 die in an earthquake in western Iran

1938 - Benito Mussolini cancels civil rights of Italian Jews

1931 - Gehrig hits his 3rd grand slam in 4 days & his 6th HR in consec games

1800’s

1897 - The Boston subway opens, becoming the first underground rapid transit 

            system in North America

1867 - Robert T Freeman is 1st black to graduate from Harvard Dental School

1862 - Federal tax levied on tobacco

1859 - 1st Pullman sleeping car in service

1859 - R C Carrington & R Hodgson make 1st observation of solar flare; affects 

            electrical telegraph service

1836 - Narcissa Whitman, one of the first white women to settle west of the Rocky Mountains, arrives at Walla Walla, Washington

1804 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German

            astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding

1700’s

1799 - Bank of Manhattan Company opens in NYC (forerunner to Chase Manhattan)

1600’s

1689 - Russia began taxing men's beards

1640 - A treaty agreement cover land cessions between the Mohegan and Connecticut

1500’s

1535 - French navigator Jacques Cartier reaches Hochelaga (Montreal)

1200’s

1267 - Rabbi Moses Ben Nachman establishes a Jewish community in Jerusalem

Before 1000CE

69 - Traditional date of destruction of Jerusalem

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 30’s

Scott Speedman, actor is 37

In their 40’s

Tim Hardaway, NBA guard (Miami Heat, Warriors) is 46

In their 50’s

 Gloria Estefan, [Fajardo], Havana, singer (Miami Sound Machine-Conga) is 55

In their 60’s

Barry Gibb, Manchester England, guitarist/singer (Bee Gees) is 66

Don Stroud, actor (Coogan's Bluff, Buddy Holly Story) is 69

In their 70’s

 Lily Tomlin, comedienne/actress (9 to 5, Laugh-in, All of Me) is 73

In their 80’s

George Maharis, actor (Rich Man, Poor Man, Route 66) is 84

Remembered for being born today

Edgar Rice Burroughs, US, sci-fi author (Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga) b. 1875

James "Gentleman Jim" Corbett, heavyweight champion boxer b. 1866

Rocky Marciano, Brockton, Massachusetts, heavyweight champion boxer 

      (1952-56) b. 1923

"Boxcar" Willie [Lecil Travis Martin], singer b. 1931

Ann Richards, (Gov-D-Tx) b. 1933

Lydia Sigourney, US, religious author (How to Be Happy) b. 1791

Conway Twitty, [Harold Jenkins], Miss, country singer (Hello Darlin') b. 1933

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Jacques Cartier, French explorer—typhus (?)—1557—at 65 

William Clark, 2nd lt of Lewis & Clark Expedition—1838—at 68

Henry "Scoop" Jackson, (Sen-D-Wash)-- aortic aneurysm—1983-- at 71

Louis XIV, the sun king of France (72 years, 100 days)—gangrene—1715—at  76

Ethel Waters, actress (Beulah)/singer (Stormy Weather)—1977—at 80

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

The hairstyle in which a strip of hair across the top of the head is longer and higher than the hair on the remainder of the head, as once worn by David Beckham. The name is a play on words, referring to the style's more dramatic inspiration, the Mohawk, in which the sides of the head are completely shaved, elevating the remaining top hairs to a splendid crest. American Paratroopers during World War II adopted the cut and it was popularized by the actor Mr. T in the Eighties television series The A-Team.

What is the answer?

Allow now

Rebus

 Get up and go

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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