Jna 30, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 05/ Day:    

Today: H   29°…L 12° Averages: H  43° L 18° Records: H   60°(1986)…L -18°(1932)

Wind: ave:   9mph; Gusts:  24mph  ave. humidity:  71%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

“Lone Ranger" begins a 21-year run on ABC radio—1933

Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage—2003

Bell chimes invented—1487

Burned Library of Congress reestablished with Jefferson's 6500 vols—1815

Elvis Presley records his version of "Blue Suede Shoes"—1956

KAET TV channel 8 in Phoenix, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting—1961 

KRMA TV channel 6 in Denver, CO (PBS) begins broadcasting—1956

Keats composes his sonnet, "When I Have Fears"—1818

Pneumatic hammer patented by Charles King of Detroit—1894

State funeral of Winston Churchill—1965

US Navy's 1st ironclad warship (Monitor) launched—1862

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Getting back to normal…laundry done, mail picked up, chilly but not cold today…winds have sorta died down.

 

As immigration reform starts to take form, I agree with Obama that this is the time. Even John McCain has yet again changed his stand, as has our new Senator. Very cool. After my recent experiences watching ‘border control’ politicians are finally admitting that we are a nation of immigrants and that the vast majority are not here to commit crimes. Of course our wonderful governor is disappointed. Disappointment is good, maybe she will grow up. As Obama said today, it isn’t going to be easy, but now is the time.

 

I think I am ready to start working on my pictures. Turns out a few of my fellow travelers brought home some unexpected ‘creatures’. They look like boils, but are actually some kind of fly larvae that ‘develop’ and cause swelling and redness. One person was briefly hospitalized but others just had a cleaning out and some antibiotics. They picked them up in the rain forest on one of our treks. Luckily I only got a few fire ant bites…and a few other bug bites.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Hidden Word

Find a hidden word in the sentence

Women crave stability and a clean living room.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• "When I have Fears that I may Cease to be" by John Keats

• elvis presley blue suede shoes

Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

At a Towing company: "We don't charge an arm and a leg. We want tows."

 Picture of the Day: 1960’s TV

Harper’s Index:         

Percentage by which sales of convertibles increase when  the temperatures increase is at least 20 degrees warmer than average: 8.5

Unusual Fact of the Day:

A person of average size and weight burns about 60 to 70 calories each hour just by sitting and watching television.

Joke-of-the-day:

For his entire working life, a dedicated and hardworking Astrophysicist tried in all earnest to find the existence of other being somewhere in the universe. After 58 years of constant effort, he finally receives a response from a planet 30 billion light years away.

“What is your planet like?” groaned the extraterrestrial from the other side of the Galaxy.

“It is 12,756 Kilometers in diameter, is 93,000,000 miles from the nearest star, our sun, has an average temperature of 72 degrees F. We breathe oxygen, live about 75 years, and have both men and women” answered the Physicist.

“Do the you get along with the women on your planet?” the extraterrestrial asked slowly.

Puzzled by the question, but not wanting to insult the female Physicists near by, he answered “Why yes. We get along quite well here.”

The extraterrestrial perked up “Can we send you ours?”

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

AGING GRACEFULLY

If you want to know what your girlfriend will look like in 20 years, take a good look at her mother.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

BRUNSWICK, Ohio - Police said an Ohio woman, upset that another woman called her son a bully, punched the other woman outside of a middle school. Brunswick Police said witnesses reported seeing Connie Edmiston, 42, approach the other woman's car outside of Willetts Middle School after school Tuesday with her 13-year-old son in tow, and order the other woman to get out of the vehicle, The Medina (Ohio) Gazette reported Thursday. The alleged victim rolled down the window and Edmiston reached in and repeatedly punched the other woman in the face, witnesses told police. The alleged victim told investigators she had lectured Edmiston's son earlier in the school year when she saw him bully other students. Witnesses said Edmiston was yelling during the alleged attack about "calling her son a bully." Police said the alleged victim was taken to Southwest General Hospital as a precaution because she suffers from multiple sclerosis and a blow to the head could prove fatal. Edmiston was arrested shortly after the incident when she went to the police station to discuss the incident. She denied hitting the other woman and claimed the alleged victim had spit in her face. Edmiston was charged with assault.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Archeologists have found evidence that humans have been enjoying apples since at least 6500 B.C.

• Apples have five seed pockets or carpels. Each pocket contains seeds. The number of seeds per carpel is determined by the vigor and health of the plant. Different varieties of apples will have different number of seeds.

• Fresh apples float because 25% of their volume is air.

• The old saying "an apple a day, keeps the doctor away" comes from am old English adage, "To eat an apple before going to bed, will make the doctor beg his bread."

• Apples ripen six to ten times faster at room temperature than if they were refrigerated. For optimal storage, apples should be kept at 35-40 degrees with relative humidity of 80-90%.

• Planting an apple seed from a particular apple will not produce a tree of that same variety. The seed is a cross of the tree the fruit was grown on and the variety that was the cross pollinator.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

27-2/2

World Leprosy Week

Catholic Schools Week

Meat Week

National Cowboy Poetry Gathering Week

National Medical Group Practice Week

International Hoof Care Week

US National Snow Sculpting Week

Today Is                                                                      

Escape Day—to get away from the daily routine and do something else

Inane Answering Message Day

Today’s Events through History  

1st issue of Franklin Roosevelt dime—1946

1st radio telephone connection between Netherlands & US—1928

5 Pharaoh sculptures from 1470 BC found at temple of Luxor—1989

Articles of Confederation ratified by 13th state, Maryland—1781

Bobby Darin is youngest performer to headline a TV special on NBC—1961

Charlie Chaplin's "City Lights" premieres at Los Angeles Theater —1931

George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) —1976

Hitler calls for extermination of European Jews—1939

2 members of Flying Wallendas' high-wire act killed when their 7-person pyramid collapsed during a performance in Detroit —1962

Kevin Eubanks officially becomes band leader of "Tonight Show"—1995

KISS plays their 1st show (Coventry Club in Queens NY) —1973

Lifeboat 1st tested at sea, by Mr Greathead, the inventor—1790

Menai Suspension Bridge, considered the world's first modern suspension bridge, connecting the Isle of Anglesey to the north West coast of Wales is opened—1826

Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England is ritually executed after having been dead for two years—1661

Richard Skrenta writes the first PC virus code, which is 400 lines long and disguised as an Apple boot program called "Elk Cloner"—1982

Scots agree to sell King Charles I to English Parliament for £400—1647

Seminole Chief Osceola dies today at Fort Moultrie, in Charleston, South Carolina. It is believe he has some sort of throat disease, others will say malaria, other say of a broken heart—1838

US invades Majuro, Marshall Islands—1944

World Law Day, 1st celebrated—1922

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Gene Hackman , actor (Bonnie & Clyde, Under Fire, Superman) is 83

In their 70’s

Dick Cheney, Lincoln, Nebraska, 46th US Vice President is 72

Vanessa Redgrave, actress (Blow-Up, Julia, Orient Express) is 76

Boris Spassky, USSR, world chess champion (1969-72) is 76

In their 30’s

Christian Bale, Wales, actor (Empire of the Sun, Little Women) is 39

Remembered for being born today

Thomas Rolfe, American colonial settler and only child of Pocahontas and John Rolfe (1615-1675)

Franklin Roosevelt, New Hyde Park NY, 32nd US President (1933-1945), (1882-1945)

Dick Martin, comedian (Laugh In) (1922-2008)

John Ireland, Vancouver BC, actor (Rawhide, Gunfight at OK Corral) (1914-1992)

Dorothy Malone, actress (At Gunpoint, Night & Day, Peyton Place) is 88

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Frank Nelson Doubleday, American publisher in 1934 at 72

Mahatma Gandhi, India's political and spiritual leader, assassinated in 1948 at 78

Ed Herlihy, American broadcaster in 1999 at 89

John McIntire, actor (Virginian, Psycho), emphysema  in 1991 at 83

Betsy Ross [Elizabeth Griscom], widely credited with making the first American flag in 1836 at 84

Sidney Sheldon, American author, playwright, and screenwriter in 2007 at 89

Answer: Hidden Countries

Women craVE STability and a clean living room.

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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