Feb 8, 2013

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 06/ Day: 39   

Today: H   48°…L 20° Averages: H  44° L 18° Records: H   66°(1963)…L -18°(1903)

Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  17mph  Ave. humidity:  70%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Stars & Stripes," weekly US armed forces newspaper, 1st published—1918

1st opera in US "Flora," opens in Charleston, SC—1735

1st VP chosen by Senate, Richard Johnson (Van Buren admin) —1837

Confederate States of America organizes—1861

Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the UK—1952

KOY-AM in Phoenix Arizona begins radio transmissions—1929

Tchaikovsky/Petipa's "Swan Lake," premieres in Petersburg—1895

William & Mary college is 2nd college chartered in US—1693

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Had a good lunch with Mary today. We had some great food and good conversation. Her house deal is looking better and better each day. She sent pics and it is a nice place.

 

I ran into an old colleague. Actually he is only a year older than I am, but has had multiple health problems. Now is on Oxygen and his heart was severely damaged after a heart attack years ago. Now it is dong 18% of the job it is supposed to do. He is in decent spirits; his kids are doing well as is his wife. I must say it was quite a shock to see such a vibrant Navajo leader in such poor health.  We shared some old boarding school stories and he said it was good to see me in such good health. So sad to hear to that comment.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

*N E W *Hidden Word

Hidden in each of the sentences below are the numbers 1 to 10 in words.

The robins love hiding amongst the smooth reeds.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• The Honeymooners ~ Audrey Meadows

• James Dean - Interview

Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

In a Restaurant window:

"Don't stand there and be hungry; come on in and get fed up."

Picture of the Day: Uganda

A stop at a curio place, in the middle of nowhere. There were 3 kids in the family and not one of them came up to ask for anything. Very nice and just after this photo he brought his small baby brother over to introduce us, still not asking for anything. I think we all tipped him for being so nice.

Harper’s Index:         

Percentage of Americans who belive Obama would handle an extraterrestrial invasion better thatn Romney: 65

Unusual Fact of the Day:

John Adams drank a tankard of hard cider each day and had the occasional beer for breakfast.

Joke-of-the-day:

A soldier was asked to report to headquarters for assignment. The sergeant said: "We have a critical shortage of typists. I'll give you a little test. Type this," he ordered, giving him a pamphlet to copy and a sheet of paper, and pointing to a desk across the room that held a typewriter and an adding machine.

The man, quite reluctant to become a clerk typist, made a point of typing very slowly, and saw to it that his work contained as many errors as possible.

The sergeant gave the typed copy only a brief glance.

"That's fine," he said; "Report for work at 8 tomorrow."

"But aren't you going to check the test?" the prospective clerk asked.

The sergeant grinned. "You passed the test," he replied, "when you sat down at the typewriter instead of at the adding machine."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

PREDICTING YOUR MARATHON TIME

You can predict your marathon time by multiplying your best 10 kilometer time by 4.65.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

LEHIGH ACRES, Fla. - Authorities in Florida said a man was hospitalized with burn wounds after accidentally shooting himself in the groin with a flare gun. The Lee County Sheriff's Office said deputies responded to a medical assistance call Sunday in Lehigh Acres and arrived to find Jorge Perez, 23, with multiple burns and lacerations on his genital region, WZVN-TV, Fort Myers, reported Tuesday. Perez told deputies he had loaded the flare gun and set it down Sunday. He later picked it up and, forgetting he had loaded it, fired it at the ground. The man said the flare bounced off the floor and struck him in the genitals.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The most famous example in the 20th century is Germany's Weimer Republic of 1922-1923. When Germany was unable to pay the war reparations imposed after WW I the government began printing unbacked currency. 

• Too much money was circulated, and the money was soon considered worthless. In 1922, the largest denomination of the Papiermark was 50,000. A year later it was 100 Trillion. This means that by December 1923, the exchange rate with the US Dollar was 4.2 Trillion to 1. It is estimated that by November 1923, the yearly inflation rate was 325,000,000 percent.

• The most recent example is Zimbabwe. When Zimbabwe became an independent African state in 1980, the Zimbabwe dollar was actually valued higher than the US dollar, at a rate of 1 to 1.25. Through a series of questionable race-based land seizures and rampant money-printing, the Zimbabwe dollar began to experience rampant inflation. By 2006 it surged to 1,730 percent. In August 2006, the currency was replaced with a New Zimbabwe dollar at a rate of 1 to 1,000. By mid-2007, inflation reached a yearly increase of 11,000 percent. By May 2008, 100 Million and 250 Million New Zimbabwe Dollars (ZWD) denominated notes were released. Eventually the government was printing 100 Billion denomination notes.  

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

3-9
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week

Dump Your Significant Jerk Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Publicity for Profit Week

4-8
Intimate Apparel Week
International Networking Week
International Friendship Week
National School Counseling Week

7-14
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
Risk Awareness Week
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week

Today Is                                                                      

Boy Scout Anniversary Day 1910

Kite Flying Day

Laugh and Get Rich Day

Opera Day

~Extraterrestrial Culture Day (New Mexico)

~Culture Day (Slovenia)

Today’s Events through History  

16th Winter Olympic games opens in Albertville, France—1992

19th Winter Olympics opens in Salt Lake City, Utah—2002

5th Winter Olympic games close at St Moritz, Switzerland—1948

Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should 

     be locked up en masse—1942

Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London—1672

Nebraska bans electric chair as sole execution method—2008

Senate names 7 members to investigate Watergate scandal—1973

Scottish inventor J Blaird demonstrates color-TV—1928

Under the Dawes Act indians living apart from tribe granted citizenship to 

    survey Native American tribal land and divide it into individual allotments—1887

Walt Disney Studios forms—1926

Wayne Gretzky sets NHL all star record of 4 goals in 1 period—1983

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Robert Klein, Bronx, comedian/actor (Hooper, Deadly Rivals) is 71

Ted Koppel, Lancashire England, American journalist (ABC Nightline) is 73

Nick Nolte, actor (Teachers, 48 Hrs, Rich Man Poor Man) is 73

In their 60’s

 Mary Steenburgen, actress (Parenthood, Time After Time) is 60

In their 50’s

John Grisham, writer (Client, Firm, Pelican Brief) is 58

In their 30’s

Seth Green, comedian, voice actor, television producer and screenwriter is 39

Remembered for being born today

James Dean, stage/film actor (Giant, Rebel Without a Cause) (1931-1955)

Jack Lemmon, Boston Mass, actor (Days of Wine & Roses, Missing) (1925-2001)

Audrey Meadows, American actress (Alice-Honeymooners) (1922- 1996)

Charlie Ruggles, LA California, actor (Ruggles, Aesop-Bullwinkle Show) (1886-1970)

William Tecumseh Sherman, Major General (Union Army) (1820-1891)

Lana Turner, Wallace Idaho, actress (Survivors, Falcon Crest) (1920-1995)

Jules Verne, France, pioneered sci-fi (From the Earth to the Moon) (1828-1905)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Max Liebermann, Ger impressionist painter/graphic artist—1935—at 87

Connie Mack, baseball manager (Phila A's, 1901-50)—1956—at 93

Marvin Miller, actor (Michael Anthony-Millionaire)—heart attack—1985—at 71

Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia—uremia—1725—at 52

Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway)—shoots self—1990—at 50

Answer: Hidden Word

The robins love hiding amongst the smooTH REEds.

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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