9/17/13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 38/ Day: 260   

Today: H 73°…L 46°…Ave. humidity:  67%

Wind: ave:   1mph; Gusts:  2mph  

Average Low: 42°  Record Low: 28° (1971)

Average High: 73° Record High: 88° (2000)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

"M*A*S*H," premieres on NBC TV…1972

"Mission Impossible" premieres on CBS-TV…1967

1st treaty between the US & Indian tribes signed (Fort Pitt, DE)…1778

24th Olympic Games open at Seoul, Korea…1988

Arabs conquer Alexandria, library destroyed…642

Boston, Massachusetts is founded…1630

Church of Holy Sepulcher initiated in Jerusalem…335

Edinburg occupied by Jacobites under Young Pretender…1745

Great fire in San Francisco…1850

Harriet Tubman 1st escapes slavery in Maryland with two of her brothers…1849

Manfred von Richthofen [The Red Baron]wins first aerial combat…1916

Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zucotti Park, New York City…2011

US constitution adopted by Philadelphia convention…1787

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Nice day started out…planned on getting my hair cut but my haircut lady isn’t working until Friday. Then I checked the news and was shocked to hear about the DC killings. When, if ever, are we going to figure out a way to keep guns out of the hands of mentally deranged people? We now live in such horrific times…and we remain so unprepared.

 

And after we figure that out…let’s figure out how to keep Twitter and other social media out of the hands of racists. I am not now, nor ever have been…except one year when one of my high school cheerleaders was in the contest…been a fan of Miss America. So I didn’t watch it when the top two were an Asian and an India-Indian. Then the internet machine came all upset that a cookie cutter white girl didn’t win. The winner took it in stride, but I’m sure the sickening comments have made their way around the world. Such a sad picture for others to see of Americans.

 

It’s clouding up again here in Flag after a great day…so will probably get our daily rain later tonight. I still can’t believe how green our city has become. I even have an 8” mushroom growing by the fence near my deck. WOW!

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Once again, the Booker Prize panel is sitting. And again an excerpt from a book has some key words missing. Can you fill in the blanks so the story makes sense and also spot the connection between them? 

Mr. Ix was speeding through the streets of Wimbledon, when he was pulled over by a police officer.  "It isn't my ____!" wailed Mr. Ix noisily.  "It ____ you right," replied the officer.  "Will it come to ____?" Ix inquired.  "If you keep up this ____ it will," the officer replied severely.  "It is not as if I gained any ____," Ix said ____edly.  "I would ____ to ____ you off with a caution," admitted the officer, "but I can't allow you through the ____ on this one," he continued.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• "M*A*S*H" TV series Opening

• Bewitched TV Intro Theme Song

• Rita Rudner

• All we really are is Dustin Nguyen

• Ken Kesey describes his first LSD trip

• Mission: Impossible Opening Montage

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of... Constipation
You're suffering from... Coprostasophobia (conpr is Greek (meaning feces), sta is Latin (meaning fixed))

If you have an irrational fear of... Contamination
You're suffering from... Misophobia (Latin (meaning filth)

It is Illegal…

You May Not Take a Picture of a Rabbit during the Month of June In Wyoming

Privileges granted to people in the U.S. (and many western nations) for being Christian…

Fundraising to support congregations of your faith will not be investigated as potentially threatening or terrorist behavior.

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

Minimum number of immigrants who have been involuntarily repatriated by US hospitals In the past 5 year: 600

Unusual Fact of the Day

Felines have thirty-two muscles in each ear which control intricate movements for directional hearing.

Animals with the strongest jaws…

Nile Crocodile 5000 psi

In the National Geographic experiment the Nile Croc actually tested lower than the Saltwater Croc, but most other sources have the Nile Croc at 5000 psi. Nile Crocs tend to be about the same size as Saltwater Crocs and thus their bite seems to be at the same range. The two are interchangeable when it comes to the placing on this list and the numbers will vary due to the difficulty in measuring the bites of each and getting the right sized croc to measure.

Nile crocs eat mainly fish but like their cousins, they will attack anything dumb enough to cross its path. This includes zebras, birds and even small hippos.

Joke-of-the-day

A wife was making a breakfast of fried eggs for her husband.

Suddenly, her husband burst into the kitchen. 'Careful,' he said, 'CAREFUL! Put in some more butter! Oh my gosh! You're cooking too many at once. TOO MANY! Turn them! TURN THEM NOW! We need more butter. Oh my gosh! WHERE are we going to get MORE BUTTER? They're going to STICK! Careful. CAREFUL! I said be CAREFUL! You NEVER listen to me when you're cooking! Never! Turn them! Hurry up!

Are you CRAZY? Have you LOST your mind? Don't forget to salt them. You know you always forget to salt them. Use the salt. USE THE SALT! THE SALT!'

The wife stared at him. 'What in the world is wrong with you? You think I don't know how to fry a couple of eggs?'

The husband calmly replied, 'I just wanted to show you what it feels like when I'm driving.'

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

WORKING WITH GROUPS

Twenty percent of any group will be critical of the rest.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

HONOLULU - A Hawaiian woman whose last name is 35 letters long said the state has told her to shorten it to fit on a state-issued ID card. Janice "Lokelani" Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said she has been carrying both her driver's license and her state ID for the past 20 years because her driver's license could only fit her last name, and even that was missing its final letter, KHON-TV, Honolulu, reported Thursday. She said the state ID was able to fit her full name. "The governor's office went back into the computer department and they found a way to put our name on our state ID," Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said. However, she said her state ID expired in May, and the replacement issued to her by the state has the same name problem as the driver's license. Keihanaikukauakahihuliheekahaunaele said county officials told her to use her maiden name or shorten her last name. However, she said the name is all she has left of her late husband. Department of Transportation spokeswoman Caroline Sluyter said the issue is being looked at by officials. "We have been made aware of that issue and I know right now they are working to extend that limit to, I believe, 40 characters so that issue can be resolved," the spokeswoman said.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The first flight attendant was actually a man. A German named Mr. Heinrich Kubis was the world's first flight attendant in 1912.

• The first female attendant was a registered nurse named Ellen Church in 1930. Nurses were the preferred flight attendants in this time. 

• In the 1960s you could not just be a flight attendant. You had to pass the height, weight, marital status test and not forgetting the age limitation. In this order, you had to be at least 5-foot-2, weigh less than 130 pounds, be single and childless and retire at the ripe old age of 32 years.

• Flight attendants can be viewed as undercover agents. Many flight attendants work in collaboration with the police to curtail human trafficking. Flight attendants are trained on what to look for in people they suspect and how to respond to such situations.

• A newbie flight attendant is on six months probation and is limited to wearing slightly longer skirts than seniors. After probation, they can hem their skirts to the desired length.

• A yearly training program does the world the benefit of trimming any flight attendants who cannot pass it. There is a possibility it might involve checking for height violators or emergency exit windows non-fits.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

 15th-21st

Balance Awareness Week
Build A Better Image Week
Dating and Life Coach Recognition Week
National Clean Hands Week
National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week
National Indoor Plant Week

National Love Your Files Week

National Rehabilitation Awareness Week
National Singles Week
Pollution Prevention Week
Prostate Cancer Awareness Week

17th-23^rd

Constitution Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        International Coastal Cleanup

·        International Eat an Apple Day

·        National Apple Dumpling Day

·        Time's Up Day

·        VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day

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·        Angola: Day of the National Hero (birthday of the national hero Agostinho Neto)

Today’s Events through History  

"Bewitched" premieres on ABC TV…1964

Cuba nationalizes US banks…1960

Fleetwood Mac's "Rumors" is #1 for 19th straight week…1977

Jackie Robinson is named Rookie of Year by Sporting News…1947

North Atlantic Treaty Council meets for 1st time…1949

RCA Victor re leases 1st 33 1/3 rpm recording (Beethoven's 5th)…1934

The Presidio of San Francisco is founded in New Spain…1776

US Department of Defense forms…1947

US Senate confirms William Rehnquist as 16th chief justice…1984

Vanessa Williams (NY), 20, crowned 56th Miss America…1983

William Herschel discovers Mimas, satellite of Saturn…1789

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Rita Rudner, comedienne (Funny People) is 60

Dustin Nguyen, Saigon, actor (Harry-21 Jump Street) is 51

Hope Larson, American illustrator and cartoonist is 31

Remembered for being born today

Hank Williams, country singer (Cold, Cold Heart) [1923-1953]

John Willard Marriott, American hotelier [1900-1985]

Warren E Burger, Supreme Court chief justice [1907-1995]

Ken Kesey, author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest) [1935-2001]

John Ritter, actor (Jack-3's Company) [1948-2003]

Anne Bancroft, actor (Graduate, Miracle Worker) [1931-2005]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Laura Ashley, Welsh fashion designer…brain hemorage…1985…@60

Richard Basehart, actor (Voyage to Bottom of Sea)…strokes…1984…@70

Charles Alfred Pillsbury, American industrialist…heart attack…1899…@58

Dred Scott, US slave (REV-decision Supreme court)…TB…1858…@62ish

(Richard Bernard) Red Skelton, comedian (Red Skelton Show)…1997…@84

William Henry Fox Talbot, photographic pioneer…1877…@77

Mildred E "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, (Olympic-gold-1932)…cancer…1956…@42

Brain Teasers

Mr. Ix was speeding through the streets of Wimbledon, when he was pulled over by a police officer. 

"It isn't my FAULT!" wailed Mr. Ix noisily. 

"It SERVES you right," replied the officer. 

"Will it come to COURT?" Ix inquired. 

"If you keep up this RACKET it will," the officer replied severely. 

"It is not as if I gained any ADVANTAGE," Ix said POINTedly. 

"I would LOVE to LET you off with a caution," admitted the officer, "but I can't allow you through the NET on this one," he continued. 

FAULT 

SERVES 

COURT 

RACKET 

ADVANTAGE 

POINT 

LOVE 

LET 

NET 

These are all terms used in the game of tennis. A famous tennis competition is held annually in Wimbledon.

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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