9/6/13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 36/ Day: 249   

Today: H 76°…L 51°

Wind: ave:   5mph; Gusts:  18mph  

Ave. humidity:  56%

Record Low: 31° (1961)

Record High: 89° (1945)

Average Low: 46°

Average High: 76°

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1st US lighthouse built (Boston)…1716

Canadian TV begins in Montreal…1952

Carnation processes its 1st can of evaporated milk…1899

Cherokee Nation forms…1839

Comanche sign a treaty with Union representative at Fort Wise,CO…1861

Frederick Douglass is 1st US black delegate to a national convention…1866

Pres McKinley, shot, dies 8th days later…1901

Princess Diana's funeral…1997

Puritans land at Salem, from Mass Bay Colony…1628

Saint Petersburg restored as Russia's 2nd largest city, renamed Leningrad in 1924…1991

Summer Olympics resume in Munich Germany after massacre…1972

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

I had a great lunch with Cheryl today. We both agree that we are way past ‘drama’ in our lives. It is nice to have friends, but when they constantly live from one drama to the next, it gets very old very fast. Her issue is one of her neighbors, mine is my former financial advisor. Since Cheryl spent a number of years in that business, as a trainer, she was able to put some new light on our mutual acquaintance. While for over 30 years my former spent her life dealing with her clients. Little did any of us realize that she was also looking for a man. When she found a man, she let her business fall apart. Now that she is married, neither she nor her husband seems to be that involved in salvaging her former business. I had seen this as strange, ever since I heard the stories from her. Now I see that there is more going on for sure. My finances are safe, but it is sad to see someone just walk away from a business that was so important to her and her ‘later years’. I’m actually happy that she has a new love and that she is ready to head for her new home, mainly because I won’t have to hear about the drama.

 

The weatherman says we are in for a few days of dry weather, but the clouds outside sure look like rain, and they have cooled things off a lot in the past hour or so. I have one of those ‘atomic clocks’, the kind that figure out the time from some satellite somewhere. It also has a temperature remote for outside. During the past few weeks it was only getting the temperature on a sporadic basis. Don’t really know why because neither the clock nor the remote have moved. Today I moved the remote from the back of the house to the front of the house, and everything seems to be working again. Hope it continues to let me know how hot/cold it is outside.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

I have listed the following as Happy Words. What is it about these words that suggests that they are "Happy"?

Semicircle Mesdemoiselles Postmillennial Assimilate Snowmobile Superfamilies

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Luciano Pavarotti - Ave Maria

• Walkin' the floor over you - Ernest Tubb

• Madeleine L'Engle - Fact & Truth in Religion

• Laugh-In Blooper - Ruth & Joanne Need 6 Takes

• JANE & AKROYD

• "Moms" from the hit CBS sitcom Mike & Molly

• Easier as a Latino? Actually...Rosie Perez

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of... Bridges, crossing
You're suffering from... Gephyrophobia [Greek: gephyra 'bridge']

If you have an irrational fear of... Bulls
You're suffering from... Taurophobia [Greek: tauro (meaning bull)]

It is Illegal…

Waking a Sleeping Bear for a Photo Opportunity Is Strictly Forbidden In Alaska

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

Positive references to your faith are seen dozens of times a day by everyone, regardless of their faith.

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

Portion of Americans who envision ‘occasional acts of terrorims’ as part of futre life in the US: 3/4

Unusual Fact of the Day

Caffeine serves the function of a pesticide in a coffee plant.

Joke-of-the-day

A man visiting a graveyard saw a tombstone that read: “Here lies John Smith, a lawyer and an honest man.”

“How about that!” he exclaimed. “They’ve got three people buried in one grave.”

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

BUYING SKI BOOTS

Properly fitted cross-country ski boots should feel like bedroom slippers.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

COLUMBIA, Mo. - Snapping turtles are increasingly moving into U.S. urban areas as their natural habitats are being polluted or destroyed by development, wildlife experts say. "Snapping turtles are animals that can live in almost any aquatic habitat as long as their basic needs for survival are met," Bill Peterman, a postdoctoral researcher in biology at the University of Missouri said. "Unfortunately, suitable aquatic habitats for turtles are being degraded by pollution or completely lost due to development. We found that snapping turtles can persist in urbanized areas, despite the potential for more interaction with humans." That interaction should not be a concern to people, he said. "Everyone has a snapping turtle story, but some are just too far-fetched and lead to false accusations," Peterman said in a university release. "In reality, snapping turtles aren't aggressive animals and won't bite unless they are provoked. So, if you should happen to see one around your property, simply leave it alone and let it go about its business." Reducing negative inputs such as waste and harmful chemicals into waterways will help restore snapping turtles' habitats, he said. Researchers looked at snapping turtles living in the Central Canal that flows through urban Indianapolis. "While we didn't study whether the snapping turtle populations were increasing or decreasing, we regularly saw hatchling and juvenile snapping turtles," Peterman said. "Snapping turtles may not be the first animals that come to mind when thinking about urban wildlife, but if we continue to improve waterways in more places, such as big cities, then the species can coexist peacefully."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The British Raj, or British rule, lasted from 1858 to 1947 (although they had a strong presence in India since the 1700s). British influence is still seen in Indian architecture, education system, transportation, and politics. Many of India's worst famines are associated with British rule in India.

• Indians made significant contributions to calculus, trigonometry, and algebra. The decimal system was invented in India in 100 B.C. The concept of zero as a number is also attributed to India.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1^st-7^th

International Enthusiasm Week
National Nutrition Week

National Waffle Week
Self-University Week
National Payroll Week

3rd -7th  

Play Days

Today Is                                                                       

·        Fight Procrastination Day

·        National Lazy Mom's Day

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·        Bulgaria: Unification Day (unification of Eastern Rumelia and Bulgaria in 1885)

·        Pakistan: Defense of Pakistan Day (for Martyrs of Indo-Pakistani War: 1965)

·        Swaziland: Independence Day (1968 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

200 Indian survivors of King Philip's War find refuge at Cochecho (modern Dover), NH

Historian Lee Allen says Indians-Senators game is 100,000th in history…1963

Juliana becomes queen of Netherlands…1948

Magellen with Vittoria returns to Spain, after 1st round world trip…1522

Queen Victoria establishes Distinguished Service Order (DSO) award…1886

Senate Ethics committee votes 6-0 to ask for expulsion of Bob Packwood…1995

Thomas Blanchard patents lathe…1819

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Jo Anne Worley, comedienne (Laugh-in) is 76

David Allan Coe, country musician (Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy) is 74

Swoosie Kurtz, actress (Slap Shot, Garp, Sisters) is 69

Jane Curtin, actress (SNL, Allie Lowell-Kate & Allie) is 66

Jeff Foxworthy, comedian (The Jeff Foxworthy Show) is 55

Rosie Perez, actress (Do the Right Thing, White Men Can't Jump) is 49

Pippa Middleton, English socialite is 30

Remembered for being born today

Jane Addams, pacifist/social worker/feminist (Nobel 1931) [1860-1935]

John Dalton, English physicist, developed atomic theory of matter [1766-1844]

Alexander Tilloch Galt, a Canadian founding father [1817-1893]

Joseph P Kennedy, diplomat, father of JFK, RFK & Teddy [1888-1969]

Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church [1711-1787]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Jake Eberts, Canadian producer [Chariots of Fire, Gandhi, Dances with 

     Wolves]…cancer…2012…at 71

Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater)…TB…1990…at 48

Madeleine L'Engle, author [A Wrinkle in Time]…2007…at 88

Quinn Martin, television producer…heart attack…1987…at 65

Art Modell [Arthur], businessman, NFL owner…heart failure…2012…at 87

Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor…cancer…2007…at 71

Ernest Tubb, singer (Grand Ole Opry)… emphysema…1984…at 70

Brain Teasers

The words all contain the letters S-M-I-L-E in order. They all have a smile, so they must be happy!

e.g. SeMicIrcLE

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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