10/11/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 41/ Day: 284    

Today: L 32°…H 44°… Ave. humidity: 45%

Wind: ave:   21mph; Gusts:  41mph  

Average Low: 33° Record Low:  19° (1920)

Average High: 65° Record High:  80° (1965)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1st 3-way US presidential debate (Bush-Clinton-Perot)…1992

1st license to broadcast television in color, to CBS…1950

1st political telecast (Democratic National Committee) at CBS, NYC…1932

1st space walk by US woman (Dr Kathryn D Sullivan)…1984

1st woman FBI "special investigator" appointed (Alaska Davidson)…1922

Earthquake kills 300,000 and destroys half of Calcutta India…1737

JC Penney becomes a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states…1929

Peter the Great becomes tsar of Russia…1689

SF begins school for "Asians"…1906

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

So I woke up to some light snow, then the sun, then heavy snow, then sun, the lots of clouds all the time dealing with strong winds. We never got the predicted 3-5” but did get enough to dust the ground. Been about 80 years since we had snow on the 10^th, but in 1961 we had 7” on Oct. 9. All of this did put me in the mood for some winter. Didn’t get outside very much as the wind certainly had a chill. Then made a crock pot full of homemade chili..Looking forward to a less windy day tomorrow.

So the children in DC met today…and left without talking to press. They say this is a good sign. Now that is old time politics…backroom with no one talking about what was discussed. News outlets are freaking out. They are trying to make stories, but since no one is talking, it is all guess work.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

In this teaser you have been given two (2) clues in each line. Each answer to the clue comprises six (6) letters. Each 6-letter word differs by only one (1) letter, which I have given you. Your task is to discover the answers to the clues provided. The order of the letters do not change.
Example:
Remove _ _ _ I _ _ / _ _ _ U _ _ Justify
Answer:
E X C (I) S E / E X C (U) S E

1. Pliant _ _ _ _ _ E / _ _ _ _ _ Y Stash

2. Inundate _ _ _ _ G _ / _ _ _ _ X _ Elegant

3. Expenditure P _ _ _ _ _ / L _ _ _ _ _ Spread

4. Chevron _ _ _ _ P _ / _ _ _ _ K _ Hit

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Tribute to Ty Murray - King of Cowboys

• Eleanor Roosevelt - Top 10 Quotes

• Dottie West -- Country Sunshine

• Tex Williams, "Talking Boogie"

• Flowers & Madame - RSVP Cruise
Graphic Language

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of... Flowers
You're suffering from... Anthophobia Greek anthos 'flower'

If you have an irrational fear of... Flutes
You're suffering from... Aulophobia  aulo Greek tube, pipe 

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

Percentage of authorized US firearms dealser the AFT hsn’t inspected in the past 5 years: 58

Darwin Awards 2013  

Third Place 

After stepping around a marked police patrol car parked at the front door, a man walked into H&J Leather & Firearms intent on robbing the store. The shop was full of customers and a uniformed officer was standing at the counter. Upon seeing the officer, the would-be robber announced a hold-up and fired a few wild shots from a target pistol. The officer and a clerk promptly returned fire, and several customers also drew their guns and fired. The robber was pronounced dead at the scene by 

Paramedics. Crime scene investigators located 47 expended cartridge cases in the shop. The subsequent autopsy revealed 23 gunshot wounds. Ballistics identified rounds from 7 different weapons. No one else was hurt. 

Unusual Fact of the Day

Not a single witch was burned at the stake after being convicted in the Salem witch trials. (Most were hanged.)

Joke-of-the-day

The children were lined up in the cafeteria of a Catholic elementary school for lunch. At the head of the table was a large pile of apples.. The nun made a note, and posted on the apple tray: 'Take only ONE . God is watching.'

Moving further along the lunch line, at the other end of the table was a large pile of chocolate chip cookies.

A child had written a note, 'Take all you want. God is watching the apples'.

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

THWARTING A BURGLAR

The average burglar will spend only five or six minutes trying to break into a house. If you make your place look formidable, he'll go to your neighbor's instead.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

NEW HAVEN, Conn. - Yale University police are investigating a series of laundry-tampering incidents carried out by a suspect dubbed "the poopetrator" at the Connecticut school. Students using the school's Saybrook College laundry room reported their clothes were soiled with urine, food waste and feces in a series of September incidents and Saybrook Master Paul Hudak said Yale Police have opened an official investigation, the Yale Daily News reported Monday. "We have asked our students not to leave their laundry unattended, the affected machines have been thoroughly disinfected, and we are actively seeking information about who the perpetrator might be," Hudak said. "That's about all we can do." The culprit or culprits were dubbed "the poopetrator" by students after Lucy Fleming's clothes were soiled by what appeared to be human excrement while in the laundry room's dryer Sept. 7. Incidents involving urine and food waste were reported the previous day. A further incident was reported Sept. 26. "The fact that this could happen at Yale is shocking to me," Fleming said. "Think about what this means for our community."  

• Somewhat Useless Information   

• When a camel uses the fat stored in its humps for energy, the humps start to get smaller and deflate. The humps grow again when the camel rehydrates.

• Camels make the most of a meal. They can rehydrate faster than any other mammal, able to drink about 30 gallons (113 liters) of water in just 13 minutes.

• Camels can run up to 40 mph for a short period of time. They can maintain 25 mph for longer making them about as fast as a horse.

• Camels are known for spitting on people. In fact, the animals are throwing up the contents of their stomach along with spit. This is a defense tactic when the animals feel threatened.

• The large beasts make a variety of moans, groans and deep, throaty bellows. One of the camel's noises was even used to voice the character Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies.

• Camels have very thick lips allowing them to eat even very salty, bitter or thorny plants. If hungry, camels can even eat leather shoes.

 Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

6-12

National Physicians Assistant Week
Emergency Nurses Week

Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week 
Customer Service Week
Fall Astronomy Week
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
World Rainforest Week
10-16

Take Your Medicine Americans Week
10-12

Great American Beer Festival 

Today Is                                                                       

·        General Pulaski Memorial Day Polish hero of the American Revolution

·        Hunter's Moon

·        International Day of The Girl

·        National Coming Out Day

·        National Face Your Fears Day

·        Southern Food Heritage Day

·        World Egg Day 

Today’s Events through History  

Daughters of American Revolution founded…1890

Great Chicago Fire is finally extinguished after 3 days, 300 killed…1871

Meriwether Lewis dies under mysterious circumstances…1809 (see below)

Thomas Edison patents his 1st invention: electric voice machine…1868

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Daryl Hall, [Hohl], rocker/songwriter (Hall & Oates-Sara Smile) is 67

Joan Cusack, actress (SNL, Addams Family Values) is 51

Luke Perry, actor (Dillon-Beverly Hill 90210) is 47

Jane Krakowski, actress (30 Rock) is 45

Ty Murray, rodeo cowboy (5-time all-around world champion) is 44

Emily Deschanel, actress (Bones) is 37

Remembered for being born today

Henry John Heinz, founded prepared-foods company (Heinz-57) [1844-1919]

Eleanor Roosevelt, [Anna], 1st lady/crusader (Nobel 1931) [1884-1962]

Roman Jakobson, linguist/Slavic scholar (Fundamentals of Language) [1896-1982]

Dottie West, country singer (Here Comes My Baby) [1921-1991]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Werner von Trapp, member of the Trapp Family Singers…2007…@91

Leonard "Chico" Marx, comedian (Marx Brothers)…heart problems…1961…@74
Tex Williams, country-western singer…cancer…1985…@68

Wayland Flowers, ventriloquist (Madame)…AIDS…1988…@48

Meriwether Lewis, (Lewis & Clark Expedition)…murder/suicide…1809…@35

Brain Teasers

1. Supple Supply 2. Deluge Deluxe 3. Payout Layout 4. Stripe Strike

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.

§    And That Is All for Now  §