10/24/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 43/ Day: 297   

Today: L 25°…H 66°… Ave. humidity: 47%

Wind: ave:   2mph; Gusts:  8mph  

Average Low: 28° Record Low:  9° (1975)

Average High: 60° Record High:  79° (1959)

Quote of the Day

 

Today’s Historical Highlights

"Black Thursday," start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%...1929

18th Olympic games close at Tokyo, Japan…1964

1st NY subway opens…1904

1^st woman to be ordained into the Presbyterian Church in the US…1956 

1st woman to go over Niagara Falls in a barrel (Anna Taylor)…1901

40 hour work week goes into effect (Fair Labor Standards of 1938)…1940

Camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth 

     from outer space…1946

George Washington Bridge linking NYC & NJ dedicated, opens the next day…1931

Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in Jamaica…2012

Irish Parliament adopts a constitution for an Irish Free State…1922

KOOL (now KTSP) TV channel 10 in Phoenix, AZ (CBS) begins broadcasting…1953

Mob in LA hangs 18 Chinese…1871

Nylon stockings go on sale for 1st time (Wilmington Delaware)…1939

Police arrest Beltway snipers in Washington, DC….2002

Rev Jim Bakker is sentenced to 50 years for fraud…1989

Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis…1882

US blockade of Cuba begins…1962

US forbids child labor in factories…1938

West Virginia seceded from Virginia…1861

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Beautiful day, high clouds, can’t complain about the weather.

 

The straw of that infamous camel’s back was finally broken today. CVS pharmacy in Flagstaff will no longer be my pharmacy…after almost 8 years. Stopped in to get an eye drop script filled and pick up my Lipitor script. They said it would be 35 min, so I decided to get my flu shot while waiting. Filled out the forms, waited 20 minutes and had the pharmacist finally call me to the window to be told they didn’t have the ‘patient information sheet’ and so I couldn’t get the shot. Talked to the store manager who told me to call the Pharmacy overseerer, Bert. I decided to pick up the two scripts when I get the shot next week. Called the number and was told it Bert would contact me within 2 business days. Unacceptable. The lady said that was corporate policy. About 2 hours after this the pharmacy called to say that my Lipitor would not be ready since they didn’t have it on hand. Then Bert called. He admitted that there were serious problems at that store and he didn’t know how long it would take to fix it. I told him that I would pick up my scripts, get my shot and no longer shop there. He said he was sorry. Then about 10 minutes later the pharmacy called to say I could get my flu shot as the district manager had told them how to print it out on the magic computer and that my Lipitor would be in tomorrow. We’ll see, but that will be my last trip there.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

In this teaser you must place a 3-letter word on the dashes to complete a word on the left and to begin another word with those letters on the right.
Example: e a r _ _ _ m e = e a r T H Y/ T H Y m e

1. f e a t _ _ _ o i c = ? 2. c o u r _ _ _ n d a = ? 3. d i s p _ _ _ o v e r = ? 4. k e e _ _ _ s i s t = ? 5. r u n _ _ _ i c e = ?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• What's my Line? Jackie Robinson

• Gene Roddenberry Up Close and Personal Interview

• A tribute to David Nelson

• Big Bopper - Chantilly Lace

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of... Hair disease
You're suffering from... Trichopathophobia Greek: tricho ‘hair’ Pathos ‘suffering’

If you have an irrational fear of... Heart attack
You're suffering from... Anginophobia Greek angina ‘suffocation’

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

• Number of hours Chinese workers held the head of a US company hostage in June during a labor dispute: 162

• Amout the company paid to secure his release: $300,000

Amazing Facts About The Human Body

Heat In 30 minutes, the average body gives off enough heat (combined) to bring a half gallon of water to boil.

Unusual Fact of the Day

The only U.S. sports teams whose names don't end in 'S' are: the Miami Heat, Orlando Magic, Utah Jazz, and Oklahoma City Thunder (NBA); the Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox (MLB); and the Colorado Avalanche, Tampa Bay Lightning, and Minnesota Wild (NHL).

Joke-of-the-day

Two drunks are walking along. One drunk says to the other, "What a beautiful night, look at the moon."

The other drunk stops and looks at his drunken friend, "You are wrong. That's not the moon, that's the sun."

Both started arguing for a while when they came upon another drunk walking, so they stopped him. "Sir, could you please help settle our argument? Tell us what that thing is up in the sky that's shining. Is it the moon or the sun?"

The third drunk looked at the sky and then looked at them and said, "Sorry, I don't live around here."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SOARING

When flying a sailplane on a cross-country flight, expect thermals to be five times as far apart as they are high.

Yeah, It Really Happened

 The students wanted the answers to a math problem set, but it looks like their T.A. forgot to check her work.

Earlier this week, students in a math for business class at the University of Iowa, which is quickly becoming a college of ill repute for its debauchery and general WTF-ness, received an email from their math T.A. that was supposed to contain answers to their homework.

But when they opened the attached .zip files for "the solutions for number 76 and 78," they got an eyeful of their T.A. and her male companion. The images were obtained, allegedly via students, by humor sites like Total Frat Move, which published a description of the homemade porn.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Tired of the cold weather? Take a vacation on the hottest planet in the solar system – Venus. At over 800 degrees, it is hotter than Mercury because the clouds and abundant carbon dioxide hold in most of the heat received from the sun.

• Ever notice on a map how the South American and African coasts, along the Atlantic, fit together like two pieces of a giant puzzle? That is because at one time, millions of years ago, they were one continent. Magma from deep in the Earth broke through thin places between these continents and pushed them apart. They are still slowly moving apart and the Atlantic ocean is growing wider.

• The lead in pencils, really graphite, is made of the exact same thing as diamonds. Both are pure carbon which just formed under different pressures and temperatures. Intense heat and pressure form the carbon atoms into crystals making diamond, while lesser heat and pressure form the carbon into sheets making graphite.

• Geologists have discovered there seems to be more water miles deep between the rocks of Earths mantle than in all the oceans of the world. The intense pressure of the tons of rocks above keeps the hot water from turning to steam and escaping.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week
20-26

Freedom of Speech Week
Medical Assistants Recognition Week  
National Character Counts Week
National Chemistry Week
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week 
National Hospital and Health-System Pharmacy Week  
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week 
National Massage Therapy Week
National Respiratory Care Week
National Save For Retirement Week
Pastoral Care Week
Red Ribbon Week 
Ally Week
Kids Care Week
21-25

National School Bus Safety Week 
National Nuclear Science Week
Disarmament Week
Peace, Friendship and Good Will Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week
24-11/11

World Origami Days

Today Is                                                                      

·        Food Day

·        United Nations Day

·        World Information Day Development

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·        New Zealand: Labor Day

·        Zambia: Independence Day (1964 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

1st US transcontinental telegram is sent (from SF to Wash DC)…1861

John Lennon sues US government to admit FBI is tapping his phone…1973

Levi P Morton, US ambas to France drives 1st rivet in Stat of Liberty…1881

NBC technicians accept pact, end 118 day strike…1987

Polish government legalizes independent labor union Solidarity…1980

Treaty of Westphalia ends The Thirty Year's War in the Holy Roman Empire…1648

William Lassell discovers Ariel & Umbriel, satellites of Uranus…1851

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Kevin Kline, actor (Sophie's Choice, Big Chill) is 66

B.D. Wong, actor (Law & Order) is 53

Tila Tequila, model and TV personality is 32

Remembered for being born today

David Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland [1378-1402]

James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States [1855-1912]

Big Bopper, [JP Richardson], Sabine Pass Tx, vocalist (Chantiily Lace) [1930-1959]

Moss Hart, Bronx, playwright (You Can't Take it With You, Act 1)[1904-1961]

Chicago Mainbocher, uniform designer (Red Cross, Girl Scouts, Waves) [1891-1976]

Jack Warner, [Waters], London England, actor (Christmas Carol) [1895-1981]

Bob Kane, American cartoonist (Batman) [1915-1998]

David Nelson, actor (Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet) [1936-2011]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Margaret Osborne DuPont, American tennis player…2012…@94

Rosa Parks, American civil rights activist…2005…@92

Daniel Webster, lawyer/speaker/minister of Foreign affairs…fall from horse…1852…@70

Gene Roddenberry, creator (Star Trek)…cardiac arrest…1991…@70

Bernardo O'Higgins, Chilean independence leader…heart disease…1842…@64

Richard Hofstadter, US historian…leukemia…1970…@54

Jackie Robinson, 1st black baseball player (Bkln Dodgers)…heart disease…1972…@53

Jane Seymour, 3rd wife of Henry VIII…childbirth infection…1537…@28ish

Brain Teasers

1. featHER / HERoic 2. courAGE / AGEnda 3. dispLAY / LAYover 4. keePER / PERsist 5. runOFF / OFFice

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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