10/5/13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 40/ Day: 277   

Today: H 53°…L 30°…Ave. humidity: 55%

Wind: ave:   10mph; Gusts:  22mph  

Average High: 68° Record High:  80° (1991)

Average Low: 35° Record Low:  14° (1969)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

"Meet the Press" premieres on radio…1945

1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News…1924

1st Presidential address televised from White House- Harry Truman…1947

Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War…1877

City of Anaheim was founded…1857

Foundation of Concepción, Chile…1550

French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France…1793

London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms…1986

Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC…1969

PBS becomes a network…1970

Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of PA to become Homeland Security Advisor…2001

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Well the wind blew in some much lower temperatures. Amazing how a 10° drop feels after so many nice days.

 

Who is to blame for the shutdown? According to some idiot Congressman at the WWII memorial, it is the park rangers who should be ashamed. And this guy voted against the budget. After everything he said to this park ranger hit the internet, now he says what he meant was that the Park Service should be ashamed for closing the memorial. Now Obama has cancelled his trip to several international conferences that are working on trade agreements so he can deal with the children in Congress. Lots of world leaders must be shaking their heads. Who is to blame? Every elected official…including the local ones who are not demanding that the Congress approve a budget.  

 

Getting tired of all the news on the shutdown. Seems none of the major news channels want to cover much more than the politics. I am glad to hear the stories that the cops pay status in the DC shooting. Important enough to protect our politicians, just not important enough to be paid. I still a little concerned that killing the woman was necessary, but I’ve never been in a situation like that, so shouldn’t be pointing fingers.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Below are 3 pairs of words. Find the words that fit in the middle of each pair of words to create two new words, one front-ended and one back-ended.
Example: EVER - ______ - HORN   Answer: EVER - GREEN - HORN

1. GRAND - _________ - OUT 2. QUARTER - ___________ - MIND 3. HAIR - _______________ - FIRE

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Steve Jobs TV interview about the Home Computer Revolution

• Offenbach - Can Can Music

• Comedian Rodney Dangerfield

• Bill Dana as Jose Jimenez

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias

If you have an irrational fear of... Eyes, opening one's
You're suffering from... Optophobia Greek opt ‘eyes’ 

If you have an irrational fear of... Failure
You're suffering from... Kakorrhaphiophobia Kako- bad, evil

Interesting Disney

Harper’s Index    

• Net amount contributed to Medicare by immigrants between 2002 and 2009: $115,000,000,000

• Net amount drawn out by native-born citizens over the same period: $28,000,000,000

Unusual Fact of the Day

Two of America's greatest national symbols were made overseas: The Liberty Bell was cast in England and the Statue of Liberty was crafted in France.

Joke-of-the-day

A frustrated father told a work colleague: “When I was a youngster, I was disciplined by being sent to my room without supper. But in my son’s room, he has his own color TV, computer, games console, cell phone and CD player.”

“So what do you do?”

The father replied: “I send him to my room!”

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

ANKLE INJURIES

If the patient arrives at a hospital hopping on their good foot, the bad ankle is almost certainly not broken.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

LONDON, Ontario - A cheerleading coach at the University of Western Ontario in Canada said the team's captain was ticketed for leading a street-side cheer during homecoming. Coach David Tracey said team captain Max Gow led a cheer routine in the street in a student neighborhood in London while walking to Saturday's homecoming game, the QMI Agency reported Monday. Tracey said police approached as three male cheerleaders were throwing a female cheerleader into the air. The officers told them they could not perform the routine in the street and Gow was issued a $136 ticket.

"It's homecoming. Are we not supposed to generate spirit? We're the cheerleading team for goodness sake," Tracey said.

The ticket said Gow was "causing a nuisance in the street by conducting a cheerleading performance." A police spokeswoman said she could not comment on the ticket until speaking with the issuing officer. Tracey said the street was already filled with people when the cheerleaders started performing. "If were truly blocking the street and tying up traffic and causing some kind of public disturbance then maybe I'd almost understand it, but not in this scenario," Tracey said.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Pickles have been around since ancient times, although there is some disagreement as to when exactly in history people started eating them. Some believe the first pickle was created in Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C.E. Others believe it was as early as 2030 B.C.E.

• Cleopatra ate pickles because she believed they were one of the things that helped her stay beautiful.

• Explorers like Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci used pickles to help prevent scurvy amongst the crews of their ships. 

• H.J. Heinz used pins shaped like pickles to draw customers to his booth at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. 

• The U.S. government commandeered 40% of all pickles made in the U.S. during WWII so that they could be used in rations for the soldiers.

• Several famous people throughout history are reported to have been or to be pickle fans including Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Bill Cosby, Fran Drescher, and Ed Koch.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7

Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo
3-10

No Salt Week
4-7

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
National Storytelling Weekend
4-10

World Space Week
5-6

Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend 

Today Is                                                                      

·        Balloons Around the World Day

·        Cephalopod Awareness Day

·        Inter-American Water Day

·        World Card Making Day

·        World Teachers Day

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·        Portugal: Republic Day (1910)

Today’s Events through History  

1^st documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held…1953

Hollywood Black Friday: 6month strike by set decorators is a bloody riot at Warner 

     Brothers' studios…1945

Italian troops occupy Tripoli…1911

Mass demonstrations lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan 

    Milošević-Bulldozer Revolution…2000

Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)…1864

World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill…1914

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Bill Dana, comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez) is 89

Steve Miller, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy) is 70

Daniel Baldwin, actor, producer and director is 53

Guy Pearce, actor and musician is 46

Kate Winslet, actress (Titanic) is 38

Remembered for being born today

Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin) [1703-1758]

Chester A. Arthur, 21st American President [1829-1886]

Larry Fine, [Laurence Feinberg], PA, comedian (3 Stooges) [1902-1975]

Allen Ludden, TV host (Password) [1917-1981]

Ray Kroc, fast food entrepreneur (MacDonalds) 1902-1984]

Gail Davis, actress (Annie Oakley) [1925-1997]

Jeff Conaway, actor (Bobby-Taxi, Loving) [1950-2011]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Mike Mansfield, Senator MT…2001…@98

Rodney Dangerfield, comedian…2004…@82

Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer…gout…1880…@61

Steve Jobs, co-founder/CEO of Apple… pancreatic cancer…2011…@56

Tecumseh, Shawnee-chief/English Gen…in Battle of Thames…1813…@45

Brain Teasers

1. GRAND - STAND - OUT 2. QUARTER - MASTER - MIND 3. HAIR - BRUSH - FIRE

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  §