11/9/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 45/ Day: 313   

Today: L 22°…H 60°… Ave. humidity: 35%

Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  21mph  

Average Low: 24° Record Low:  3° (1898)

Average High: 53° Record High:  71° (1973)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes…1904

1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama…1930

1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra…1858

Atlantic Monthly magazine 1st published…1857

Giant Panda discovered, China…1927

Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize…1944

Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse are ordered to go to the reservation…1875

Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Moslems/sentenced to slavery…694

Spanish troops lands in Ireland…1580

The Great Boston Fire of 1872, 1,000 buildings destroyed…1872

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

Good day…blue sky, warmish, not too windy. Couldn’t ask for more on a fall day. 

I had lunch with Cheryl this afternoon. Mary is already in Phoenix for the weekend. Cheryl had a good week in Williams, enjoying the peace and quiet of a really small town. Found out I have choices about my glasses…after the surgery…wear them and see things blurry, take out the right lens and have no lens, pay $50 and get a blank lens, or don’t wear glasses and see things blurry.  The $50 is out, since even that lens would only work on the right side, so when they do the left eye, no help. I look dorky enough without walking around with only one lens. Besides, every day is a little better.

 

I ran into an old colleague/friend today. Nice to see him. He was one of the guys who I figured would never retire, but he finally did about three years ago and is now very happy. He mentioned how fast time flies when you are retired. New projects, new things to do, always busy. Nice for him. Too bad he didn’t believe me when I told him it was that way when I first retired.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

Compound words are pairings of existing words; e.g. brainstorm. Each word affects the overall meaning.
Some word pairs can be compounded in two ways. Use the given clues to find these "compound couples".
** EXAMPLE **
short range firearm & the blast from a firearm [7] = shotgun & gunshot
** CLUES **

1. pass & company merger [8] 2. escape & the start of a war [8] 3. delay & maintain [6] 4. shelf set & detective's diary [8]

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Ed Wynn Show W/ 3 Stooges

• Art Carney - Song of the Sewer 1955

• IN MEMORY OF MARY TRAVERS

• One of Carl Sagan's most pertinent messages for humanity

• Creedence (Tom Fogerty) - Born On The Bayou

Very Strange Laws…South Dakota

• No horses are allowed into Fountain Inn unless they are wearing pants.

• It is illegal to lie down and fall asleep in a cheese factory.

• Movies that show police officers being struck, beaten, or treated in an offensive manner are forbidden.

• If there are more than 5 Native Americans on your property you may shoot them.

• Spearfish
--If three or more Indians are walking down the street together, they can be considered a war party and fired upon.

OK Then…

Harper’s Index 

• Percentage of US lesbians, gays and bisexuals who are out to their mothers: 56

• To their fathers: 39

Unusual Fact of the Day

An estimated 15% to 20% of people who receive gift cards never redeem them.

Joke-of-the-day

What do cannibals call athletes? Fast food!  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

BRITISH THERMAL UNITS

One BTU is roughly equal to the amount of heat energy given off by burning a wooden kitchen match.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

ESTANCIA, N.M. - A lawyer for a former assistant librarian in New Mexico said his client lost her job for reporting two city workers found having sex in the children's section. Joseph CampBell, attorney for former Estancia Library employee Jamie Kurz, said his client showed up for work in August and discovered two city employees -- the town's head librarian and a maintenance worker -- "engaged in sexual intercourse on the floor in the children's section," KRQE-TV, Albuquerque, reported Monday.

The workers told Kurz to be quiet, but she reported the incident to the city library director and Estancia Mayor Sylvia Chavez, CampBell said. "The mayor subsequently talked to Jamie about it, told her that it wouldn't have any effect on her job," CampBell said. However, Kurz went on leave when the head librarian returned to work, claiming a hostile work environment, and was soon fired. An Oct. 10 letter from Chavez to Kurz said she was being fired for failing to return her key to the library while on leave. "Your refusal to turn over town property upon request and as required to ensure uninterrupted library services shows a lack of cooperation and willingness to work with supervisors,"

Chavez wrote. "This behavior constitutes insubordination and jeopardizes the Town's ability to serve its citizens." However, CampBell said Kurz believes her firing was tied to her refusal to keep quiet about the August incident. CampBell said he plans to file a claim with the town and a possible whistle-blower lawsuit could follow.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• If you live an average life span, you'll spend a total of about six months on the toilet.

• There are 34 bathrooms in the White House.

• The average toilet will last about 50 years before it has to be replaced.

• Alaska has more outhouses than any other state.

• The first American to have plumbing installed in his house was Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, in 1840.

• Toilet Rock, a natural rock formation shaped like a flush toilet, is in City of Rocks, New Mexico.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7: National Fig Week / National Patient Accessibility Week / World Communication Week
3-9:  Health Information and Technology Week / International Fraud Awareness Week / National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week / National Nurse Practioner's Week / National Radiologic Technology Week / Give Wildlife A Brake! Week / Intimate Apparel Week
7-13: Dear Santa Letter Week / Pursuit of Happiness Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        Kristallnacht: Night of Broken Glass: 1938: Nazi Germany

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·        Cambodia: Independence Day (1953 from France)

Today’s Events through History  

1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia…1821

East Berlin opens its borders…1989

UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa…1976

Vietnam Veterans Memorial ("3 Servicemen") completed…1984

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

1929 - Imre Kertész, Budapest, concentration camp survivor, writer, Nobel laureate 

             (2002) is 84

1951 - Lou Ferrigno, Brooklyn, body builder/actor (Incredible Hulk) is 62

Nick Lachey, singer, songwriter, actor is 40

Remembered for being born today

Elijah P Lovejoy, newspaper publisher/abolitionist [1802-1837]

[Albert] Edward VII, king of England [1841-1910]

Dorothy Dandridge, actress/singer/dancer (Porgy & Bess) [1922-1965]

Ed Wynn, [Isaiah Edwin Leopold], comedian (Ed Wynn Show) [1886-1966]

Tom Fogerty, rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival) [1941-1990]

Spiro Theodore Agnew, (R) 39th VP (1968-75), resigns on tax evasion charges [1918-1996]

Carl Sagan, Bkln, astronomer/author/professor (Cosmos, Broca's Brain) [1934-1996]

Hedy Lamarr, actress (Ecstacy, Samson & Delilah) [1913-2000]

Mary Travers, folk singer (Peter Paul & Mary) [1936-2009]

Sargent Shriver, MD, Dem VP candidate (1972)/directed Peace Corp [1915-2011]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Israel Bak, created 1st Hebrew printing press, dies…1874

Art Carney, actor (Honeymooners)…2003…@85

Charles de Gaulle, President of France (1958-69)…ruptured blood vessel…1970…@79

Henry Cabot Lodge, Mass. Senator…stroke…1924…@74

Yves Montand, actor (Idol, Grand Prix)…heart attack…1991…@70

Ed Bradley, journalist (60 Minutes)…leukemia…2006…@65

Edwin Drake, Father of the oil industry, drilled the US first oil well…1881…@61

Dylan Thomas, author-poet (Adv in skin trade)… pneumonia…1953…@39

Brain Teasers

1. overtake & takeover 2. breakout & outbreak 3. holdup & uphold 4. casebook & bookcase

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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