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Flagstaff Almanac: Week: 06/ Day: 36
Today: H 49°…L 21°
Averages: H 43° L 18° Records: H 64°(1963)…L -16°(1955)
Wind: ave: 8mph; Gusts: 19mph Ave. humidity: 69%
Quote of the Day:
Today’s Historical Highlights:
"Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour"
premieres on CBS—1967
1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal
gas for street lights) —1817
1st US livestock branding law passed, by
Connecticut—1644
Apollo 14, 3rd US manned Moon expedition,
lands near Fra Mauro Alan
Shepard & Edward Mitchell (Apollo 14) walk on
Moon for 4 hrs—1971
Arizona House of Reps vote to impeach
Republican Gov Evan Mecham—1988
Comic strip "Hagar The Horrible"
debuted—1973
DEA announces seizure of 3,192 tons of
marijuana, 495 people—1982
Dick Button becomes 1st US figure skating
Olympic champion—1948
Kareem Abdul-Jabar becomes 1st NBA player to
score 38,000 points—1989
Klaus Barbie, former Nazi Gestapo official, brought
to trial—1983
Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster)
patented by Ed Prescot—1901
National Wildlife Federation forms—1936
Patty Hearst kidnapped—1974
Phoenix, Az incorporates—1881
United States and the United Kingdom sign
treaty for Panama Canal—1900
US airlines begin mandatory inspection of
passengers & baggage—1972
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How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
Free Rambling Thoughts:
What a great Super Bowl. I became a Raven supporter when they entered the playoffs this year. While in Uganda, many of my fellow travelers were watching the live coverage of the game on their iPads. It was on just before breakfast for us. I really expected the Broncos to pull that game off and keep fighting to the Super Bowl. But even with the 30 minute blackout in the stadium, it was a great game. A few rez friends dropped by, explaining why there was no blog yesterday. The blackout reminded me of a Tonalea basketball game years ago. We were having an adult tournament one weekend, when there was a power surge. Not unusual at the small isolated school. We had the same kind of lights. While the emergency lights came right on, it took about 30 minutes to get the regular lights back on. The tourney was already running late after a couple of long OT games so the lights going out at 10p meant we were there till almost 1a. To be honest, my first thought at the SB blackout was the facility crew that had to deal with the outage.I spent a quite Monday, did a little cleaning up, and didn’t even take a nap. I was us until past midnight last night and slept through to 6:30 this morning…guess my body has finally accepted Flag time again.Yesterday afternoon about 3p a police car came roaring into our complex with lights and sirens…never a good sign. Seconds later there were four cop cars and a fire engine. Minutes later a second fire truck. One of the older units had a fire. It was a little frightening even though my unit was in no danger. No one was injured but lots of damage. FFD did a great job and only one unit was damaged. Those guys really know their business. The fire department was there until almost 9:30 last night…good job first responders. About an hour into the ordeal, I called the maintenance guy for the complex. He said that they weren’t responsible any of the older units, but thanked me for calling.
Game
Center: (answers at the end of post)
Hidden Word
Find a hidden word in the sentence
Today it feels like spring again.
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:
Ok, then?
Read This Carefully!!
Outside a Muffler Shop:
"No appointment necessary. We hear you coming."
Picture of the Day: Uganda
At the Equator
Harper’s Index:
Amount the debt-ceiling standoff cost the federal government in 2011: $1,300,000,000
Unusual Fact of the Day:
- The first seedless grapes were kind of an accident. Thousands of years ago in the Middle East, a random genetic mutation caused a group of grapes to spontaneously abort their own seeds before the seeds could develop hard casings. The result: seedless produce. To reproduce the fruit, a sly farmer simply cloned the vine (with no seeds, there’s nothing to plant)—meaning that all seedless grapes today are direct descendants of that one mutated grape vine.
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Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
GETTING WORK DONE
People do best when they're working at 80 percent of their capacity. At 50 percent, they get bored. At 100 percent, stress gets them.
Yeah, It Really Happened
EASTHAMPTON, Mass. - A Massachusetts appeals court upheld a judge's order for a 12-year-old tagger to get a job so he can pay $1,000 restitution to his victim. The boy, who was 11 at the time of the crime, had been ordered to pay restitution to his Easthampton neighbors in exchange for having charges of juvenile delinquency put on hold for one year, and Juvenile Court Judge James Collins extended the probation for four years and ordered the youth -- identified under the pseudonym "Avram" in court papers -- to get a job when he failed to pay the damages within the allotted year, the Boston Globe reported Thursday. Attorney Craig Bartolomei filed an appeal on behalf of the boy, but the ruling was upheld Wednesday by the Massachusetts Appeals Court. "The state itself limits what they [12-year-olds] can do," Bartolomei said. "They can be actors, with a permit. They can work a farm, and they can basically deliver newspapers. But kids don't deliver newspapers anymore." However, the court offered some employment suggestions for Avram. The boy can "earn money by obtaining a paper route, mowing lawns, raking leaves, shoveling snow, baby-sitting, delivering groceries or by recycling items upon which a deposit had been paid," Judge William Meade wrote in the three-judge panel's decision.
Somewhat Useless Information
- The initial top tax bracket was only 7 percent, and it didn't kick in until income reached a whopping $11.6 million in 2013 dollars. Only 358,000 people had to fill out 1040 forms at first, because the standard family deduction was an adjusted $93,000.
- Over the past hundred years, the tax code has swelled from 400 pages to almost 74,000, and the top rate is now 39.6 percent. In its first year the income tax brought in a paltry $16.6 billion, adjusted for the past century of inflation. Today that revenue equals $2.7 trillion.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
1-7
Solo Diners Eat
Out Weekend
Women's Heart Week
Women's Heart Week
3-9
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
Boy Scout Anniversary Week
Children's Authors & Illustrators Week
Dump Your
Significant Jerk Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Publicity for Profit Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
International Coaching Week
Just Say No to PowerPoint Week
Publicity for Profit Week
4-8
Intimate Apparel Week
International Networking Week
International Friendship Week
National School Counseling Week
Intimate Apparel Week
International Networking Week
International Friendship Week
National School Counseling Week
Today Is
African American
Coaches Day
National Pancake
Day (IHOP)
Nutella Day
Weatherman's
[Weatherperson's] Day
Western Monarch
Day World
Today’s Events through History
1st motion picture shown to a theater
audience, Philadelphia—1870
7th Winter Olympic games close at Cortina
d'Ampezzo, Italy—1956
Adding machine employing depressible keys
patented—1850
Articles of Confederation ratified by 1st
state, South Carolina—1778
Beggars assault Oisterwijk Neth, drive nuns
out—1572
Canadians, and Indians will attack the
southern Maine town of York. Almost
50 settlers will be killed, and, at least,
another 70 will become captives.
Some sources list the date of this battle as
January 25th—1692
Enrico Caruso recorded "O Solo Mio"
for the Victor Talking Machine Co—1916
French President de Gaulle calls for Algeria's
independence—1962
Group of early Japanese Christians are killed
by the new government of Japan
for being seen as a threat to Japanese society—1597
Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st
detachable shirt collar—1825
Major tornado outbreak across the Southern
United States leaves at least 58 dead—2008
Methodists John & Charles Wesley arrive in
Savannah, Georgia—1736
Orono was a PENOBSCOT Chief. During his life
he was converted to catholicism,
he fought in the French and Indian wars
against the British settlements in New
England, he fought on the American side
during the Revolutionary War, and
he is believed to have been 108 years old
when he died—1802
Pierpont Morgan forms US Steel Corp—1901
Quarterback Eli Manning wins his second
Superbowl Most Valuable Player Award—2012
Reader's Digest magazine 1st published—1922
Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives
in Boston from England—1631
US troops under General Douglas MacArthur
enter Manila—1945
Today’s Birthdays
In their 90’s
Bernard Kalb, spokesman (State Dept)/actor
(Dave) is 92
In their 70’s
Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HRs,
1957 NL MVP) is 79
Craig Morton, Flint Mich, NFL quarterback
(Dallas, Denver) is 70
Roger Staubach, NFL quarterback (Dallas
Cowboys) is 71
In their 60’s
Barbara Hershey, actress (Black
Swan) is 65
In their 50’s
Tim Meadows, actor (SNL) is 52
Remembered for being born today
Stephen J Cannell, producer (Rockford Files)
(1941-2010)
Red Buttons, [Aaron Chwatt], Bronx NYC,
comedian/actor (Sayonara) (1919-2002)
Dwight Lyman Moody, US, evangelist (Student
Volunteer Movement) (1837-1899)
Belle Starr [Myra Belle Shirley], US female
outlaw (wild west) (1848-1889)
Adlai E Stevenson II, (Gov-D-Ill), pres
candidate (D) (1900-1965)
Norton Simon, business executive (Simon &
Schuster) (1907-1993)
Today’s Historical Obits
William Cullen, Scottish physician and chemist—1790—at
79
Thomas Carlyle, historian/essayist—1881—at 85
Ella Grasso, Governor of Connecticut—ovarian
cancer—1981—at 61
Dean Jagger, US actor (Mr Novak, Rawhide,
Oscar)—1991—at 87
Marianne Moore, US poetess (Pulitzer 1951)—1972—at
84
Robert E Park, sociologist (human ecology,
marginal man)—1944—at 79
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Indian guru, founder of
Transcendental Meditation—2008—at 90
Answer: Hidden Countries
Today it fEELS like spring again.
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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