Feb 9, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 06/ Day: 40 

Today: H   38°…L 27° Averages: H  44° L 18° Records: H   65°(1996)…L -17°(1933)

Wind: ave:   26mph; Gusts:  50mph  Ave. humidity:  65%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Adventures of Superman" TV series premieres in syndication—1953

1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers) —1964

1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium) —1909

1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family—1871

1st recorded race meet in England—1540

American Indian Society organizes—1822

Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US—1942

FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry—1943

Halley's Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun) —1986

Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii—1922

US Army establishes US National Weather Service—1870

US federations of trade unions merge into AFL/CIO—1955

Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts—1895

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Wind blowing, the feels like temp is about 15° below the actual temp. Trying real hard to snow. Alas, nothing but strong winds. Of course the weekend is just starting, so this is common for Flag. Downtown street is blocked for the new annual snow festival. The town is trying to build up our ‘ski image’. Last year was the first year, and business in the area didn’t report any great increase in buying, but somehow were convinced that this year would be different. Hotels may fill up with snow boarders, but they aren’t known for spending lots of money on tourist stuff. Seems that last year, the only restaurants that enjoyed the benefits were the fast food places.

 

Cheryl called and is healing nicely, but has a black eye. She still plans on returning in a couple of weeks. She says her eye is seeing better already and the doctor says she is making good progress. Her appointment next week will let her know how much longer she will have to stay in CA.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Hidden Word

Hidden in each of the sentences below are the numbers 1 to 10 in words.

It's always worth looking after your friends, even if they've upset you.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• Bill Haley and the Comets - Rock Around The Clock

• CHIQUITA BANANA SONG (1940s)

• Who Put The Bomp - Barry Mann

 Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

In the front yard of a Funeral Home:

"Drive carefully. We'll wait."

Picture of the Day: Uganda

 Cape Buffalo cooling off in Nile.

Harper’s Index:         

• Date on which Harry Reid said Romney ‘couldn’t be confirmed as a dog catcher’ if he didn’t release more tax returns: 7/12/12

• Number of years of his own tax returns Reid had made public: 0

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The Flintstones was sponsored by a cigarette company during the show's first two seasons. The show was intended for adults, not kids, so few complained about the commercials that depicted the stone-age characters puffing away on Winstons.

Joke-of-the-day:

An executive was interviewing a young woman for a position in his company. He wanted to learn something about her personality, so he asked, "if you could have a conversation with anyone, living or dead, who would it be?"

She quickly responded, "The living one."

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SCULPTING WITH PAPER

You can sculpt a full-size likeness of two five-year-old kids from one copy of the Sunday New York Times, if you save the Book Review for yourself.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

During the "game"  of tug-of-war two teenagers had several of their fingers ripped off!

The boy and girl, both under age 18, had stable vital signs after undergoing hours of surgery. The teens lost four fingers each from their right hand, and the girl also lost the thumb on her left hand.

The rope was wrapped around the students' hands, and it snapped, amputating their fingers. After the incident officials said they will review all planned Spirit Week activities "that could even possibly have a risk of going wrong."

"I've never heard of anything like this happening," School District Superintendent Nick J. Salerno said. "It's unbelievable to me, it's shocking."

But things like this have happened before. In 2007, two students at a high school in Parker, Colo., had their right hands partially severed during a tug-of-war at a pep rally, and in 2008, an 8-year-old girl nearly lost four fingers the same way when her hand got tangled in a rope in Minnesota.

Meanwhile, in Miami woman was jailed on contempt charges after giving a judge "the finger" during a drug possession hearing, but at least she got to take her finger to jail with her.

Somewhat Useless Information 

• The word "blood" dates to the oldest English, circa 1000 AD. The word is derived from Middle English, which is derived from the Old English word blôd, which is akin to the Old High German word bluot, meaning blood. 

• In classical Greek medicine, blood was associated with air, with Springtime, and with a merry and gluttonous (sanguine) personality. 

• In Hippocratic medicine, blood was considered to be one of the four humors, the others being phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile.

• The term blood is used in genealogical circles to refer to one's ancestry, origins, and ethnic background as in the word bloodline. Other terms where blood is used in a family history sense are blue-blood, royal blood, mixed-blood and blood relative.

• Bloodletting and leeching were common unvalidated interventions used until the 19th century, as many diseases were incorrectly thought to be due to an excess of blood, according to Hippocratic medicine.

• Mythic references to blood can sometimes be connected to the life-giving nature of blood, seen in such events as childbirth, as contrasted with the blood of injury or death.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

3-9
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

4-8
Intimate Apparel Week
International Networking Week
International Friendship Week
National School Counseling Week

7-14
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week
Risk Awareness Week
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week

Today Is                                                                      

National Stop Bullying Day

Read in the Bathtub Day

Toothache Day

Today’s Events through History  

9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria—1964

English Parliament declares Mass colony is in rebellion—1775

English reconquer NY from Netherlands—1674

Fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane—1863

House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president—1925

Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire shortly 

     followed by a large bomb in London's Canary Wharf—1996

Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA—1861

Pres Cleveland declares a state of emergency in Seattle because of 

     anti-Chinese violence—1886

Sen Joseph McCarthy charges State Dept infested with 205 communists—1950

Spaniards are living in the Cakchiquel (Kaqchikel) Maya town of Iximche’ in modern Guatemala. A few decide to desert. They set a large fire as a diversion—1526

Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools—1926

United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established as a 

     Cabinet-level agency—1889

USS Greeneville submarine accidentally strikes and sinks the Ehime-Maru, 

     a Japanese training vessel operated by the Uwajima Fishery High School—2001

World's largest airplane, Boeing 747, makes 1st commercial flight—1969

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news anchor is 85

In their 70’s

Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry) is 71

Barry Mann, R&B singer (Who Put the Bomp in the Bomp Bomp Bomp) is 74

Joe Pesci, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas) is 70

In their 60’s

Mia Farrow, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo) is 68

Judith Light, (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live) is 64

In their 50’s

Charles Shaughnessy, London, actor (Shane-Days of our Lives, Nanny) is 58

Travis Tritt, Marietta Ga, country vocalist (Country Club) is 50

Remembered for being born today

William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th Pres (1773-1841)

Carmen Miranda, Brazil, vocalist/actress (Copacabana, Date With Judy) (1909-1955)

Ernest Tubb, Tx, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You) (1914-1984)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Yuri Andropov, Gen Sec of Soviet Communist Party (1982-84)—renal failure—1984—at 69

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment)—hemmorage—1857—at 59

Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock)—heart attack—1981—at 55

Jean François de Saint-Lambert, French poet—1803—at 86

Dionysios Solomos, Greek poet of the Greek national anthem—apoplexy—1857—at 58

Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama)—1966—at 80

David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Dallas)—1995—at 81

Max Yasgur, owner Woodstock-festival farmland—heart attack—1973—at 53

Answer: Hidden Word

It's always worth looking after your friendS, EVEN if they've upset you.

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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