Feb 15, 2013

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 07/ Day: 45   

Today: H   40°…L 8° Averages: H  45° L 19° Records: H   64°(1957)…L -15°(1949)

Wind: ave:   15mph; Gusts:  31mph  Ave. humidity:  63%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st Dracula movie released—1931

1st mustard manufactured in America advertised, Philadelphia—1768

1st Teddy Bear introduced in America, made by Morris & Rose Michtom—1903

1st US printed ballots authorized, Pennsylvania—1799

After 1,200 years Britain abandons 12-shilling system for decimal—1971

Boy Scouts of America is founded—1910

Estimated eleven million people around the world take to the streets to 

     protest against the looming war with Iraq—2003

Leon Spinks beats Muhammad Ali in 15 rounds—1978

Maple Leaf becomes official flag of Canada—1965

Sonja Henie, Norway, wins 3rd consecutive Olympic gold—1936

St. Louis, Missouri founded as a French trading post—1764

USS Maine sinks in Havana harbor, cause unknown-258 sailors die—1898

YouTube, is launched in the United States—2005

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A nice day in Flag.

 

Mary and I had lunch today…at the always great Pita Jungle. Their Gyros are the best. Mary is expecting a closing on her home in Phoenix early next week. She and Mike are very excited about it. Seems to have passed all the inspections with flying colors and the elderly couple selling it have taken excellent care of it. Two of the bedrooms open to the pool. Sounds and looks like a great place. Mike still has a few more years of working, so they won’t be moving down there full time for quite a while. We also had an interesting discussion on the Pope’s resignation. Mary was raised Catholic but no longer attends.

 

I’m looking forward to a quiet weekend here in Flagstaff, but am sure some Rez people will be stopping by as the workers have a long weekend. It seems to be warming up here as we await our next snowstorm. Nice to be able to be outside…without a jacket, gloves, and a snow shovel.

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.

We need to waterproof our boots to make sure we don't get wet.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today:

• Dracula Movie CLIP

• A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes

• ETHEL MERMAN "There's No Business Like Show Business"

Ok, then?

Read This Carefully!!

Starvation Can Lead to Health Issues

Picture of the Day: Uganda

Harper’s Index:         

Minimum chance that a Bangladeshi woman’s first experience with sex is rape: 1 in 4

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Bugs Bunny was the second cartoon character to receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; the first was Mickey Mouse.

Joke-of-the-day:

A drunken man walked up to a parking meter and puts in some change.
The meter goes up to sixty and he says, "Hey, I lost 100 pounds!"  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

CALCULATE THE COST OF POWERING A COMPUTE

If you know the amount of heat a box puts out, in BTU, you can determine the cost of the electricity to power and cool it. BTU / 2510 * $/kWhr * hours/month = cost/month For example, if electricity costs 10¢ per kWhr, and there are on average 730 hours in a month, then each 1000 BTU server costs $29 per month in cooling and electricity. If you don't know the BTU, multiply the wattage times x 3.5 to obtain the BTU.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

STAMFORD, Conn. - A man's ear lobe was bitten off and swallowed by his cousin during a brawl over loud music in Stamford, Conn., police said. Emilio Mendoza, 27, was charged with first-degree assault, interfering with police, forgery and disorderly conduct. After he was released from a hospital, the injured man Ruiz Clemente-Perez, 39, was charged with third-degree assault, police records said. Police were called to the apartment of Mendoza and Clemente-Perez early Monday morning. Clemente-Perez told police his cousin, Mendoza, began playing loud music, which started a fight. "It was a pretty bloody scene," said police Lt. Diedrich Hohn. Mendoza bit the left ear of Clemente-Perez and tore off the ear lobe, Holm said. Sgt. Richard Barbagallo said Mendoza, who was intoxicated at the time, told him he swallowed the ear lobe. Mendoza also showed the police fake identification when he was taken to police headquarters Monday, the Stamford Advocate reported. Mendoza is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

 Junk food is typically defined as foods with little nutritional value that are high in calories, fat, sugar, salt, or caffeine, and it is a staple in the American diet. Healthy or not, we love our junk food!

Today's Random Fact:

• Doughnuts most likely originated in Germany and were brought to New York by Dutch settlers who called them olykoeks (oily cakes). The hole in the center was developed by the Pennsylvania Dutch perhaps because the shape provided easier dunking in coffee or made it easier to fry the donuts more thoroughly.

• Dunkin Donuts sells 6.4 million donuts per day (2.3 billion per year).

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

10-16
Celebration of Love Week
Children of Alcoholics Week
Jell-O Week
Love a Mench Week
National Pancake Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week
International Flirting Week
National Green Week

13-19
World Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Awareness Week

14-21
National Condom Week
National Nestbox Week
NCCDP Alzheimer's & Dementia Staff Education Week

15-17
Great Backyard Bird Count

15-24
National Date (fruit) Week
National Entrepreneurship Week
National FFA Week
Brotherhood / Sisterhood Week
Build A Better Trade Show Image Week
National Engineers Week
National Justice for Animals Week

Today Is                                                                      

Lupercalia: very ancient, pre-Roman festival to avert evil spirits and purify the city

National Gum Drop Day

National Hippo Day

Remember The Maine Day

Susan B. Anthony Day

~Serbia: National Day (1804 against Ottoman)

Today’s Events through History  

12th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria—1976

1st adhesive postage stamps in US (private delivery company), NYC—1842

2nd intercontinental railroad starts . It also goes through Indian lands—1870

Charges of Treason against Jefferson Davis are dropped—1869

George Burns & Gracie Allen debuted as regulars on "Guy Lombardo Show"—1932

Ho-tse Shen-hui, Zen teacher disputes founder of Northern Ch'an line—732

Marconi begins regular broadcasting transmissions—1922

Senate passes a resolution asking President Jackson if he is going to 

     live up to the Indian Trade and Intercourse Act passed on March 30, 1802—1831

Walt Disney's "Cinderella" released—1950

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 80’s

Frank Dunlop, director (Edinburgh International Festival) is 86

In their 60’s

Melissa Manchester, Bronx NY, vocalist (Don't Cry Out Loud) is 62

Jane Seymour, actress (Dr Quinn)  is 62

Remembered for being born today

Pedro Menendez de Aviles, explorer (found St Augustine Florida) (1519-1574)

Susan Brownell Anthony, Adams Mass, woman's suffragette (1820-1906)

Ian Ballantine, publisher (Ballantine Books) (1916-1995)

Chris Farley, actor (SNL, Wayne's World, Coneheads) (1964-1997)

Galileo Galilei, Pisa Italy, astronomer/physicist (1564-1642)

Harvey Korman, Chicago, actor (Carol Burnett Show, Blazing Saddles) (1927-2008)

Cesar Romero, NYC, actor (Joker-Batman, Ocean's 11, Thin Man) (1907-1994)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Nat King Cole, singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa)—lung cancer—1965—at 49

Ethel Merman, singer/actress (Kid Million)—in her sleep—1984—at 76

Howard K. Smith, American journalist—2002—at 87

Answer: Hidden Word

We need to waterprooF OUR boots to make sure we don't get wet.

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  §