6-18-13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 25/ Day: 168   Today: H 80°…L 39°

Wind: ave:   15mph; Gusts:  30mph  Ave. humidity:  35%

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Ave low	Ave high	Record low	Record high
42°	80°	24° (1995)	92° (1940)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

AIDS epidemic is formally recognized by medical professionals in San Francisco…1891

American Library Association adopts Library Bill of Rights…1948

Irish parliament selects Henry VIII as king of Ireland…1541

Samuel Wallis, English sea captain, sights Tahiti considered the 1st European to 

     reach the island…1767

Supreme Court bans racial discrimination in sale & rental of housing…1968

Susan B Anthony fined $100 for voting for President…1873

War of 1812 begins as US declares war against Britain…1812

William Penn founds Philadelphia, US…1682

Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember 

    that "this was their finest hour"…1940

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

A new week starts off with more questions than answers.  I got a call from my former financial advisor. We met at 10am at her house. Her story is that her assistant had bought the office last year, but couldn’t be the manager so she stayed on as an employee. She had met with a banker in South Carolina in March and it was suggested she refinance her Flagstaff house for a lower rate. She decided to apply but was rejected. After several days of trying to figure out why, the bank discovered she had three credit card accounts she hadn’t listed on her form. The minimum was being paid every month, but the total owed was close to $50,000. Turns out for the past few years the assistant had opened these cards in her boss’ name and was just paying the minimum out of the business account. Further digging found that over $100K in local company money had never been deposited correctly. So the charges are embezzlement and identity theft. My former advisor was ‘retired’ because she was not running her office correctly. Lawyer’s fees are high, the sale of the business has been stopped, since the assistant stopped paying the monthly amount agreed upon. Only time will tell how this all works out for my former advisor, but again, my investments are not in danger.

 

The Supreme Court ruled on a crazy Arizona law that required proof of citizenship to register to vote. The law made it much harder for citizens to register to vote in AZ. Glad to see it gone. Of course many are not…those crazy people who still can’t believe that Real Americans would have ever elected a Black President. There was no proof that AZ had ever had a problem with voter fraud. The crazy ones just seem to believe that with all the brown people in our state, it will happen very soon.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

When you behead a word, you remove the first letter and still have a valid word. You will be given clues for the two words, longer word first.
Example: Begin -> Sour, acidic Answer: The words are Start and Tart.

1. Time past -> Leave 2. Street -> Event location 3. Ends "Our Father" -> Fathers 4. Shared an opinion -> Excessive desire for something 5. Misuses; harms -> Multi-passenger vehicles 6. Pursue lofty goal -> Pointed tower top 7. Sum total -> Climb on 8. Stay away from -> A gap; empty

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Richard Boone--What's My Line

• Paul McCartney talks about the Beatles and John Lennon

• Winston churchill "finest hour"

Hmmmm

Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of checks.

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

Number of the 400 wealthiest Americans who count as small business owners under House Republicans’ definitions: 237

Picture of the Day: Iran

Unusual Fact of the Day

Hallmark sells a line of "encouragement" cards you can send to people who've lost their job.

Joke-of-the-day

A fellow bought a new Mercedes and was out on the interstate for a nice evening drive. The top was down, the breeze was blowing through what was left of his hair and he decided to open her up. As the needle jumped up to 80 mph, he suddenly saw flashing red and blue lights behind him.

"There's no way they can catch a Mercedes," he thought to himself and opened her up further. The needle hit 90, 100.... Then the reality of the situation hit him.

"What am I doing?" he thought and pulled over. The cop came up to him, took his license without a word and examined it and the car.

"It's been a long day, this is the end of my shift and it's Friday the 13th. I don't feel like more paperwork, so if you can give me an excuse for your driving that I haven't heard before, you can go."

The guy thinks for a second and says, "Last week my wife ran off with a cop. I was afraid you were trying to give her back!"

"Have a nice weekend," said the officer.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

 TAKING FILM PHOTOGRAPHS AT NIGHT

 To compensate for reciprocity failure in night-time photography, open the aperture one additional f-stop if exposure time is more than 1 second, 2 f-stops if the exposure is over 10 seconds, and 3 f-stops if the exposure is more than 100 seconds.   

Yeah, It Really Happened

Whatever problem this guy had it doesn't seem like this procedure would be worth it, but for whatever reason this Delaware man had a penile surgery performed which involved a three-piece inflatable implant, consisting of inflatable cylinders inside the shaft of the penis, a fluid reservoir under the abdominal wall and a pump inside the scrotum.

Sounds comfy, doesn't it?

Unfortunately, something was wrong after he had the surgery. He said his scrotum swelled to the size of a volleyball, and he suffered an erection that lasted about eight months.

The patient and his wife are seeking unspecified damages from the urologist and his medical group.

He said retrieving the morning newspaper became a problem. Riding his motorcycle was, too. "I could hardly dance, with an erection poking my partner," he told jurors when he took the witness stand. The procedure caused him to retreat from much of life, and he took to wearing baggy sweat pants and a long shirt to hide his condition.

He has since gotten a replacement prosthesis from another doctor. While this device works, he said, the scar tissue from the first surgery left his member about 50 percent smaller, and he does not experience the same level of sensation.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Bayer was advertising cough medicine containing heroin in 1898.

• Britain's first escalator was installed in Harrods in 1878.

• BVD stands for the organizers of the company: Bradley, Voorhies, and Day.

• Carbonated soda water was invented in 1767 by Joseph Priestley, the discoverer of oxygen.

• Cheerios cereal was originally called Cheerioats.

• Chewing gum was patented in 1869 by William Semple.

• Coca-Cola was so named back in 1885 for its two 'medicinal' ingredients: extract of coca leaves and kola nuts. As for how much cocaine was originally in the formulation, it's hard to know.

• Cocaine was sold to cure sore throat, neuralgia, nervousness, headache, colds and sleeplessness in the 1880s.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

13-20

Nursing Assistants Week
16-22

Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week
Universal Father's Week

Today Is                                                                      

·        International Sushi Day

·        International Panic Day

·        World Juggling Day

^^

·        Egypt: Evacuation Day (Celebrates final withdrawal of British forces 1956)

Today’s Events through History  

1st amusement pier opens in Atlantic City, NJ…1898

Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington & Blucher…1815

Macadamia nuts 1st planted in Hawaii…1892

NCAA makes urine testing mandatory for participants…1973

Swedish Vikings attack Constantinople…860

Vaccine to prevent hoof & mouth disease announced…1981

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Paul McCartney, Liverpool, English rocker; pop star (Beatles) is 71

In their 60’s

Carol Kane, Cleveland Ohio, actress (Dog Day Afternoon, Simka-Taxi) is 61

In their 30’s

Blake Shelton, Country Singer is 37

Remembered for being born today

Red Adair, oilman (fought oil fires in Kuwait) [1915-2004]

Richard Boone, actor [Have Gun Will Travel; Hec Ramsey] [1917-1981]  

Roger Ebert, film critic (Siskel & Ebert at the Movies) [1942-2013]

Kay Kyser, orchestra leader (Kay Kyser's Kollege) [1905-1985]

William Lassell, discoverer (satellites of Uranus & Neptune) [1799-1880]

Jeanette MacDonald, actress and singer (When I'm Calling You), [1903-1965]

George Mallory, England, mountain climber ("because it is there") [1886-1924]

E.G. Marshall, American actor [1914-1998]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Ethel Barrymore, [Blythe], actress (None but the lonely)… cardiovascular disease

     …1959…at 79

John Cheever, Pulitzer prize winning author…cancer…1982…at 70

Nancy Marchand, actress [Lou Grant]…cancer…2000…at 71

John Sutter, US colonist (gold discovered on his land)…1880…at 77

Answer: Brain Teasers

1. Ago -> Go 2. Avenue -> Venue 3. Amen -> Men 4. Agreed -> Greed 5. Abuses -> Buses 6. Aspire -> Spire 7. Amount -> Mount 8. Avoid -> Void

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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