11/7/13

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Flagstaff Almanac:

Week: 45/ Day: 311   

Today: L 12°…H 51°… Ave. humidity: 54%

Wind: ave:   3mph; Gusts:  11mph  

Average Low: 24° Record Low:  8° (1947)

Average High: 54° Record High:  71° (1934)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

1820 - James Monroe elected 5th US president

1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US

1876 - Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D)

            wins election but Electoral College selects Hayes (R)…1876

1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president

1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) elected president

1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)

1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)

2000 - US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme 

            Court Case

Anne Hutchinson banished from Mass bay colony as a heretic…1637

Lewis & Clark sight Pacific Ocean…1805

Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeats Tecumesh Confederation…1811

1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast…1874

US State Colorado accepts female suffrage…1893

1st issue of The New Republic magazine is published…1914

October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power…1917

Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)…1929

Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung…1931

1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio…1932

1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French…1942

Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around anymore…1962

LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting…1967

Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland…1990

Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage…2012

Spaniards have their first view of Tenochtitlán (modern Mexico City)…1519

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

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

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

An historical day in my life. I had my first cataract surgery…all went well. I got picked up at 7a—while it was 13° outside. I was in and out by 9:30 this morning. I was a little nervous…after all it is my eye! My doctor is great…he was doing 14 cataract surgeries today and I was number 2. Must say all my nervousness was unnecessary. Thank you Versed, the drug that relaxes you and erases your mind as to what has just gone on. I was brought home, ate breakfast, slept a couple of hours and then the big moment of taking the patch off. While my eye stays dilated most of the rest of today, I can see. Of course I had visions of taking the patch off and having everything being black. I’ll have the other eye done in a couple of weeks, then I have to wait a month to get a new script for glasses. I will still need to wear a weak script, since I have to have a prism in each glasses lens since my muscles have not focused correctly forever.  Modern technology is great.

 

Also my concern about voting yesterday…to vote for or against a property tax rise for the local community college. While I voted to help education, the majority of the voters in the county didn’t see it that way. Very low turnout. I recall a class I had to take when I was working for my administration certificate. It was all about school boards. One of the main topics I remember was the politics of getting a bond issue passed in a community. Being the only thing on the ballot, it is very important to get the word out as to how the money will help the community. They didn’t do that very well.  The world will go on, and the college will figure out something, but that is the way it goes.

 

NFL Locker room Culture…really? These guys are just like little bullies from Jr. High. I was talking to a maintenance guy who works at NAU, where the AZ Cardinals did their preseason practice for almost a decade. They left and decided to have their preseason in Phoenix. Disappointing for fans in the northern part of the state. In a conversation when they announced they were leaving, this maintenance guy said he was glad they were leaving, because all they did was come out of the locker room and complain that there were not enough ‘beautiful babes’ in our hick town. So much goes on behind the scenes as many of these guys make millions with no respect for the fans and now we learn some have little respect for their teammates. Sad. Time for a culture change.  

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

In each group below, I have listed four (4) unrelated words. Your job is to try and find a word that can either precede or follow each word in each group.
Example:
picture, inner, top, test
Answer: picture TUBE, inner TUBE, TUBE top, test TUBE. 

1. ankle, puppet, wind, away 2. draft, hall, belly, root 3. alphabet, bowl, spoon, kitchen 4. upright, wire, grand, tuner

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

• Motorcycle scene- The Great Escape

• Maverick: Jack Kelly as Bart Maverick

• Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Speech

• Al Hirt Java 1963

• William Buckley interviews Billy Graham

• JOHNNY RIVERS - Secret Agent Man 1966

Very Strange Laws…Idaho

• Illegal for a man to give his sweetheart a box of candy weighing less than fifty pounds.

• You may not fish on a camel’s back.

• Riding a merry-go-round on Sundays is considered a crime.

• Boise
--Residents may not fish from a giraffe’s back

• Coeur d Alene
--If a police officer approaches a vehicle and suspects that the occupants are engaging in sex, he must either honk, or flash his lights and wait for three minutes before approaching the car.

• Eagle
--Dirt may not be swept from one’s house into the street. /Bicycles are not allowed in the tennis courts. /Persons may not camp out on sidewalks in the city.

• Pocatello
: A law passed in 1912 provided that “The carrying of concealed weapons is forbidden, unless some are exhibited to public view. /A person may not be seen in public without a smile on their face.

OK Then…

 

Harper’s Index 

Factor by which a US teenage boy is more likely to vomit or use laxatives to control his weight if he live in L.A.: 2

Unusual Fact of the Day

Tigers, leopards, and jaguars love Calvin Klein's Obsession for Men. The scent is used to attract animals to cameras in the wilderness.

Joke-of-the-day

Mad men are given a test to check their mental state. The instructor draws a door on the wall and orders them to go out.
They start rushing to the door but one remains sitting. The instructor goes to him and asks; “why didn’t you join the others?”
He replies, "let them fight they forgot I have the keys"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

TRAVELING BY BICYCLE

On a good ten-speed bicycle you can travel 50 miles per day at a leisurely pace. Riding straight through with only a few rest stops can get you 70 to 80 miles per day with little effort.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - A smartwatch from Google could go into production within months as the search giant is in talks with Asian manufacturers, The Wall Street Journal reports. Citing "people familiar with the matter," the Journal reported Tuesday the potential smartwatch would run Android and Google Now, the company's voice-assistant feature that runs on Google Glass. It is expected to be capable of communicating with other devices including smartphones and tap into information from the wearer's Google account. The Google watch would compete in the marketplace with a number of wearable computing devices such as the Galaxy Gear smartwatch from Samsung. Sony has a smartwatch on the market, Microsoft is said to be working on one, and Apple has long been rumored to be preparing an iWatch for release. The growing wearable computing market is predicted to be worth $10 billion by 2015.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• Al Capone's older brother Vince was a policeman in Nebraska.

• Alexander Graham Bell refused to have a phone in his study - the ringing drove him nuts.

• The day Judy Garland died, a tornado touched down in Kansas.

• Buzz Aldrin's mother's maiden name was Moon.

• Kodak founder George Eastman hated to have his picture taken.

• P.J. Tierney, father of the modern diner, died of indigestion in 1917 after eating at a diner.

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                                                                      

·        Job Action Day

·        National Gin Day

·        National Men Make Dinner Day

·        National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day

·        Republican Elephant Day

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·        Bangladesh: Revolution & Solidarity Day (1975 uprising ends)

Today’s Events through History  

1st edition of "London Gazette"…1665

Oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton 

       Musical Society…1786

Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its 1st woman Representative…1916 

Influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing about 20% population…1918

Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former 

     First Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the 

     First Lady…2000

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Billy Graham, Baptist evangelist (Crusades) is 95

Barry Newman, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli) is 75

Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella], singer (Secret Agent Man) is 71

Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic is 70

Jeremy London, actor (I'll Fly Away, Party of Five) is 41

Remembered for being born today

Marie Curie, Warsaw, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911) [1867-1934]

Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], revolutionary and Theorist [1879-1940]

Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957) [1913-1960]

Al Hirt, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) [1922-1999]

Dana Plato, Maywood California, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes) [1964-1999]

Dean Jagger, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry) [1903-1991]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Will Durant, US author (story of civilization)…1981…@96

Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ…1978…@81

Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945)…cardiac arrest…1962…@78

Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer…liver cancer…2011…@67

Jack Kelly, actor (Maverick, Vega$)…..stroke…1992…@65

Steve McQueen, actor (Bullitt)…cardiac arrest after cancer surgert…1980…@50

Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], train and bank robber…shot by Bolivian 

     soldiers…1908…@42

Brain Teasers

1. ankle SOCK, SOCK puppet, wind SOCK, SOCK away 2. draft BEER, BEER hall, BEER belly, root BEER 3. alphabet SOUP, SOUP bowl, SOUP spoon, SOUP kitchen 4. upright PIANO, PIANO wire, grand PIANO, PIANO tuner

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  §