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Almanac: Week: 03 \ Day: 015
January
Averages: 43°\16°
86004 Today: H 41°\L 21°
Ave. humidity: 75% Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind ave: 8mph\Gusts: 26mph
Ave. High: 43° Record
High: 65° (1943)
Ave. Low: 16° Record Low: -12° (1937)
Observances
Today:
Get
to Know Your Customers Day
Hat Day
Humanitarian
Day
Observances This
Week:
Cuckoo
Dancing Week
National Vocation Awareness Week
14-18
National
Soccer Coaches of America Week
No Tillage Week
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Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1535 - Henry
VIII declares himself head of the Church in England
1759 - British
Museum opens in Montague House, London
1777 - People of
New Connecticut (Vermont) declare independence from England
1797 - 1st top
hat worn (John Etherington of London)
1844 - University
of Notre Dame receives its charter in Indiana
1863 - 1st US
newspaper printed on wood-pulp paper, Boston Morning Journal
1864 - 60
starving Navajo surrender to Kit Carson after the Canyon de Chelly fight
1870 - Donkey
first used as symbol of Democratic Party, in Harper's Weekly
1907 - Gold dental inlays first described by
William Taggart, who invented them
1934 - Dillinger is shot several, but survives--he
is wearing a bullet proof vest.
1936
- 1st
all-glass windowless structure in US completed, Toledo, Ohio
1943 - World's largest office building, Pentagon,
completed
1947 - The
brutalized corpse of Elizabeth Short ("The Black Dahlia")
is found
1969 - Prime Minister of Northern Ireland Terence
O'Neill announces that an official inquiry will analyze the 'troubles' in
Northern Ireland
1976 - Sara
Jane Moore sentenced to life for attempting to shoot Pres Ford
1977 - Coneheads
debut on "Saturday Night Live"
1988 - Jimmy
"The Greek" Snyder makes racist remarks about black athletes
1997 - Diana, the Princess of Wales, calls for an
international ban on landmines, angering ministers in the UK
2001 - Wikipedia,
a free Wiki content encyclopedia, goes online
2009 - US
Airways Flight 1549 makes an emergency landing into the Hudson River
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♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthday’s Today
My
Rambling Thoughts
Snow, sunshine, snow, clouds, rain…it’s January in Flagstaff. Don’t
like our weather, just wait 5 minutes.
I had a great lunch with one of my old bosses. Caught up on stuff
since November and then reminisced on some of the good ol’ days in the Bureau.
Nice. Lots of laughs.
Got to make a stop at Sam’s and Sprouts so am set with necessities
and with fresh organic fruits and veggies. Also decided if I bought chocolate
candy at Sprouts, it was probably better for me than chocolate from other
stores. LOL
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
What
sort of story begins with a limb and ends with a finish?
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain:
60’s
Inventions…
1963
The video disk invented.
Emotion
Facts…
--People who laugh more are better able to tolerate pain - both
physical and emotional.
--Crying literally alleviates stress and uniquely allows humans to
decrease feelings of anger and sadness.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
75 YEARS
AGO
The first real snow fell last Friday leading to a whole series of
auto wreaks.
Harper’s
Index…
15
Estimated height in feet of a memorial tree planted for George
Harrions that died in July after an attack of beetles
$120,000,000,000
Estimated annual cost of invasive animal, plant and microbe
species to the US economy
Rules of
Thumb…
CHOOSING
A CALM PUPPY
Pick a puppy whose tail wags in sync
with his walk.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
The name for "piggy banks" comes from the use of family
money jars in the Middle Ages made from a type of clay called pygg.
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Joke-of-the-day
A guy wants to become a magician so he goes
out and buys a magician book. Later he gathers his family around the living
room for his first trick. Reading his new book he reaches into a bag and pulls
out a hammer and to the amazement of his family hits himself in the head with
it.
He's unconscious and spends a month in the
hospital. Suddenly a nurse notices his eye lids flicker.
She calls the family in and they gather around
his bed. Just then he sits up in bed awake and says..."TA-DAA"
Yep, It
Really Happened
VANCOUVER,
British Columbia (UPI)
Canada's Vancouver Aquarium said a copper rockfish was outfitted
with a prosthetic eye to keep him from being "picked on" by
underwater bullies. Aquarium officials said the rockfish had one of his eyes
surgically removed two years ago when a case of cataracts failed to heal and he
has lately been acting distressed at the bottom of his tank. "Before the
prosthetic, he was being hurt and quite uncomfortable because he was picked
on," Dr. Martin Haulena, head veterinarian at the aquarium, told Global
News. "What's been observed with fish that are missing an eye is other
fish take advantage of that ... they kind of go to that blind side, steal food
and pick on [them]." "It's a well-known thing that there is natural
aggression as different species kind of vie for the best space and habitat
they're in, so that kind of aggression is very very normal," he said. The
prosthetic was an eye designed for taxidermied fish. Haulena said the surgery
is not unheard of at similar facilities but was the first of its kind at the
aquarium. "Ever since we put in the prosthetic the fish is right back in
the mid-water column, interacting with other fish," the veterinarian said.
"He's more robust. Everybody, including the fish, seem a lot happier
now." A second rockfish underwent the same procedure and returned to
display at the Vancouver International Airport.
Somewhat
Useless Information
--Dietary
fiber (roughage) is an essential nutrient required for proper digestion of
foods, proper functioning of the digestive tract at large, and for helping you
feel full. A deficiency of fiber can lead to constipation, hemorrhoids, and
elevated levels of cholesterol and sugar in the blood. Conversely, an excess of
fiber can lead to a bowel obstruction, diarrhea, or even dehydration.
Individuals who increase their intake of fiber should also increase their
intake of water.
--Ten
common, extremely high fiber foods include; Bran, Cauliflower & Broccoli,
Cabbage, Berries, Leafy Greens, Celery, Squash, Beans, Mushrooms and Oranges!
--Osmium
is the most dense metal! Many people are familiar with lead (11.3 kg/mL), but
Osmium is twice as dense (22.6 kg/L)! Each liter of Osmium weighs 22.6 kg (50
lbs). For comparison, each liter of water weighs only 1 kg (about 2.2 lbs).
Some other heavy metals include Tungsten and Gold (19.3 kg/L), which are almost
as dense as Osmium.
--The
Large Hadron Collider recently made a matter known as quark-gluon plasma. It's
a hundred thousand times hotter than the inside of the sun and denser than
anything in the universe, except black holes.
--Quark-gluon plasma is what scientists believe the entire universe was like
immediately after the Big Bang. It's made up of quarks, which are the
elementary building blocks of positive charged protons and neutral neutrons and
gluons, particles that glue quarks together using the strong force. A physicist
says that "if you had a cubic centimeter of this stuff, it would weigh 40
billion tons."
--To make that magic matter, the LHC was used to smash together lead ions at
nearly the speed of light.
Gizmos
CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
(UPI)
Brain
scans have been widely employed and remarkably useful in correlative and experimental
research, helping scientists better understand the human brain structure and
its relationship to biological systems and the diseases that disrupt them. But
can brain imaging also be used to predict human behaviors?
A new survey of recent scientific literature on the subject -- conducted by
researchers at MIT and published this week in the journal Neuron -- suggests
the answer is yes, it can. And has.
According to the new survey, imaging of the brain has already proven capable of
predicting a person's future learning abilities and disabilities, propensity
for criminality, health-related behaviors, and reception to drug and behavioral
treatments.
As part of the new survey, researchers point to previous studies which showed
brain imaging could predict infants' future performances on reading and math
examinations. Another study found a correlation between brain structure and the
likelihood of a criminal becoming a repeat offender.
"Presently, we often wait for failure, in school or in mental health, to
prompt attempts to help, but by then a lot of harm has occurred," lead
author Dr. John Gabrieli, an MIT neuroscientist, said in a press release.
"If we can use neuroimaging to identify individuals at high risk for
future failure, we may be able to help those individuals avoid such failure
altogether."
"Seventy or so studies have reported positive findings that analyzing
brain measures beforehand can considerably improve knowing whether a person
will be successful at something," Gabrieli told Fox News.
Gabrieli and his colleagues were sure to point out the ethical dilemmas and
risks involved in this sort of scientific research. Their hope in shedding
light on these studies is to illuminate new methods of intervention, not to
instigate restrictive policies aimed at high-risk patients.
"We will need to make sure that knowledge of future behavior is used to
personalize educational and medical practices, and not be used to limit support
for individuals at higher risk of failure," explained Gabrieli. "For
example, rather than simply identifying individuals to be more or less likely
to succeed in a program of education, such information could be used to promote
differentiated education for those less likely to succeed with the standard
education program."
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Today’s
Events through History
1847 - 1st
Swedish magazine in US, Skandinavia, published in NYC
1882 - 1st US
ski club forms (Berlin NH)
1961 - Supremes
signed with Motown Records
1971 - George
Harrison releases "My Sweet Lord"
1973 - 4
Watergate burglars plead guilty in federal court
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Birthday’s
Today
Charo [Maria
Baeza], actress, comedienne and flamenco guitarist is 64
Mario Van
Peebles, Mexico, actor (Posse, South Bronx Heroes) is 58
Drew
Brees, American football player is 36
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Remembered
for being born today
Richard
Martin, Irish animal rights activist 1754-1834@79
Marjory
Fleming, Scottish child writer and poet 1803-1811@8
Peter C
Asbjornsen, Norwegian fairy tale writer1812-1885@72
Rex
Ingram, [Reginald IM Hitchcock], Irish director (4 Horsemen of
Apocalypse) 1892-1950@57
Aristotle
Onassis, Greece, rich shipping magnate 1906-1975@69
Edward
Teller, fathered H-bomb (Manhattan Project), 1908-2003@95
Gene
Krupa, Benny Goodman's drummer (Sing Sing Sing)1909-1973@64
Lloyd
Bridges, actor (Sea Hunt, Roots, Airplane) 1913-1998@85
Martin
Luther King Jr., clergyman and leader of the Civil Rights Movement (Nobel 1964),
1929-1968@39
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Historical
Obits Today
Ray
Bolger, actor/dancer (Wizard of Oz), 1987, @83
Matthew B
Brady, US photographer (Civil War), accident, 1896, @72ish
Fannie
Farmer, American culinary figure\author, 1915, @57
Brad
Renfro, actor (The Client), OD, 2008, @25
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Brain Teasers Answers
Legend
It begins with a limb (Leg) and ends with a finish (End).
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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 contains mistakes and sadly once 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…§
