Sep 30, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 40/ Day   274:   

Today: High   72°…Low 37° Records: High   83°(2010)…Low 22°(1902)
Averages: High  68°…Low 37°
Wind: average:   3mph;  Gusts:  16mph
Today’s average humidity:  49%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1993 - 6.4 earthquake at Latur, India, 28,000 killed

1962 - Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez founds the United Farm Workers

1960 - Flintstones premieres (1st prime time animation show)

1953 - Earl Warren appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

1934 - FDR dedicates Boulder Dam (Hoover Dam)

1877 - 1st US amateur swim meet (NY Athletic Club)

1864 - Black Soldiers given Medal of Honor

1791 - Mozart's opera "Magic Flute" premieres in Vienna

1452 - 1st book published, Johann Guttenberg's Bible

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A good Saturday. A little cloudy most of the day, but cleared up in the afternoon. Good day to do laundry…if there is such a thing. Also did some light cleaning while waiting for washer and dryer to do their thing. I also pulled out my great-grandmother’s quilt that she made in the 1920’s. I only use it for a few months each winter…and it’s still in great shape.

I’ve added some new items to this blog. Hope you enjoy them. One is Guinness World Records…never wanted to be on the list, but these people must have a passion. Another is Commercial Jingles You May Remember…as we all get them stuck in our head every now and then. Ok…then? Is just some funny or odd stuff from Facebook.

I did catch some of the NAU game—and they won again…having a good season. CU lost again…not having a good season. I don’t follow sports closely, but have found that there are some good games every now and then to watch.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the rhyming answer?

Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)

headache (5,4)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Kevin Fast (Canada) pulled a CC-177 Globemaster III airplane, weighing 188.83 tonnes (416,299 lb), a distance of 8.8 m (28 ft 10.46 in) at Canadian Forces Base in Trenton, Ontario, Canada, on 17 September 2009. 

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

"I'd like to teach the world to sing." 1971

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Shoplifters Robbed While Stealing from Grocery Store

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

Hibernophilia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

Hallelujah Chorus…George F. Handel

Handel wrote the entire Messiah oratorio in 24 days. He borrows from his own works quite liberally in it, and some melodies by other composers, but the immortal Hallelujah Chorus is entirely his. He claimed to have not heard it in his head, but in his ears, being played by the angels in Heaven, while he simply took it down on paper. Its text comes from the King James version of the Revelation, 19:6, 11:15, and 19:16. When Haydn heard it once, he said, “Handel is the master of us all.” It is so famous now, that it is usually performed at Christmas even though the chorus comes at the end of the Easter section.

Harper’s Index:         

• Date on which a Slovakian government agency opened online voting to name a bridge over the Morava River: 2/21/2012
• Percentage of voters who sought to name the bridge after Chuck Norris: 75

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The ostrich doesn't stick its head underground to hide from predators. It bends its neck down low and flattens its head against the ground.

Found on You Tube: 

• "Clarabelle Speaks!"

• Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers - Why Do Fools Fall In Love

Joke-of-the-day:

Now that we are into renaming things like Mount Diablo, President Obama wants to rename the San Andreas Fault. His suggestion, Bush's Fault.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SELLING AND TALKING…The sale is made while the customer is talking.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

EBENSBURG, Pa. - A Pennsylvania municipality is seeking a buyer or tenant for a unique property -- the former county prison. The Ebensburg Borough Council said the back portion of the facility, which is newer than the front, is being used to house county records, but the front portion, which was the original Cambria County Prison, has been vacant for 15 years, WJAC-TV, Johnstown, Pa., reported Thursday.
"If it wasn't the landmark that it is in town, if it wasn't on the national list of historic places, we still couldn't tear it down," Ebensburg Borough Manager Dan Penatzer said. "I think it's probably impossible to tear this building down." He said there are many different potential uses for the building. "A restaurant, a microbrewery, retail, offices, anything," Penatzer said. "There's so much crazy character about this building that could apply it to any business theme like that. I think there's a lot of possibilities."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• George M. Dallas was the 11th vice president (1845-1849), serving under President James K. Polk. Dallas didn’t hold a very high opinion of the office, saying of the vice president: "Where is he to go? What has he to do? — no where, nothing." He called his wife "Mrs. Vice."

• Millard Fillmore was the 12th vice president (1849-1850), serving under President Zachary Taylor. When Taylor died in office, Fillmore became president, the last member of the Whig Party to do so. Taylor and Fillmore disagreed over extending slavery to territory won in the Mexican-American war. Taylor opposed expanding slavery while Fillmore supported it. Fillmore became president when Taylor died in office.

• William R. King was the 13th vice president (1853), serving under President Franklin Pierce. King was terminally ill with tuberculosis. He had gone to Cuba to help ease his health problems and was too sick to return to Washington, D.C., for the inaugural. Congress passed a special act to allow him to take the oath of office in Cuba, the only time it has been done on foreign soil.

• John C. Breckinridge was the 14th vice president (1857-1861), serving under President James Buchanan. He was the youngest person to hold the office, being elected at 35 (the minimum age under the Constitution) and taking office at 36. He later served as a general in the Confederate States Army.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

Gotta wait for October for any special events

Today Is                                                                      

Blasphemy Day
Gold Star Mother's DayNational Mud Pack Day
~Botswana: Independence Day (1966 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

 2005 - The controversial drawings of Muhammad are printed in the Danish 

              newspaper Jyllands-Posten

1900’s

1993 - General Colin Powell retires at 56

1990 - The Dalai Lama unveils the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights in 

            Canada's capital city of Ottawa

1988 - Louise Ritter, US, jumps 6'8" to win Olympic gold medal

1980 - Ethernet specifications published by Xerox working with Intel and 

            Digital Equipment Corporation

1975 - The Hughes (later McDonnell-Douglas, now Boeing) AH-64 Apache 

            makes its first flight

1970 - New American Bible published

1960 - On Howdy Doody's last show Clarabelle finally talks "Goodbye Kids"

1946 - 22 Nazi leaders found guilty of war crimes at Nuremberg

1942 - 98 U-boats sunk this month (485,000 tons)

1941 - 53 U-boats sunk this month (202,000 tons)

1940 - 59 U-boats sunk this month (295,000 tons)

1935 - Gershwin's "Porgy & Bess" premieres in Boston

1929 - 1st manned rocket plane flight (by auto maker Fritz von Opel)

1920 - Time Square Theater opens at 217 W 42nd St NYC

1800’s

1867 - Midway Islands formally declared a US possession

1865 - Acoording to a report dated today, the following number of Indians were 

            present at the Fort Sumner, New Mexico reservation in September: 

           402 Apache, 7,318 Navajo.

1813 - Battle of Bárbula: Simón Bolívar defeats Santiago Bobadilla

1700’s

1787 - 1st US voyage around the world - Columbia leaves Boston

1730 - In British Court in London, seven Cherokee leaders sign the "Articles of 

            Agreement" with the Lords Commissioners. It is a formal alliance covering 

            allegiance, peace and the return of captives.

1100’s

1199 - Rambam (Maimonides) authorizes Samuel Ibn Tibbon to translate Guide

             of Perplexed from Arabic into Hebrew

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 40’s

Jenna Elfman, actress (Townies, Dharma & Greg) is 41

In their 50’s

 Crystal Bernard, actress (Amy-It's a Living, Helen-Wings) is 51

Fran Drescher, actress (Cadillac Man, Nanny)  is 55

Eric Stoltz, actor: Pulp Fiction, Mask is 51

Barry Williams, Santa Monica California, actor (Greg-Brady Bunch) is 58

In their 60’s

Marilyn McCoo, Jersey City NJ, host/singer (Solid Gold, 5th Dimension) is 69

In their 70’s

Johnny Mathis, SF, voclaist (Chances Are, 12th of Never) is 77

In their 80’s

 Angie Dickinson, actress (Police Woman) is 81

Elie Wiesel, Romania, author (Souls on Fire)/Nazi hunter (Nobel 1986) is 84

Remembered for being born today

Truman Capote, New Orleans LA, author (In Cold Blood) b. 1924

Deborah Kerr, Helensburg Scotland, actress (King & I, Night of Iguana) b. 1921

Frankie Lymon, NYC, rocker (The Teenagers-Why do Fools Fall in Love) b. 1942

José María Morelos, Mexican revolutionary b. 1765

Chung Hee Park, general/pres of S Korea b. 1917

Jody Powell, press mouthpiece (Jimmy Carter) b. 1943

Buddy Rich, New York, American jazz drummer and band leader b. 1917

William Stoughton, American judge at the Salem witch trials b. 1631

William Wrigley Jr., chewing gum industrialist b. 1861

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Oops, see yesterday.

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

Love of all things Irish (from the classical Latin Hibernia = Ireland)

What is the rhyming answer?

 Brain pain

Rebus

Broken promise

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  §

Sep 29. 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac…  

Week: 39/ Day:   Today: High   72°…Low 37°

Records: High   83°(2010)…Low 21°(1900)

Averages: High  69°…Low 37°

Wind: average:   2mph;  Gusts:  15mph

Today’s average humidity:  50%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…

1988 - UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize

2009 - An 8.0 magnitude earthquake near the Samoan Islands causes a tsunami  

1988 - UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize

1988 - Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets 200m woman's record (21.34)

1979 - Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland

1962 - JFK authorized use of federal troops to integrate U of Mississippi

1946 - Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA

1916 - John D Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire

1904 - 1st monument honoring Spanish American War erected (Monroeville Ohio)

1829 - London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty (Scotland Yard)

1789 - US War Dept established a regular army

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 

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

Free Rambling Thoughts…   

I had another angioedema attack early this morning. This time it was my upper lip so didn’t interfere with my sleep, but when I woke up about 6am it was full blown. Took my pills and it was back to normal by 10am. What a mess.

 

I should have stayed inside and done laundry today, but it was just too nice a day not to be outside. A nice long walk, time on my deck, lots of fresh air. A good way to spend a Friday and Saturday will be a good day to do laundry.

 

Faux news made national news in a bad way. And it happened right here in AZ. Faux was following a car chase live…with a 5 second delay during a national broadcast. The viewers saw the man shoot and kill himself in the chest.  The anchor apologized, but it was too late. I have to admit that I did watch the OJ ‘chase’ back in the day. It was the last time I watched one. This kind of sensational news is a mainstay of Faux, both locally and nationally. I just change the channel, if somehow I am watching a Faux show. I wonder if the tech that didn’t use the 5 second delay still has a job?

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

What is the rhyming answer?

Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)

complaint by a Toronto hockey player (4,4) 

Rebus…

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     

Do you remember these?

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Poverty Meeting Attracts Poor Turnout

Do you know what this word means?

What is this not so common name of a common object?

glossophilia

Gorilla:

Great Melodies…:

Ride of the Valkyries…Richard Wagner

It’s the most famous, and some say the greatest of the Warner Brothers cartoon shorts ever made. And that cartoon makes use of quite a bit of Wagner’s best known melodies (Merrie Melodies, indeed). The cartoon is also called “Kill the Wabbit,”  thanks to Elmer Fudd, who chases Bugs Bunny through operatic sets of particular opulence.

Harper’s Index…         

Portion of Sudan’s oil exports bought by China last year: 2/3

Unusal Fact of the Day…

William Shatner (Captain Kirk from Stak Trek) could never spread his fingers for the Vulcan greeting unless the studio crew taped or tied fishing line around his fingers.

Found on You Tube… 

• Classic Sesame Street - Grover and Madeline Kahn

• James Dean-Rebel Without a Cause

Joke-of-the-day…

A vertically challenged psychic was arrested one day. He escaped from jail and the newspaper headline read, "SMALL MEDIUM AT-LARGE."

Rules of Thumb…   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

DIRECTION CONVEYS TIME AND EMOTION…In advertising, art and photography, the direction the subject is looking or the flow of the composition can affect the tone of the image. Left is the past, right is the future, up is positive, down is negative. For example: a subject looking up and to the right is looking positively into the future.  

Yeah, It Really Happened…

 20-year-old Alexander Broughton who was admitted to UT Medical Center unconscious and unresponsive. He had a blood alcohol content level greater than 0.4, which is considered toxic and potentially deadly. Legal intoxication is 0.08. He had taken an alcohol enema.

Investigators determined the incident happened at Phi Kappa Alpha's house on campus where they found several other people, including three men, still passed out the next morning.

Investigators are working to determine if Broughton was assaulted or made the decision to engage in the behavior himself. UT suspended the Phi Kappa Alpha chapter for 30 days or until a decision is made about the chapter's future.

Somewhat Useless Information…   

• Due to the similarity between his last name and that of canine PSA character McGruff, who urges everyone to "take a bite out of crime," baseball slugger Fred McGriff became popularly known as "The Crime Dog."

• Woodsy Owl debuted in 1970 as an environmental representative who chastised us "Give a hoot, don't pollute," a slogan coined by U.S. Forest Ranger Chuck Williams. During the 1990s, Woodsy's message was changed to be a bit more all encompassing: "Lend a hand, care for the land!" 

• Dick Van Dyke starred in a series of Public Service Announcements from 1975 to 1984 for the National Fire Protection Agency's "Learn Not to Burn" campaign. After he lost his Malibu home to a wildfire, he agreed to become the voice of Sparky, the Fire Dog.

• Before there was a rock band of the same name, there were the original Crash Test Dummies. Named Larry and Vince, these two characters spent 15 years reminding Americans what could happen to them if they forgot to buckle their seat belts when riding in an automobile. Their motto: "You could learn a lot from a dummy."

• There's an old children's joke about Smokey the Bear's middle name being "The". Not only is the joke bad, but the information is as well. The character's full name is really just Smokey Bear.

• During the 1980s, a large number of American cartoon shows contained PSA's at the end of their shows. Three of the most widely known are the closing moral segments at the end of He Man and the Masters of the Universe, the "Knowing is Half the Battle" epilogues in GI Joe: A Real American Hero and the "Sonic Sez" segments from Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog.

Calendar Information…        

Happening This Week:

22-29: Banned Books Week / National Dog Week / National Keep Kids Creative Week / Remember to Register to Vote Week / International Women's E-Commerce Days

Today Is…                                                                      

Family Health and Fitness Day USA
National Attend Your Grandchild's Birth Day
National Coffee Day
National Museum Day : Thanks SmithsonianNational Public Lands Day
Poisoned Blackberries Day: Legend has it that on this day the Devil poisoned all of the blackberries in Scotland
VFW Day: Veterans of Foreign Wars--Thanks
World Heart Day

Today’s Events Through History…

TV shows that premired this date

1993 - "Grace Under Fire," starring Brett Butler debuts on ABC-TV

1986 - "Designing Women," TV Comedy, debuts on CBS

1985 - "MacGyver," starring Richard Dean Anderson, debuts on ABC-TV

1971 - "McMillan & Wife," debuts on NBC-TV

1969 - "Love American Style," premieres on ABC-TV

1963 - "My Favorite Martian," starring Ray Walston, debuts on CBS-TV

1962 - "Roy Rogers & Dale Evans Show," debuts on ABC-TV

1959 - "Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis," debuts on CBS-TV

1956 - "Oh! Susanna," debuts on CBS-TV 1955 - "Sergeant Preston," debuts on CBS

1953 - Milton Berle Show premieres

1953 - "Make Room for Daddy," starring Danny Thomas, premieres on ABC-TV

 2000’s

2008 - Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The 

            Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point 

            loss in its history

2006 - US Representative Mark Foley resigns after allegations of inappropriate emails 

            to house pages were introduced

1900’s

1963 - Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)

1962 - "Green Onions" by Booker T & MG's peaks at #3

1959 - Little Anthony & the Imperials record "Shimmy Shimmy Koko Bop"

1951 - 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)

1950 - Telephone Answering Machine created by Bell Laboratories

1946 - "Adventures of Sam Spade" debuts on CBS Radio

1944 - Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia

1936 - Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign

1930 - Lowell Thomas made debuts on CBS Radio

1927 - Telephone service begins between US & Mexico

1915 - 1st transcontinental radio telephone message is sent

1907 - Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral

1800’s

1885 - The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool,

            England

1872 - Kiowa-chief Lone Wolf captures Satanta & Big Tree

1806 - Zebulon Pike holds a grand council with the Pawnee. Pike estimates 400 

            Pawnee warriors attend. He hopes to win their allegiance to the United States, 

            rather than Spain.

1700’s

1789 - 1st congress adjourns

1769 - The expedition to explore the central California coast led by Gaspar de Portolá

            has camped near modern Monterey. Along the Salina River, members of the 

            expedition encounter a small Indian hunting party

1600’s

 1650 - Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)

1300’s

 1349 - People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning wells

Before 1000CE

219 - Batavian soldiers consecrate altar on Hercules Magusanus Rome

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           

In their 30’s

 Zachary Levi, actor, director is 32

In their 40’s

Jill Whelan, actress [Love Boat] will be 46

In their 50’s

Sebastian Coe, British athlete, 8 world running records, 4 Olympic medals is 56

Andrew "Dice" Clay, [Silverstien], comedian (Adv of Ford Fairlane) is 55

Ken Weatherwax, actor (Pugsley-Addams Family) is 57

In their 60’s

 Bryant Gumbel, New Orleans La, sportscaster/TV host (Today Show) is 64

In their 70’s

Silvio Berlusconi, former Prime Minister of Italy is 76

Jerry Lee Lewis, Feriday La, country singer (Whole Lotta Shakin') is 77

Ian McShane, Blackburn England, actor (Roots, Bare Essence) is 70

In their 80’s

 Anita Ekberg, actress (La Dolce Vita)/Miss Sweden (1950 will be 81

Steve Forrest, Huntsville Tx, actor (Ben-Dallas, SWAT) is 88

O A "Bum" Phillips, football coach (Houston Oilers/New Orlean Saints) is 89

Remembered for being born today

Herbert Agar, American journalist and historian b. 1897

Michelangelo Antonioni, Ferrara Italy, director (Blow-up, Red Desert) b. 1912

Joseph Banks Rhine, Penn, parapsychologist (Extra-Sensory Perception) b. 1895

Enrico Fermi, Rome, US physicist, gone fission/fermium (Nobel-1938) b. 1901

Greer Garson, British WWII actress b. 1904

Madeline Kahn, Boston Mass, actress (Young Frankenstein, High Anxiety) b. 1942

Larry Linville, Ojai California, actor (Frank Burns-M*A*S*H, Blue Movie) b. 1939

Billy Strange [William], singer-songwriter (A Little Less Conversation) b. 1930

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           

Anwar al-Awlaki, American-born terrorist and Islamist militant —2011—at 40

John Billington, murderer, 1st American execution—hanged—1630—around 40

James Dean, actor (Rebel Without a Cause)—car crash—1955—at 24

Saint Jerome, translator of the Vulgate Bible—420—at 73

Simone Signoret, German/French actress (Room at Top, Gina)— pancreatic 

     cancer—1985—at 64

Toohoolhoolzote, prophet of Nez Perce—in battle—1877—in his 50’s

Answers…                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

Love of language and the study of languages; glossophiles are often polyglots (from the Greek glossa = tongue, language)

What is the rhyming answer?

 Leaf beef

Rebus

Your time is up

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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