Mar 6, 2013


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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 10/ Day: 65   
Today: H   52°…L 20° Averages: H  48° L 22° Records: H   68°(1910)…L -5°(1948)
Wind: ave:   11mph; Gusts:  17mph  Ave. humidity:  51%

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights
► 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard►1808
3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight►1836
Census Bureau forms►1902
Dred Scott Decision: Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens►1857
Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point milt academy►1831
Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner►1972
Magellan discovers Guam►1521
Silly Putty invented►1950
US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle►1918
USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin►1944

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts   
A nice quiet day at home. No need to do anything, anywhere. Caught up on some mail, a little cleaning. Nice. 
I feel so much safer when I am flying…they are now permitting carry-on knives that are less than 2.36 inches long and less than one-half inch wide. TSA will also permit sports equipment such as billiard cues, ski poles, hockey sticks, lacrosse sticks and two golf clubs. Souvenir, novelty and toy baseball bats -- such as wiffle-ball bats – while pitchforks, grenades, swords, nunchucks, stun guns, ammo and spears remain on the no-fly list. Some sports enthusiasts must be happy, except golfers, who really can’t play golf with two clubs. I expect an outcry from farmers who fly, since their pitchforks are still banned. Those who do reenactments are probably upset that their spears are still not carry on. In a few of the smaller planes I have flown the newly allowed items will still have to be checked, since the overhead is not large enough to accommodate them. And we still have to take off our shoes.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Below are incomplete words. Place two letters in each bracket so that you can complete the word on the left and begin the word on the right. Good luck.
Perfu (--) rge Barb (--) itor Again (--) ain Sta (--) sture Giraf (--) deral Featu (--) medy

Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

 Ok, then?

Getting old-er
A nurse was on duty in the Emergency Roomwhen a young woman with purple hair styled into a punk rocker Mohawk, sporting a variety of tattoos, and wearing strange clothing, entered. It was quickly determined that the patient had acute appendicitis, so she was scheduled for immediate surgery. While she was completely disrobed on the operating table, the staff noticed that her pubic hair had been dyed green and above it there was a tattoo that read . . . 'Keep off the grass.' Once the surgery was completed, the surgeon wrote a short note on the patient's dressing, which said 'Sorry . . . had to mow the lawn. 'Submitted by RN, no name
Picture of the Day: Mountains of the world

Harper’s Index         
Ratio of US tax breaks to tax revenue in 2011: 1:1
Unusual Fact of the Day
A sardine is not a species of fish, but a name that can apply to many small varieties of pickled fish, including herring and pilchard.
Ancient Things
The Ancient Wall as a Cultural Barrier
The Great Wall of China has become so mythologized by in our imagination that we don’t realize it was actually the most extreme cultural barrier ever created. 
Joke-of-the-day
A forester and a lawyer were in car accident and showed up at the pearly gates together.
St. Peter greets them at the pearly gates and takes them to the homes where they will spend all of eternity. They get into St. Peter's holy vehicle and head on down a gold road, which turns into a platinum road, which turns onto an even grander road paved with diamonds, to a huge mansion where St. Peter turns to the lawyer and says, here is your home for the rest of eternity, enjoy! And if there is anything you need, just let me know.
Then St. Peter took the forester to his home, back down the diamond studded boulevard, down the platinum highway, down the street of gold, down an avenue of silver, along a stone alley and down an unpaved footpath to a shack. St Peter says, "Here you go" and goes to leave when the forester says "Wait minute! How come the lawyer gets the big mansion and I get this shack?"
St. Peter says: "Well, Foresters are a dime a dozen here, we have never had a lawyer before."
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
KEEPING A FRIEND
Never loan a friend more than you can afford to give away.   
Yeah, It Really Happened
Marc Bradly Johnson, an MFA student at New York's School of Visual Arts, had a great idea for his thesis project: he would fill 68 vials with his own semen, place them in a refrigerator in one of SVA's galleries, advertise the display on Craigslist, and then give away his semen to any interested members of the public.
Because it's art.
But, as the Daily Intelligencer reports, health-concerned administrators at SVA temporarily confiscated the project once it was brought to their attention.
"I've been working on this for months," Johnson told Daily Intelligencer, "Somewhat ironically - it's just masturbating and calling it artwork." He said his professors were well aware and that he'd shown the work multiple times in class critiques.
"This isn't unprecedented," he said. "There is plenty of bio-hazardous work in the art world."
So the refrigerator full of semen was seized and locked in an administrator's office until a waste-management firm could pick it up. Johnson claimed censorship.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • In 1690, the Massachusetts Bay Colony issued the first paper money in the colonies which would later form the United States. 
  • In 1775, American colonists issued paper currency for the Continental Congress to finance the Revolutionary War. The notes were backed by the "anticipation" of tax revenues. 
  • In 1781, to support the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress chartered the Bank of North America in Philadelphia as the nation's first "real" bank. 
  • In 1791, after adoption of the Constitution in 1789, Congress chartered the first Bank of the United States until 1811 and authorized it to issue paper bank notes to eliminate confusion and simplify trade. The bank served as the U.S. Treasury's fiscal agent, thus performing the first central bank functions. 
  • In 1861, on the brink of bankruptcy and pressed to finance the Civil War, Congress authorized the United States Treasury to issue paper money for the first time in the form of non-interest bearing Treasury Notes call Demand Notes. 
  • In 1877, the Department of the Treasury's Bureau of Engraving and Printing started printing all U.S. currency.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
1-7
National Cheerleading Week:
National Ghostwriters Week
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week
2-5
American Council on Education:
2-19
Iditarod Race
3-9 
Severe Weather Preparedness Week
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Save Your Vision Week
Telecommunicator Appreciation Week
Read an E-Book Week
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Women in Construction Week
Newspaper in Education Week
National School Breakfast Week
Share A Story - Shape A Future Week

Today Is                                                                      
Oreo Cookie Day
Learn What Your Name Means Day
~Ghana: Independence Day (1957 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  
1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace►1998
Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1►1966 
Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay, Muhammad Ali►1964
Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and 
     is recovered a week later►1997
Walter Cronkite signs-off as anchorman of "CBS Evening News"►1981
Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"►1985

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential advisor (FRB) is 87
In their 70’s
David Spielberg, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice) is 74
 In their 60’s
Martin Kove, Bkln NY, actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey) is 67
Rob Reiner, actor/director (All in the Family, Stand By Me)  is 66
 In their 50’s
Tom Arnold, actor is 54
Darryl Lynn ‘D.L.’ Hughley, American comedian and actor is 50
In their 40’s
Shaquille O'Neal, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96) is 41

Remembered for being born today
Cyrano de Bergerac, famous nose, playwright (Voyage to the Moon) [1619-1655]
Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5) [1927-2004]
Lou Costello, , comedian/actor (Abbott & Costello) [1906-1959]
Ed McMahon, TV host (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search) [1923-2009]
Michelangelo, Italian painter (David) [1475-1564]
Bob Wills, actor (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle) [1906-1975]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Louisa May Alcott, US author (Old-fashioned Girl)-stroke-1888-at 55
Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier-at Alamo-1836-at 40
Pearl S[ydenstricker] Buck, author (Good Earth-Nobel 1938)-1973-at 80
Davy Crockett, US pioneer (Alamo), killed at Alamo-1836-at 49
Nelson Eddy, US baritone/actor (Phantom of the Opera)- cerebral hemorrhage-1967-at 65
William Hopper, actor (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)-stroke-1970-at 55
Georgia O'Keefe, US painter (Flowers)-1986-at 98
Ayn Rand (Alisa Zinov'yevna Rosenbaum), author-philosopher-heart failure-1982-at 77
John Philip Sousa, US composer (Stars & Stripes Forever)- heart failure-1932-at 77

Answer: Brain Teasers
Perfume - merge Barbed - editor Against - stain Stage - gesture Giraffe - federal Feature - remedy
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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Mar 5, 2013


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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 10/ Day: 64   
Today: H   53°…L 36° Averages: H  48° L 22° Records: H   68°(1910)…L -16°(1966)
Wind: ave:   10mph; Gusts:  18mph  Ave. humidity:  47%

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights
"King Kong," 1st televised►1956 1,000 US marines land in China to protect 
     American property►1927
1st old age pension plans in US established by Montana & Nevada►1923
Phoenix offers a $200 bounty for dead Indians►1891
Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US►1845
Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army►1960
FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday►1933
Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg►1995
Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes►1912
Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa) ►1994
Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx) ►1934
Mexico attacks Alamo►1836
Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data►1982
SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC►1970
Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech►1946

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

Free Rambling Thoughts   
Quite a busy day for me here in Flagstaff…and for a Monday, I can’t imagine what the rest of the week will bring. It started off with a great lunch and conversation with a former colleague. John is doing well, keeping busy with several part time jobs and watching the grandkids grow. Good to see him and hearing about his adventures in retirement. Then a call to the State of Colorado. My friend Margaret is at her wits end….as am I. Turns out, the State of Colorado has 2 checks for me, that I didn’t deserve…and the ‘interest’ on those checks plus the checks explain the bill they sent me. So after talking to some other bureaucrat, the checks had not been mailed to me. Since I didn’t claim the checks they didn’t send to my address, they sent them to…ready…to the State of AZ unclaimed property. Somehow they knew I lived in AZ but didn’t know my address that was on the friggin Income Tax form. So I called AZ and they could only tell me they were holding ‘unclaimed property’ and couldn’t tell me how much or what is was until I filled out the necessary paperwork. I did get the bureaucrat to say that my guess that they were State of Colorado refund checks was a ‘good guess.’ He could email me or snail me the forms. I opted for snail mail so I would at least have a postmark to work with. Dear Margaret said that she would erase the penalty charges and that I could just pay the amount of the two checks. To end my day I got a call from Bob, my neighbor from CO and my roommate on my upcoming cruise. He is doing fine. We are both looking forward to our trip. He too had a CO Dept of Revenue story, much like mine, that took him a year and two visits to downtown Denver and at least 10 mailings the same forms to the office. Glad to hear it wasn’t just me. We also may be going to Cuba as roommates when that trip comes up. His kids and grandkids are doing great. His granddaughter is expecting her first child, his grandson is still teaching ESL in China and loving it. So nice to hear from such a good neighbor and friend.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Ok, then?

Getting old-er
I was performing rounds at the hospital one morning and while checking up on a man I asked . . . ' So how's your breakfast this morning? '
'It's very good except for the Kentucky Jelly. I can't seem to get used to the taste,' Bob replied.
I then asked to see the jelly and Bob produced A foil packet labeled ' KY Jelly. 'Submitted by Dr. Leonard Kransdorf ,Detroit
Picture of the Day: Mountains of the world

Harper’s Index         
  • Percentage increase since 2008 in the protion o Americans who call themselves ‘lower class’: 28
  • In the portion earning more that $100,000 who do: 20

Unusual Fact of the Day
There is actually a specific area of the brain known as the bilateral vomitation center. It notes when our tummy is upset and makes the final decision whether to barf or not to barf.
Ancient Things
In Ancient Greece’s complex poetic traditions, Maenads were consorts of Dionysus. Son of Zeus, Dionysus was the Greek god of wine, ecstasy and liberation from one’s every daily consciousness. As followers of Dionysis, Maenads played loud music and took part in ecstatic dances and orgies. They dressed in thin flowing robes, panther skins, and wore wreathes of ivy or even snakes on their heads.  
Joke-of-the-day
A monastery decided to start a fish and chips store. When the store opened, a client comes in, and asks one of the clerics: are you the fish fryer?
Oh, no, the cleric answers, I'm the chip monk!
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
WRITING A SCREENPLAY
One page of an average screenplay equals about one minute of screen time. Therefore, the script for a typical feature film should be about a hundred pages long. In fact, many studios and producers won't look at screenplays much longer than a hundred pages.   
Yeah, It Really Happened
SPARTANBURG, S.C. - A thief in South Carolina's Spartanburg County allegedly stole nearly $19,000 worth of Girl Scout cookies from a storage facility, police said. An incident report filed this week said the thief made off with 450 cases of Girl Scout cookies -- worth an estimated $18,900 -- from Carey Moving and Storage, Inc., WSPA-TV, Spartanburg, S.C., reported Wednesday.
The cases contained about 5,400 boxes of cookies. Brian Carey, the owner of the storage company, said surveillance footage from the facility has been handed over to investigators, adding that his company performs strict drug and background checks and if it turns out that one of his employees was involved in the theft, such behavior won't be tolerated. Carey also he would order more cookies to help reimburse the Girl Scouts for the loss. A spokeswoman for the Girl Scouts of South Carolina said the cookies would have been sold at cookie booths across the 22 counties throughout the state. Proceeds from the cookie sales would have gone to help local scouts plan trips and organize community events.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Humans can see less than 1 percent of the electromagnetic spectrum and hear less than 1 percent of the acoustic spectrum.
  • The existence of the rainbow depends on the conical photoreceptors in your eyes. To animals without cones the rainbow does not exist. So you don't just look at a rainbow, you create it.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
1-7
National Cheerleading Week:
National Ghostwriters Week
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week
Universal Human Beings Week
2-5
American Council on Education:
2-19
Iditarod Race
3-9 
Severe Weather Preparedness Week
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Save Your Vision Week
Telecommunicator Appreciation Week
Read an E-Book Week
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Women in Construction Week
Newspaper in Education Week
National School Breakfast Week
Share A Story - Shape A Future Week

Today Is                                                                      
Crispus Attucks Day 
     Boston Massacre, British troops kill 5 in crowd. Crispus Attackus 
     becomes 1st black to die for American freedom 1770
Peace Corp Day
Unique Names Day
~Brazil:  ~French West Indies: ~Malta: Carnival

Today’s Events through History  
1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia►1623
1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston►1743
English king Henry VII hires John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) to explore►1496
Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks►1992
Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads►1856
Haifa: 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the 
     Haifa bus 37 massacre►2003
Mecca: 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage►2001
Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar►1985
Nikola Tesla describes the process of the ball lightning formation►1904
Samuel Colt manufactures 1st pistol, 34-caliber "Texas" model►1836
Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes►1558
Stapler patented in England by C H Gould►1868

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 70’s
Dean Stockwell, actor (Werewolf of Washington, Blue Velvet) is 77
James Sikking, actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser) is 79
In their 50’s
Penn Jillette, magician (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead) is 58
Marsha Warfield, comedian/actress (Roz-Night Court) is 59

Remembered for being born today
David II Bruce, King of Scots [1324-1371]
Jack Cassidy, Richmond Hill VA, actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She) [1927-1976]
Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization [1893-1970]
Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China [1898-1976]
Andy Gibb, Manchester England, singer/TV host (Solid Gold) [1958-1988]
Rex Harrison, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle) [1908-1990]
Gerardus Mercator, map maker [1512-1594]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
John Belushi, comedian (Sat Night Live)-drug overdose-1982-at 33
Patsy Cline, country singer (Crazy)-plane crash-1963-at 30
Billy DeWolfe, actor (Good Morning World)- lung cancer-1974-at 67
Richard Kiley, American actor- bone marrow disease-1999-at 76
Joseph Stalin, Premier of the Soviet Union (1941-53)-stroke-1953-at 73
Henry Wharton, English writer-1695-at 31

Answer: Brain Teasers
Concrete floors are very hard to crack!
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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