10/6/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 41/ Day: 279    
Today: L 32°…H 54°… Ave. humidity: 48%
Wind: ave:   15mph; Gusts:  32mph  
Average Low: 35° Record Low:  18° (1912)
Average High: 67° Record High:  81° (1987)

Quote of the Day



Today’s Historical Highlights
"Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC) …1927
13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)…1683
1st train robbery in US (Reno Brothers take $13,000) …1866
American Library Association organized in Philadelphia…1876
Colorado Avalanche (former Que Nordiques) 1st NHL game, beat Detroit…1995
Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine…1956
Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark end of hippies…1967
JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters…1961
Last battle of Revolutionary War- siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown…1781
LSD made illegal in US…1966

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



My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Windy and cool Saturday. Should be warming up tomorrow. This morning about 5am my furnace came on for the first time this season. Time to replace the ol’ furnace filter. I am so glad I am not in the areas of the country that are having snow. I’m just not ready yet. Pine Ridge Rez had a real blizzard. So hard on people who have so little already. A friend in Idaho posted some blizzard pics from the mountains up there. I know it’s going to get to Flag someday, but please, not yet.
 
While the ‘homeland’ government is in a partial shutdown, obviously the Navy Seals are not. Two major attacks today against Al Qaeda—one on Somalia and one in Libya. Let’s hear from the idiots in DC about why these Seals are in non-pay status.
 
I finally reached my breaking point with Internet Explorer. It has gotten so slow in bringing up sites, while my chrome and safari both do things much faster. To do this blog I have a bunch of sites I ‘borrow’ stuff from. So I just added Firefox and got rid of IE. Things are going much faster.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Three brothers share a family sport: A non-stop marathon The oldest one is fat and short And trudges slowly on The middle brother's tall and slim And keeps a steady pace The youngest runs just like the wind, Speeding through the race "He's young in years, we let him run," The other brothers say "'Cause though he's surely number one, He's second, in a way."
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias
If you have an irrational fear of... Fatigue
You're suffering from... Ponophobia Greek ponos 'toil, fatigue'
If you have an irrational fear of... Fearing
You're suffering from... Phobophobia Greek phóbos ‘fear, panic’
OK Then…



Harper’s Index 
  • Average amount a Mississippi bills Medicare for treating pneumonia with no complications: $4,552
  • Average amount a Philadelphia hospital does: $79,007

Darwin Awards 2013  
individuals who have contributed to human evolution by self-selecting themselves out of the gene pool via death or sterilization via their own (unnecessarily foolish) actions.
Eighth Place 
In Detroit, a 41-year-old man got stuck and drowned in two feet of water after squeezing head first through an 18-inch-wide sewer grate to retrieve his car keys. 
Unusual Fact of the Day
Since 1930, there have been fewer than 10 left-handed catchers in Major League Baseball.

Joke-of-the-day
A group of doctors were out duck hunting, when a large bird flew overhead.
The family doctor raised his gun to shoot, but then lowered his gun saying "I am not sure that is a duck."
The Psychiatrist raised his gun, but then lowered it again saying “I know it's a duck, but I'm not sure that it knows it's a duck."
The surgeon raises his gun and blasts the bird out of the sky. He turns to the pathologist and says "Go see if that was a duck."
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
THE PSYCHOTHERAPY RULE
It is time to stop psychotherapy when you forget your appointment and don't feel bad about it.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
ASHEVILLE, S.C. - A South Carolina couple who wanted their wedding guests to remember their ceremony as the "most fun" time rode zip lines down the aisle. Lauren and Ben Youngkin, who wed Saturday at the Crown Plaza in Asheville, said they did not warn their wedding guests before they showed up on zip lines, complete with harnesses, helmets and carabineers in addition to their formal attire, WHNS-TV, Greenville, reported Monday.
"Zip-lining isn't omnipresent in our life, but, we have a good time. We like to laugh, and we like for everyone else to laugh, too. At our expense," Ben Youngkin said. The couple said their zip line scheme was aimed at amusing their wedding guests. "The most important thing about the wedding, we wanted people to come away from the wedding and say, 'that was one of the most fun times I've ever had,'" Lauren Youngkin said.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The biggest canyons in the world are under water. Beneath the Bering Sea off Alaska there are seven giant canyons: Bering Canyon, 240 miles long; Navarin Canyon, 60 miles wide; Zhemchung Canyon, 9000 feet deep. In comparison, the Grand Canyon in Arizona is only 10 miles wide, one mile deep and 250 miles long.
  • The Sahara, one of the world’s largest and driest deserts with sand up to thirty feet deep was once a land with flowing rivers, humid swamps and lush fields. Cave painting, 9,000 years old, found in the heart of the Sahara, show men herding cattle and hunting lions and hippos. About 2,000 years ago the cave painters, herders and animals left because the area that was rapidly becoming the desert we know today.
  • Seeds from a wild flower, the Arctic Lupine, found in Alaska, have grown in the lab after being frozen in the ground for 10,000 years.
  • The bristle-cone pine, which grows in the deserts of Nevada and California, is the oldest living species in the United States. Some are believed to be 4600 years old and can live to be 5500 years old.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
1-7
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo
3-10
No Salt Week
4-7
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
National Storytelling Weekend
4-10
World Space Week
5-6
Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend 
6-12
National Physicians Assistant Week
Emergency Nurses Week
Fire Prevention Week
Great Books Week
Mental Illness Awareness Week
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week
National Work From Home Week
Nuclear Medicine Week 
Customer Service Week
Fall Astronomy Week
Financial Planning Week
Kids' Goal Setting Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
World Rainforest Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Change A Light Day
·        Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day
·        Ecological Debt Day
·        Intergeneration Day
·        International African Diaspora Day
·        Jackie Mayer Rehab Day former Miss America and stroke survivor
·        Mad Hatter Day
·        National German-American Day
·        World Communion Day
~~~~
·        Egypt: Armed Forces Day (1973 closing of Suez Canal)
·        Ireland: Ivy Day (Lá an Eidhneáin): in memory of the prominent nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell

Today’s Events through History  
American Chess Association organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC) …1857
Mormon Church outlaws polygamy…1890
Nabisco Foods invents Cream of Wheat…1893
Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House…1979
Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon…1959
Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture…1889
Zoological Gardens opens in SF…1940

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Britt Ekland, Swedish actress (Wicker Man, Asylum) is 71
Elisabeth Shue, actress (Cocktail, Adv in Babysitting) is 50

Remembered for being born today
James McGill, Scottish-Canadian businessman and philanthropist [1744-1813]
Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano [1820-1887]
George Westinghouse, entrepreneur and engineer [1846-1914]
Carol Lombard [Jane Alice Peters], actress (My Man Godfrey, In Name Only) [1908-1942]
Janet Gaynor, actress (Sunrise, A Star Is Born) [1906-1984]
Thor Heyerdahl, Norway, anthropologist/explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku) [1914-2002]
Fred Travalena, comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell) [1942-2009]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate…1892…@83
Bette Davis, US actress (All About Eve, White Mama)…1989…@81
Robert Lynd [YY] [Roibéard Ó Floinn], Irish writer/critic (News Chronicle)…1949…@70
Nelson Riddle, American bandleader…cardiac arrest…1985…@64
 [Mohammed] Anwar al-Sadat [محمد أنور السادا], pres Egypt…assassinated…1981…@62

Brain Teasers
The hands on a clock (hour, minute, and second).
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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10/5/13


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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 40/ Day: 277   
Today: H 53°…L 30°…Ave. humidity: 55%
Wind: ave:   10mph; Gusts:  22mph  
Average High: 68° Record High:  80° (1991)
Average Low: 35° Record Low:  14° (1969)

Quote of the Day



Today’s Historical Highlights
"Meet the Press" premieres on radio…1945
1st Little Orphan Annie-strip appears in NYC Daily News…1924
1st Presidential address televised from White House- Harry Truman…1947
Chief Joseph surrenders, ending Nez Perce War…1877
City of Anaheim was founded…1857
Foundation of Concepción, Chile…1550
French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France…1793
London Sunday Times reports Israel is stocking nuclear arms…1986
Monty Python's Flying Circus begins airing on BBC…1969
PBS becomes a network…1970
Tom Ridge resigns as Governor of PA to become Homeland Security Advisor…2001

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



My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Well the wind blew in some much lower temperatures. Amazing how a 10° drop feels after so many nice days.
 
Who is to blame for the shutdown? According to some idiot Congressman at the WWII memorial, it is the park rangers who should be ashamed. And this guy voted against the budget. After everything he said to this park ranger hit the internet, now he says what he meant was that the Park Service should be ashamed for closing the memorial. Now Obama has cancelled his trip to several international conferences that are working on trade agreements so he can deal with the children in Congress. Lots of world leaders must be shaking their heads. Who is to blame? Every elected official…including the local ones who are not demanding that the Congress approve a budget.  
 
Getting tired of all the news on the shutdown. Seems none of the major news channels want to cover much more than the politics. I am glad to hear the stories that the cops pay status in the DC shooting. Important enough to protect our politicians, just not important enough to be paid. I still a little concerned that killing the woman was necessary, but I’ve never been in a situation like that, so shouldn’t be pointing fingers.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Below are 3 pairs of words. Find the words that fit in the middle of each pair of words to create two new words, one front-ended and one back-ended.
Example: EVER - ______ - HORN   Answer: EVER - GREEN - HORN
1. GRAND - _________ - OUT 2. QUARTER - ___________ - MIND 3. HAIR - _______________ - FIRE

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

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias
If you have an irrational fear of... Eyes, opening one's
You're suffering from... Optophobia Greek opt ‘eyes’ 
If you have an irrational fear of... Failure
You're suffering from... Kakorrhaphiophobia Kako- bad, evil
Interesting Disney



Harper’s Index    
  • Net amount contributed to Medicare by immigrants between 2002 and 2009: $115,000,000,000
  • Net amount drawn out by native-born citizens over the same period: $28,000,000,000

Unusual Fact of the Day
Two of America's greatest national symbols were made overseas: The Liberty Bell was cast in England and the Statue of Liberty was crafted in France.


Joke-of-the-day
A frustrated father told a work colleague: “When I was a youngster, I was disciplined by being sent to my room without supper. But in my son’s room, he has his own color TV, computer, games console, cell phone and CD player.”
“So what do you do?”
The father replied: “I send him to my room!”
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
ANKLE INJURIES
If the patient arrives at a hospital hopping on their good foot, the bad ankle is almost certainly not broken.   
Yeah, It Really Happened
LONDON, Ontario - A cheerleading coach at the University of Western Ontario in Canada said the team's captain was ticketed for leading a street-side cheer during homecoming. Coach David Tracey said team captain Max Gow led a cheer routine in the street in a student neighborhood in London while walking to Saturday's homecoming game, the QMI Agency reported Monday. Tracey said police approached as three male cheerleaders were throwing a female cheerleader into the air. The officers told them they could not perform the routine in the street and Gow was issued a $136 ticket.
"It's homecoming. Are we not supposed to generate spirit? We're the cheerleading team for goodness sake," Tracey said.
The ticket said Gow was "causing a nuisance in the street by conducting a cheerleading performance." A police spokeswoman said she could not comment on the ticket until speaking with the issuing officer. Tracey said the street was already filled with people when the cheerleaders started performing. "If were truly blocking the street and tying up traffic and causing some kind of public disturbance then maybe I'd almost understand it, but not in this scenario," Tracey said.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Pickles have been around since ancient times, although there is some disagreement as to when exactly in history people started eating them. Some believe the first pickle was created in Mesopotamia in 2400 B.C.E. Others believe it was as early as 2030 B.C.E.
  • Cleopatra ate pickles because she believed they were one of the things that helped her stay beautiful.
  • Explorers like Christopher Columbus and Amerigo Vespucci used pickles to help prevent scurvy amongst the crews of their ships. 
  • H.J. Heinz used pins shaped like pickles to draw customers to his booth at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago. 
  • The U.S. government commandeered 40% of all pickles made in the U.S. during WWII so that they could be used in rations for the soldiers.
  • Several famous people throughout history are reported to have been or to be pickle fans including Queen Elizabeth I, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Bill Cosby, Fran Drescher, and Ed Koch.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
1-7
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo
3-10
No Salt Week
4-7
Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta
National Storytelling Weekend
4-10
World Space Week
5-6
Fallen Firefighters Memorial Weekend 

Today Is                                                                      
·        Balloons Around the World Day
·        Cephalopod Awareness Day
·        Inter-American Water Day
·        World Card Making Day
·        World Teachers Day
~~~~
·        Portugal: Republic Day (1910)

Today’s Events through History  
1st documented recovery meeting of Narcotics Anonymous is held…1953
Hollywood Black Friday: 6month strike by set decorators is a bloody riot at Warner 
     Brothers' studios…1945
Italian troops occupy Tripoli…1911
Mass demonstrations lead to resignation of Serbian strongman Slobodan 
    Milošević-Bulldozer Revolution…2000
Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone (approx 60,000 die)…1864
World War I first aerial combat resulting in a kill…1914

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Bill Dana, comedian/actor (Jose Jimenez) is 89
Steve Miller, rocker (Abracadabra, Space Cowboy) is 70
Daniel Baldwin, actor, producer and director is 53
Guy Pearce, actor and musician is 46
Kate Winslet, actress (Titanic) is 38

Remembered for being born today
Jonathan Edwards, theologian/philosopher (Original Sin) [1703-1758]
Chester A. Arthur, 21st American President [1829-1886]
Larry Fine, [Laurence Feinberg], PA, comedian (3 Stooges) [1902-1975]
Allen Ludden, TV host (Password) [1917-1981]
Ray Kroc, fast food entrepreneur (MacDonalds) 1902-1984]
Gail Davis, actress (Annie Oakley) [1925-1997]
Jeff Conaway, actor (Bobby-Taxi, Loving) [1950-2011]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Mike Mansfield, Senator MT…2001…@98
Rodney Dangerfield, comedian…2004…@82
Jacques Offenbach, German-born composer…gout…1880…@61
Steve Jobs, co-founder/CEO of Apple… pancreatic cancer…2011…@56
Tecumseh, Shawnee-chief/English Gen…in Battle of Thames…1813…@45

Brain Teasers
1. GRAND - STAND - OUT 2. QUARTER - MASTER - MIND 3. HAIR - BRUSH - FIRE
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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