Oct 4, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 40/ Day: 278   Today: High  78°…Low 41° Records: High   83°(1980)…Low 21°(1902) Averages: High  67°…Low 36°

Wind: average:   4mph;  Gusts:  20mph Today’s average humidity:  35%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

1976 - Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz resigns due to telling a racial joke

1931 - Dick Tracy comic strip by Chester Gould debuts

1927 - Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mt. Rushmore

1883 - Orient Express' 1st run, linking Turkey to Europe by rail

1675 - Christian Huygens patents pocket watch

1537 - The first complete English-language Bible (the Matthew Bible) is printed, 

            with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale  

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

Another prescribed burn near Flagstaff and another day of smoke settling in around town. I went for a walk late this morning, and returned home with my eyes burning a little. Not a pleasant feeling, even though the burns are supposed to help out on our fire danger in the future.

The debate is being held at the University of Denver, a beautiful campus with a great private university reputation. Some friends in Denver have posted that traffic is a mess on several freeways. Some talking head just said that both men will be talking to the people at home, since many don’t know what is going on. Really? I do know enough of what’s going on and I want to hear each candidate speak on specific topics with specific answers. NPR ran a great piece this morning about how debates work…informative and interesting.

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)

Returns tomorrow

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Charlotte Lee (USA) has 5,631 different rubber ducks, as of 10 April 2011, which she has been collecting since 1996.

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

I Am Stuck on Band-aid

Read This Sign Carefully!!

At an optometrist's office, "If you don't see what you're looking for, you've come to the right place."

Do you know what this word means?

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

retrophilia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

Feels So Good / Chuck Manglone 1978

Harper’s Index:         

Percentage of independent political spending on TV advertising in the past year that came from anonymous doners: 91

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Dartmouth College is older than the United States and was granted its original charter by the King of England. When the then governor of New Hampshire tried to amend the charter, and the College brought suit against the state of New Hampshire, the Supreme Court upheld the original charter, thereby limiting the power of states to interfere in private enterprises.

Found on You Tube: 

• The Great Buster Keaton

• What's my Line? Charlton Heston

Joke-of-the-day:

A young executive was leaving the office late one evening when he found the CEO standing in front of a shredder with a piece of paper in his hand.

"Listen," said the CEO, "this is a very sensitive and important document here, and my secretary has gone for the night. Can you make this thing work for me?"

"Certainly," said the young executive. He turned the machine on, inserted the paper, and pressed the start button.

"Excellent, excellent!" said the CEO, as his paper disappeared inside the machine. "I just need one copy..."  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

BUYING CHEESE FOR A PARTY…For a wine and cheese party, count on having one pound of cheese for every five guests.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

LANSING, Mich. - A Michigan State University professor who stripped off his clothes in class was taken to a hospital and is not being charged with a crime, the school said. The university said police received a call just after 1 p.m. Monday about a man shouting in the hallway of the school's engineering building and they soon discovered the man, a professor, had stripped all of his clothes off in front of his calculus class, ABC News reported Tuesday. "MSU police responded and took the man, a university professor, into protective custody and transported him to a local hospital," the school said. "No one was injured and the professor is not being charged with a crime." Students described the professor, whose name was not released, as "eccentric."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

•  In 2001, after hearing deterioration in his voice, listeners learned that conservative radio voice Rush Limbaugh was suffering from near-complete hearing loss. 

• Cochlear implant surgery at year's end helped to improve both his hearing ability and thus his ability to enunciate properly.

• Best known as red-haired, freckle-faced Danny on TV's The Partridge Family, Danny Bonaduce has found a second career as a radio personality. The job has sent him on a tour of the country, with stops in Philadelphia, Phoenix, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Los Angeles, in that order.

• Long-time Los Angeles disc jockey Jim Ladd provided the voice of the DJ for the 1987 album Radio KAOS by former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. He also appeared in videos for the album's singles and traveled with Waters on tour, performing the role in concerts from a radio booth high above the stage.

• When DJ Robert Smith first adopted the professional name Wolfman Jack, he shied away from public appearances because he couldn't decide how the Wolfman should look.

• The Rest of the Story's radio legend Paul Harvey is credited with coining the words "guesstimate" and "Reaganomics."

• Iva Ikuko Toguri was born in Los Angeles but found herself stranded in Tokyo while visiting relatives in 1941 after Pearl Harbor was bombed. She was drafted into work as a disc jockey for Radio Tokyo, and while the rest of the world called her Tokyo Rose, she only ever referred to herself as Orphan Ann.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7Customer Service Week
Financial Planning Week
National Newspaper Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo

3-10No Salt Week
World Space Week

Today Is                                                                      

Blessing of The Animals Day (aka Blessing of the Pets Day, World Pet Day)   Improve Your Office Day   Kanelbullens Dag (Cinnamon Roll Day)    Ten-Four Day
World Animal Day  National Golf Day
~Lesotho (Africa): Independence Day (1966 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

2000’s

2003 - Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: 21 Israelis, Jews and 

            Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded

1900’s

1992 - The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16 year civil war in Mozambique

1959 - 1st World Series game played west of St Louis (in LA)  set World 

            Series attendance record at 92,394

1957 - "Leave It to Beaver," debuts on CBS

1922 - For 1st time, entire World Series broadcast over radio 

1915 - Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado & Utah is established

1800’s

1883 - First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland

1881 - Edward Leveaux patents automatic player piano

1864 - New Orleans Tribune, 1st black daily newspaper, forms

1854 - Abraham Lincoln made his 1st political speech at Illinois State Fair

1838 - Elijah Hicks, and 748 Cherokee will be the second group of Cherokee to leave 

            the Tennessee Cherokee Agency area under their own supervision. They are

           part of the forced removal of the Cherokee to the Indian Territory. They will 

           arrive on January 4, 1839.

1600’s

1636 - 1st code of law for Plymouth Colony  

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 30’s

 Alicia Silverstone, SF California, actress (Clueless, Batman Forever) is 36

In their 40’s

Liev Schreiber, actor [X-Men Origins] is 45

In their 50’s

David W Harper, Abilene Tx, actor (Jim Bob-Waltons) is 51

In their 60’s

 Armand Assante, NYC, actor (Private Benjamin, Unfaithfully Yours) is 63

Susan Sarandon, actress [Thelma & Louise, Dead Man Walking] is 66

In their 70’s

Jackie Collins, London, British author (The Stud, Lucky) is 75

Anne Rice, New Orleans LA, author (Interview with a Vampire) is 71

In their 80’s

 Leroy Van Dyke, Spring Fork Mo, country singer (Walk on By) is 83

Remembered for being born today

Richard Cromwell, lord protector of England b. 1626

Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Delaware Ohio, (R) 19th pres b. 1822

Charlton Heston, Ill, actor (10 Commandments, Ben Hur, Planet of Apes) b. 1923

Buster [Joseph F] Keaton, actor (Navigator, Steamboat Bill, Jr) b. 1895

John B Kelly, Olympic champion rower/father of Grace Kelly b. 1889

Jan Murray, Bronx NY, comedian (Treasure Hunt, Who Killed Teddy Bear) b. 1916

Sidney Paget, British illustrator (Sherlock Holmes) b. 1860

Dottie West, country singer ["Here Comes My Baby"] b. 1932

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Gordon Cooper, American astronaut—heart failure—2004—at 77

Catherine Booth, the Mother of The Salvation Army—1890—at 61 

Sarsa Dengel [ሠረጸ ድንግል śarṣa dingil], Emperor of Ethiopia—food poisoning

     —1597—at 47

Janis Joplin, rock singer (Down on Me)—drug overdose—1970—at 27

Secretariat, Triple Crown horse— laminitis—1989—at 19

Anne Sexton, US poetess (Pulitzer 1967)—sucide—1974—at 45

Al Smith, American politician—heart attack—1944—at 70 

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

Love of all things past; a nostalgic enthusiasm for past fashions, trends, attitudes, and objects ("retro objects") (from the Latin retro = behind, back, backwards, i.e. in times past)

What is the rhyming answer?

 Returns tomorrow

Rebus

Green with envy

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  §

Oct 3, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  

Week: 40/ Day: 277   Today: High   78°…Low 35°

Records: High   82°(1991)…Low 18°(1971) Averages: High  67°…Low 36°
Wind: average:   9mph; Gusts:  25mphToday’s average humidity:  32%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s  Historical  Highlights:

2008 - The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed 

            by President Bush

1995 - OJ Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson & Ron Goldman

1992 - Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL

1971 - Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000

1932 - Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations

1913 - Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%)

1789 - Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

The forest service blew it today. They had a prescribed burn then the winds shifted. No problem with the fire, but the smoke came and settled in East Flagstaff. I got a text alert that this happened and that it was not a wildfire. That was good to know, but the smoke sure messed up any outside activity on this side of town. They say it will be gone tomorrow, just in time for another prescribed burn.

A sad day for AZ and the nation, when a border patrol agent was shot in Southern AZ, in a known drug corridor. It happened just after midnight when the agent went out to check the area on horseback when a movement sensor sounded that something was happening out in the desert. FBI and County Sheriff’s offices are mum saying they need time to investigate. I’ll wait to find out what really happened but hope that all involved work for more safety for the border patrol.

The debates are Wednesday…can’t wait to see how they work out.

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)

scoff at the Star Trek Vulcan (4,5)

Rebus:

Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Dedication: Guinness World Records:

Ann Atkin (UK) has 2,042 gnomes and pixies, as of March 2011, all of which live in her 1.6-ha (4-acre) Gnome Reserve in West Putford, Devon, UK. 

Ok, then?

Commercial Jingles you may remember:

Oscar Mayer Wieners and Oscar Mayer Bologna

Read This Sign Carefully!!

 On a front door, "Everyone on the premises is a vegetarian except the dog."

Do you know what this word means?

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

Oenophilia

Iconic Photographs:

Great Melodies:

Henry Mancini: Baby Elephant Walk

Harper’s Index:         

Number of people other than the President with the name Hussein to have entered the White House since 2010: 37

With the name Barack: 1

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Uganda is the youth capital of the world. More than half the people living there are under 15 years of age.

Found on You Tube: 

THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB 1960's INTROOriginal Mouseketeers Roll CallMickey Mouse Club: "Alma Mater"
 Caergwrle Castle - Flintshire North Wales

Joke-of-the-day:

 A champion jockey is about to enter an important race on a new horse. The horse's trainer meets him before the race and says,

"All you have to remember with this horse is that every time you approach a jump, you have to shout, "ALLLLEEE OOOP!" really loudly in the horse's ear. Providing you do that, you'll be fine".

The jockey thinks the trainer is mad but promises to shout the command. The race begins and they approach the first hurdle. The jockey ignores the trainer's ridiculous advice and the horse crashes straight through the center of the jump. 

They carry on and approach the second hurdle. The jockey, somewhat embarrassed, whispers "Aleeee ooop" in the horse's ear. The same thing happens -- the horse crashes straight through the center of the jump.

At the third hurdle, the jockey thinks, "It's no good, I'll have to do it" and yells, "ALLLEEE OOOP!" really loudly. Sure enough, the horse sails over the jump with no problems. This continues for the rest of the race, but due to the earlier problems the horse only finishes third.

The trainer is fuming and asks the jockey what went wrong. The jockey replies, 

"Nothing is wrong with me -- it's this bloody horse. What is he -- deaf or something?"

The trainer replies, "Deaf?? DEAF?? He's not deaf -- he's BLIND!"

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

ADJUSTING YOUR CAR SEAT…You should check your seat adjustment with your hands at the ten and two o'clock positions on the steering wheel. You should be close enough so that you can make almost a full half-turn of the wheel without having to lean forward or having your elbows touch your body.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

Chattanooga Times Free Press - David Driver reported that 1,600 turtles made a break for it after vandals tore down or stole metal fencing at his turtle farm in Summerville, Ga. Driver, who sells the turtles he raises to pet shops and to China, where they’re eaten, said the escaped reptiles—all native species such as common snappers, Eastern paints and yellow-bellied sliders—headed for nearby ponds and creeks, costing him the bulk of four years’ worth of work.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

The oldest president inaugurated was Reagan (age 69); the youngest was Kennedy (age 43). Theodore Roosevelt, however, was the youngest man to become president; he was 42 when he succeeded McKinley, who had been assassinated.

Vice presidents were originally the presidential candidates receiving the second-largest number of electoral votes. The Twelfth Amendment, passed in 1804, changed the system so that the electoral college voted separately for president and vice president. The presidential candidate, however, gradually gained power over the nominating convention to choose his own running mate.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

1-7Customer Service Week
Financial Planning Week
National Newspaper Week
Spinning & Weaving Week
Universal Children's Week
World Dairy Expo

3-10No Salt Week
World Space Week

Today Is                                                                      

Virus Appreciation Day
Balloons Around The World Day Child Health DayUN World Habitat Day~ Korea: National Foundation Day [Gaecheonjeol (Korean: 개천절)] (2333BC)

Today’s Events through History  

TV shows premiering this day

1961 - "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV

1961 - "Mr Ed" premieres

1955 - "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV

1955 - "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres

1954 - "Father Knows Best" premieres

1950 - 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah)

2000’s

2003 - Roy Horn of Siegfried & Roy is attacked by one of the shows tigers, 

           canceling the show for good.

1900’s

1997 - Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph

1974 - Pele retires as soccer player

1970 - Baseball umpires call their 1st strike

1963 - Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured

1957 - Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin

1941 - Nazi's blow up 6 synagogues in Paris

1935 - Italy invades Ethiopia

1929 - Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia

1908 - The Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey 

            Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.

1906 - SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy

1800’s

1873 - Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.

1863 - Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day

1849 - American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, 

           Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in 

           public before his death.

1700’s

1778 - Capt Cook anchors at Alaska

1600’s

1691 - English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland

1400’s

1430 - Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia

1200’s

1264 - Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Under 30

Ashlee Simpson, singer-songwriter, actress is 28

In their 40’s

Manny Martinez, San Pedro DE, outfielder (Seattle Mariners) is 42

Clive Owen, English actor is 48

Gwen Stefani,  singer-songwriter is 43

In their 50’s

Tommy Lee, American musician (Mötley Crüe) is 50

Al Sharpton [Alfred Charles], Brooklyn, New York, minister and civil rights 

     activist is 58

In their 60’s

 Roy Horn, Las Vegas entertainer (Siegfried & Roy) is 68

In their 70’s

Chubby Checker, [Ernest Evans], Phila, rock vocalist (Twist) is 71

Remembered for being born today

James Herriot [Alfred Wight], Sunderland, County Durham, veterinarian/novelist 

     (All Creatures Great and Small) b. 1916

Harvey Kurtzman, U.S. cartoonist and founding editor of Mad magazine b. 1924

Patrick Manson, "Father of tropical medicine" b. 1844

Charles Pedersen, UK, biochemist (Nobel 1987) b. 1904

John Ross [Guwisguwi], Chief of the Cherokee Nation b. 1790

Sophie Treadwell, American playwright and journalist b. 1885 

Stevie Ray Vaughan, Dallas TX, guitarist (Sky is Crying, Texas Flood) b. 1954

Thomas Wolfe, American novelist (Look Homeward Angel) b. 1900

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Charles Collingwood, newscaster (Chronicles)—cancer—1985—at 68

Saint Francis of Assisi—1226—at about 45

Dafydd ap Gruffyd [ˈdavɨ̞ð ap ˈɡrɨ̞fɨ̞ð], last monarch of Gwynnedd (North-Wales)

     —executed for treason by English King—1283—at 45

Black Hawk [Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak], (chief), Leader of the Sauk—1838—at 71

Elias Howe, American sewing machine pioneer—1867—at 48

Myles Standish, Plymouth Colony leader—1656—at 72

Roddy McDowall, English actor [Planet of the Apes]—lung cancer—1998—at 70

Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, Brit composer (Coronation March)—1953—at 69

Woodrow Wilson "Woodie" Guthrie, folk singer/guitarist— Huntington's disease

     —1967—at 55

Answers                                                                                                                                            

Do you know what this word means?

love, enjoyment, and appreciation of wine (from the Greek oinos = wine)

What is the rhyming answer?

Mock Spock

Rebus

Go up in smoke

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  §