Nov 13, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 46/ Day: 318   

Today: High   41°…Low 22°

Records: High   70°(1967)…Low 3°(1898)

Averages: High  52° Low 24°

Wind: average:   3mph; Gusts:  21mph

Today’s average humidity:  57%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

"Sheik," starring Rudolph Valentino, is released—1921
1st modern sit-down strike, Hormel meat packers, Austin, MN—1933
American Revolutionary forces capture Montreal—1775
America's 1st saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, beatified—1938
Black Renaissance begins Harlem NY—1922
Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh—1970
False fingernails 1st sold—1952
Final Al Capp comic strip of "Li'l Abner" (1934-77) —1977
Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18—1942
Mt Rainier in Washington State erupts—1843
US issues 1st gold certificates—1865
VP Spiro Agnew calls TV executives "impudent snobs"—1970
Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released—1940
World Wide Web first began—1987

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

A chilly ‘holiday’ Monday.

 

Slowly, very slowly, the election results are being published for our two largest and slowest counties. One Congressional race is still in question. Lots of finger pointing that all boils down to our complicated voting system with early ballots and provisional ballots. Anything it seems to make the voting process more difficult for many.

 

Alert! If you are going to do something wrong…don’t use any e-mail service to discuss it. Seems logical but so many high profile people just don’t get it.

 

I don’t know if this is an OMG story or a WTF story: today twenty states filed citizen driven petitions to President Obama to ‘peacefully secede’ from the US. Thankfully, AZ is not in the list but Colorado is.  It doesn’t really mean anything legal, but sure is crazy. Turns out similar things happened after the 2004 and 2008 elections.

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences: 6 letter anagrams

What are the missing words?

The ______ saw the ______ after it landed on the barbed wire and let out a loud ______ .

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: Mayonnaise

• Just dab a little onto the dull key and leave it for five minutes or so. Then wipe off the mayo, and buff with a different cloth until the ivory shines.
• Mayonnaise has some delightfully emollient qualities. It’ll soften and smooth hair for a sleek and chic look that can go straight from the runway to the kitchen.
• Apply a little mayo to problem areas like the elbows, knees, or your face. Leave it on for ten to fifteen minutes, then buff off with a damp towel or washcloth. Then use your normal moisturizer or lotion to lock in the freshness.
• Rub a little bit of mayo onto the crayon mark and let it sit for five to ten minutes. Then watch it magically disappear when you wipe it away with a damp cloth.
• Try dipping your nails into a mayo bath. Soak your nails, cuticles, and the rest of your fingertip in some mayonnaise. Then rinse. Voila! Stronger nails. You'll be opening bottles and clamshell packaging bare-handed from now on.
• Removing tar, sap, and sticker residue…Cover the mess with some mayonnaise and let it sit for several minutes. Then wipe it off with a soft, vehicle-approved cloth
• If your wooden furniture is covered in water rings, try to buff them out with some mayonnaise. 
• Rub a little bit of mayo onto your matte and dull leaf. Buff it to a shine, then you'll have the shiniest ficus leaf in the world.

Old Saying Explained:

CROCODILE TEARS…These are an insincere display of grief or sadness. It comes from the old belief that a crocodile wept (insincerely!) if it killed and ate a man.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Laverne & Shirley - "Making Our Dreams Come True" by Norman Gimbel and Charles Fox

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Panda Mating Fails - Veterinarian Takes Over

Sacred Mountains Around the World:

Celtic Music:

Paul Mounsey-Celtic Music

Harper’s Index:         

Number of bullets fired at human targets by German police in 2011: 36

Ruminations:

Never trust a woman who uses a baby voice to talk to anything other than a baby.

Unusual Fact of the Day:

Charles Lindbergh was named Time magazine’s first “Man of the Year” in 1927. But what turned into an annual tradition for the publication actually started as an apology: Time had embarrassingly left Lindbergh off the cover after his landmark solo flight and "Man of the Year" was their apology.

Found on You Tube: 

• The Sheik (1921) Rudolph Valentino

• Walt Disney - Fantasia - Mickey The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Joke-of-the-day:

After 17 years of marriage, a man dumped his wife for a younger woman. The downtown luxury apartment was in his name and he wanted to remain there with his new love so he asked the wife to move out and then he would buy her another place. The wife agreed to this, but asked that she be given 3 days on her own there to pack up her things.

While he was gone the first day, she lovingly put her personal belongings into boxes and crates and suitcases. On the second day she had the movers come and collect her things. On the third day she sat down for the last time at their candlelit dining table, soft music playing in the background, and feasted on a pound of shrimp and a bottle of chardonnay. When she had finished, she went into each room and deposited a few of the resulting shrimp shells into the hollow of the curtain rods. She then cleaned up the kitchen and left.

The husband came back with his new girl and all was bliss for the first few days. Then it started, slowly but surely. Clueless, the man could not explain why the place smelled so bad. They tried everything; cleaned and mopped and aired the place out. Vents were checked for dead rodents, carpets were steam cleaned, air fresheners were hung everywhere. Exterminators were brought in, the carpets were replaced, and on it went.

Finally, they could take it no more and decided to move. The moving company arrived and did a very professional packing job, taking everything to their new home...including the curtain rods.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

CODE BLUE…In war, you don't hear the bullet that gets you. In the hospital, if you hear a code blue, it's not for you.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

On November 17 Jennifer Hoffman and Marisa Gallegos, founders of Esme & Eve Photography, along with five other brave women, plan to jump from an airplane near Lake Elsinore, California, wearing nothing but parachutes and their lingerie. The jump is part of Esme & Eve's "Be Bold. Take the Leap" initiative, in which they urge women "to face their fears, take a risk and push against whatever is holding them back from carrying out their dreams."

This will be the second skydive Hoffman and Gallegos are taking together, and this time around, they wanted to do it on a larger scale by inviting others to join. Gallegos admitted, however, that the idea to skydive in nothing but their skivvies was never part of their original plan.

When the pair arrived at the skydive location for their first jump last May, it was more than 100 degrees outside. Neither of the women was particularly excited about putting on the heavy, bulky jumpsuits, so they decided to go without.

"When we landed, it just hit us how powerful the experience was," Gallegos said. "We needed to come back and do it in a big way with a bunch of other women that have all faced certain fears and insecurities and moved past them. It's all about empowering them. Life is about evolving and moving past things so we can move forward."

They thought it was best to do the jump in their underwear because "it was more about baring your soul, and being OK with it, and not being ashamed," Hoffman said.

Somewhat Useless Information   

• The rockets mentioned in "The Star Spangled Banner" were less effective than bombs. They had a shorter range and were so inaccurate that they had to be abandoned as weapons after the War of 1812. Not until World War II did rockets become important.

• The Pentagon is the world's largest office building, a city in itself. With an area of 6,500,00 square feet the Pentagon has a Main Street lined with shops, restaurants and its own post office.  

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week ►Pursuit of Happiness Week

11-17 

American Education Week ►Geography Awareness Week ►National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week

12-18  

National Global Entrepreneurship Week ►World Kindness Week ►National Young Reader's Week

Today Is                                                                      

National Indian Pudding Day
National Young Reader's Day

Today’s Events through History  

1st artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, MA—1946

1st condom commercial on BBC TV—1990

1st modern elastic brassiere patented by Mary Phelps Jacob—1913

1st shipment of canned pineapple from Hawaii—1895

Ben Franklin writes "Nothing . . . certain but death & taxes"—1789

Bob Petit (St Louis Hawks) becomes 1st NBAer to score 20,000 points—1964

Carl B Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland OH) —1967

Conference regarding alliances is held for the next four days between 

     representatives of the British in Pennsylvania and the Miami, Shawnee 

     and "Six Nations" tribes. —1747

English Lady Jane Grey/Bishop Cranmer accused of high treason—1553

James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads 

     to his study of the subject he eventually calls hypnosis—1841

Phenomenal meteor shower just before sunrise is seen all over North America. 

     This event is recorded on Kiowa picture calendars as the most significant 

     event of the year—1833

Ronald Reagan in NY announces his candidacy for president—1979

Significant battle at Sheriffmuir during Jacobite rebellion. Battle inconclusive 

     but Government forces able halt advance of Jacobite army lead by Scottish 

     Earl of Mar—1715

War on Terrorism: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. 

     Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners 

     suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United 

     States. —2001

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Garry Marshall, NYC, producer (Laverne & Shirley) is 78

In their 60’s

Joe Mantegna, actor (Criminal Minds) is 65

In their 50’s

Whoopi Goldberg[Caryn Johnson], actress, comedian (Color Purple, Ghost, The View) will be 57

Christopher Noth, actor (Sex in the City, Law & Order) is 58

In their 40’s

Gerard Butler, Scottish actor is 43

Jimmy Kimmel, late night TV host is 45

Vinny Testaverde, NFL quarterback (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens) is 49

Steve Zahn, actor is 45

Remembered for being born today

John AB Dahlgren, US Union lt adm/inventor (Civil war Dahlgren-cannon) (1809-1870)

Jack Elam, Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)(1920-2003)

John Lowry, Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall) b. 1882

Richard Mulligan, Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus) (1932-2000)

Dack Rambo, Delano California, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas) (1941-1994)

Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh, Scotland, author (Treasure Island), (1850-1894)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker— tuberculosis—1779—at 61

Vine Deloria, Jr., Native American author, theologian, historian, and activist— aneurysm—2005—at 72

Henry the Navigator, prince of Portugal—1460—at 66

"Alvin" Junior Samples, country singer (Hee Haw)— heart attack—1983—at 56

Karen Silkwood, labor union activist—car crash under suspicious circumstances—1974—at 29

Answer: Anagram sentence

The hikers saw the shrike after it landed on the barbed wire and let out a loud shriek .

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  §

Nov 12, 2012

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Flagstaff Almanac:  Week: 46/ Day:    

Today: High   37°…Low 10°

Records: High   73°(1973)…Low 7°(1950)

Averages: High  52° Low 24°

Wind: average:   2mph; Gusts:  8mph

Today’s average humidity:  63%

Quote of the Day:

Today’s Historical Highlights:

1st known photo of Loch Ness monster (or whatever) is taken—1933

1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens—1927

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, author expelled from Soviet Writers Union—1969

Battle of Guadalcanal began—1942

Ellis Island, immigration station in NY Harbor, closed—1954

General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks—1775

Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland—1938

Largest observed iceberg, 208 by 60 miles, 1st sighted—1956

Pres Carter announces immediate halt to all imports of Iranian oil & freezes 

     Iranian assets—1979

Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage—1984

US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of

     civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai—1969 

♪  ♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪. ♪   

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

Free Rambling Thoughts:   

What a shock…waking up to 10° this morning. Hard to call this ‘fall weather’. We did finally warm up to a blistering 37°…where’s my swimming trunks and beach towel?

 

I couldn’t believe it when Candy Crowley began talking about the 2016 election on her program this morning. Depressing. Let’s get this country moving forward, but not that far forward. Fareed also had some great ideas for our election system. Update it to make it easier for citizens to vote. Surprised to hear that international poll watchers at some sites in our country were told to leave, or threatened with arrest. Geez…I remember when Carter, Ford, and Clinton were part of international teams in Iraq, and other countries making sure the elections were following the rules. What has our country come to?

Game  Center: (answers at the end of post)

Anagram Sentences: 6 letter anagrams

What are the missing words?

The ______ had to ______ behind to help secure their position, while the ______ were conducting further bombing runs.

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Unusual Uses for Everyday Things: LEMONS

You can remove mold by rubbing lemon juice where you see it. Mold should dissipate soon after!

You can make your own secret spy invisible ink with lemon juice.Take a q-tip and soak it in lemon juice. Use the Q-tip to write on the paper. Once the lemon juice is dry you can use heat from a lamp to reveal a secret message!

Use 1 cup of lemon juice in your wash to boost the effectiveness of your laundry detergent.

Use lemon juice to get blond highlights, just apply and then sit out side. Repeat the process over a weeks time for best results.

Lemons can give you electricity! 

1. roll the lemon to get the juices
2. Cut 2 slits in the lemon
3. in one slit place a dime, the other use a penny.
4. Now you have electricity from a lemon, you can test how much with a multimeter.

Old Saying Explained:

COPPER…The old word cop meant grab or capture so in the 19th century policemen were called coppers because they grabbed or caught criminals.

Ok, then?

TV Theme Songs you may remember:

Night Court - Jack Elliott

Read This Headline Carefully!!

Prostitutes Appeal to Pope

Sacred Mountains Around the World:

Celtic Music:

Celtic music and King of Dance

Harper’s Index:         

Number of hours worked annually by the average Greek worker: 2032 (US: 1797)Rank of this number among the highest in the Eurozone: 1

Ruminations:

It looks like some of our employees are finally taking their health seriously. A few of them were outside drinking Diet Coke during their smoke break.

Unusual Fact of the Day:

The U.S. hockey team did not defeat the USSR in the gold medal game of the 1980 Olympics. The so-called "Miracle on Ice" was actually a semi-final game, and the Americans had to go on to play Finland for the gold.

Found on You Tube: 

• Nadia Comaneci 1976 Olympics

• Brian Hyland - Sealed with a kiss

Joke-of-the-day:

Q: How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb?

A: Two. One to assure the public that everything possible is being done while the other screws it into a water faucet.  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SWARMING BEES…Honeybees will start to congregate in a horseshoe-shaped pattern on the front of the hive three days before they start to swarm.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

MINNEAPOLIS - Police in Minnesota said a suspected gang member was arrested over tattoo of a pig in a police uniform being shot. Hennepin County prosecutors said Antonio Jenkins Jr. posted a picture on Facebook of a tattoo on his right bicep depicting a pig in the uniform of Minneapolis police Officer Jeffrey Seidel being shot through the head by a person, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported Friday. Jenkins, a suspected member of the Bloods street gang currently on probation for armed robbery, was arrested Thursday and charged with making a terroristic threat for the benefit of a gang. "It's pretty crude and pretty direct. The officer works in the area. [Jenkins] sent it out on Facebook. That's a lot," Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said. Jenkins allegedly told police the pig was wearing Seidel's uniform because he was angry at the officer over an August 2011 event. The criminal complaint does not describe the incident.  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• If you have 3 quarters, 4 dimes, and 4 pennies, you have $1.19. You also have the largest amount of money in coins without being able to make change for a dollar.

• The numbers '172' can be found on the back of the U.S. $5 dollar bill in the bushes at the base of the Lincoln Memorial.

• President Kennedy was the fastest random speaker in the world with upwards of 350 words per minute.

• Odontophobia is the fear of teeth.

• In the early days of the telephone, operators would pick up a call and use the phrase, "Well, are you there?". It wasn't until 1895 that someone suggested answering the phone with the phrase "number please?"

• Cats sleep 16 to 18 hours per day.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

7-13

Dear Santa Letter Week ►Pursuit of Happiness Week

11-17 

American Education Week ►Geography Awareness Week ►National Hunger & Homeless Awareness Week

12-18  

National Global Entrepreneurship Week ►World Kindness Week ►National Young Reader's Week

Today Is                                                                      

National Pizza With The Works Except Anchovies Day
Veteran's Day (Observed)
World Orphans Day
Mexico: Postman Day's  

Today’s Events through History  

1st Sunday football game in Philadelphia (previously illegal) —1933

Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8—1923

American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 on its way to the Dominican 

     Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International 

     Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground—2001

Branch of the Exchange National Bank in Chicago, Illinois opens the first 

     ten drive-up teller windows—1946

Colonel Henry Bouquet calls upon the Shawnee, at his camp on the Muskingum 

     River, to deliver all of their remaining prisoners. He asks the Shawnees to 

     treat them gently—1764

Election to establish constitution for the Tuolumne Band of Me-Wok Indians 

     of the Tuolumne Rancheria is authorized by the Secretary of the Interior—1935

English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism—1555

Ferdinand Marcos elected president of Philippines—1965

Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine—1987

Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed 

     garment that bears his name—1859

Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany—1933

Nobel for literature awarded to Eugene O'Neill—1936

Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN) —1945

Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the English Parliament—1439

Scientists perform 1st artificial synthesis of a live cell—1970

Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the 

     European sovereign debt crisis—2011

Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform 

     as an anesthetic—1847

South Africa suspended from UN General Assembly over racial policies—1974

Supreme Court declares Arkansas law banning teaching evolution in public 

     schools unconstitutional—1968

Theodore W Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry—1915

Tibetan troops occupy Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese Tang Dynasty, 

     for fifteen days—764

World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors) —1900

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 70’s

Charles Manson, Cin Oh, criminal (Tate-Labianco) is 78

In their 60’s

Brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini) is 69

Al Michaels, Bkln, sportscaster (ABC Monday Night Baseball/Football) is 68

Neil Young, Toronto, singer/songwriter (Cosby, Sills & Young) is 67

In their 50’s

Nadia Comaneci, [Gheorghe], Romania, gymnist (1st 10/Olymp-gold-1976) is 51

Megan Mullally, actress (Will & Grace) is 54

In their 40’s

Sammy Sosa, baseball outfielder (Chicago Cubs) is 44

In their 30’s

Anne Hathaway, American actress is 30

Ryan Gosling, Canadian actor is 32

Remembered for being born today

Bahá'u'lláh, Prophet Founder of the Bahá'í Faith (1817-1892)

Joseph Coors, CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery) (1917-2003)

Grace Kelly, Philadelphia Pa, actress (Rear Window)/Princess (Monaco), (1929-1982)

Jo Stafford, Coalinga California, singer (You Belong to me, Never Smile Again) (1917-2008)

Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Johnstown NY, suffragist (1815-1902)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Eve Arden, actress (Our Miss Brooks)—1990—at 82

Percival Lowell, amateur astronomer, founder of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, 

     Arizona—stroke—1916—at 61

St. Nicholas Owen (martyr), one of the Forty Martyrs of England and 

     Wales—1606—at 56ish

Penny Singleton, American actress (Blondie)—2003—at 95

Answer: Anagram sentence

The Marine had to remain behind to help secure their position, while the airmen were conducting further bombing runs.

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  §