6-9-13


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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 24/ Day: 153   Today: H 89°…L 48°
Wind: ave:   7mph; Gusts:  31mph  Ave. humidity:  26%
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Ave low
Ave high
Record low
Record high
39°
77°
24° (1950)
88° (1902)

Quote of the Day



Today’s Historical Highlights
"Jelly-Roll Blues," is recorded by blues great, Jelly Roll Morton…1924
"Pay-as-you-go" (withholding) US income tax deductions authorized…1943
14" of rain in 6 hrs burst Rapid City SD dam, drowns 237…1972
1st US "dime novel" published: "Malaseka, The Indian Wife of the White Hunter," 
     by Mrs Ann Stevens…1860
Burma riots kill 20 people and burn down 300 houses…2012
Charles Elmer Hires sells his 1st root beer (Phila)…1869
Charles Graham patents false teeth…1822
China leases Hong Kong's new territories to Britain for 99 years…1898
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year
     policy of excluding black men from priesthood…1978
Equal Pay Act enacted…1963
Jacques Cartier 1st sails into mouth of St Lawrence River…1534
Roman Emperor Nero commits suicide, imploring his secretary to slit his 
     throat to evade a Senate-imposed death by flogging…68
US Academy at West Point founded…1802

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



My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Another hot one here in Flag. So glad there is always a breeze off the mountain to keep my place a lot cooler. Weatherman says this heat wave will stay until next week. Bummer since it is only drying out the forest and we have no moisture in sight.  
Mary had brought up some fresh peaches from her tree in Phoenix. Boy, are they juicy…and sweet. So nice on a hot summer day. Tonight I’m having grilled shrimp, pasta salad, corn on the cob, and peaches…what could be better? For those that don’t already know, put an ear of corn in the microwave for about 6 minutes, let it cool a bit, husk it and it is great.
 
Nelson Mandela has done amazing things throughout his life. My visit to his jail cell on Robben Island in South Africa will always remain one of the most moving experiences I have ever had. He is now 94 and has been in and out of the hospital a lot. It is sad to me that he can’t just let go. He has made his mark on this world and should be able to move on. It will be a sad day when he passes, but his pain and anguish will have ended.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
D
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Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Hmmmm
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
Ok, then?



Harper’s Index    
Value of the 220 diamonds swallowed by a South African jewel smuggler in November: $265,000
Picture of the Day: Getting Ready for Summer!



Unusual Fact of the Day
The 1983 film The Right Stuff featured an interesting stepping-stone of cast and character last names: Ed Harris played John Glenn, Scott Glenn played Alan Shepard, and Sam Shepard played Chuck Yeager.
Joke-of-the-day
How is a snail stronger than an elephant? Because an elephant carries his trunk, but a snail carries his house!  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
AVOIDING OVERFITTING IN NEURAL NETWORKS
You will get overfitting in your neural network if you have more weights than data points.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Police in Florida said a man accused of bilking women out of hundreds of thousands of dollars with a phony business used a dating website to find his victims. Osceola County investigators said Scott Campbell allegedly convinced women he met on dating websites to give him a total exceeding hundreds of thousands of dollars by convincing them to invest in his phony music business, "Bank Deposits Only Records," WESH, Orlando, reported Friday. Police said Campbell told the women the business included an "American Idol"-style talent search contest, and he showed them photos of himself with celebrities including Ludacris, Anthony Hamilton and Wendy Williams to make his business seem legitimate. Detectives said Campbell used the money to fuel his gambling habit. The suspect was arrested in Flagler County and will be returned to Osceola County to face charges, authorities said.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The first known lighthouse - the Pharaohs of Alexandria, Egypt - was completed about 280 B.C. It stood more than 350 feet tall until an earthquake destroyed it in the 1300s.
  • The world's oldest working lighthouse, La Coruna, stands at the northwest tip of Spain. The Romans built it early in the second century A.D. It's also called the Tower of Hercules.
  • The first lighthouse in what is now the United States was built on Little Brewster Island at the entrance to Boston Harbor in 1716. The British blew it up in 1776. The replacement tower, dating to 1783, still functions as a navigation aid. Known as Boston Harbor Light, it is the only U.S. lighthouse that is still manned.
  • The first U.S. lighthouse to use electricity is also the world's most famous lighthouse: the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. From its opening in 1886 until its deactivation as a lighthouse in 1902, its torch carried an electric light that was visible for 24 miles.
  • The tallest masonry U.S. lighthouse is the Cape Hatteras Light near Buxton on North Carolina's Outer Banks. It was recently measured at 207.49 feet from the bottom of the foundation (about 10 feet underground) to the top of the spire.
  • The first lighthouse on the West Coast was the Alcatraz Island Light in San Francisco Bay, completed in 1854. The original tower has been replaced by a 1909-vintage structure.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
3-10
(World) Dystonia Awareness Week
6-9
Great American Brass Band Week
Superman Days
8-16
Jim Thorpe Native American Games
Men's Health Week
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Flag Week
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Abused Women and Children's Awareness Day
·        Children's Sunday
·        Donald Duck Day—1931: 1st cartoon with him
·        Multicultural American Child Day
·        Ride The Wind Day, Ride For Wind Day or World Wind Day Race
·        Unity Day
·        World APS Day: Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome “rare” autoimmune disease  

Today’s Events through History  
1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion…1772
Barbra Streisand appears on "Ed Sullivan Show"…1963
Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England…1549
Comedian Richard Pryor suffers burns from free basing cocaine…1980
Jack La Lanne, 76, arrested for suspicion of DWI…1991
New England synod clergy meet at Cambridge today. A large number of Indians 
     attend the meeting to hear Roxbury minister John Eliot deliver a sermon in their
     own language…1647
Secretariat becomes 1st Triple Crown winner in 25 years by winning horse 
     racing's Belmont Stakes…1973
William Jennings Bryan quits as Secretary of State…1915

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Jackie Mason, comedian (World According to Me, Chicken Soup) is 82

In their 70’s
Dick Vitale, US, sportscaster (ESPN, ABC "Oh Baby!") is 74 
  
In their 50’s
Johnny Depp, actor (21 Jump Street, Ed Wood) is 50
Michael J. Fox, Canadian actor (Family Ties, Back to the Future, Teen Wolf) is 52
Aaron Sorkin, writer, screenplays is 52

In their 30’s
Natalie Portman, Israeli/American actress (Professional, Everyone Says I Love You) is 32

Remembered for being born today
Robert Cummings, actor (Love that Bob, Dial M For Murder) [1910-1990]
Robert S McNamara, US Sec of Defense (1961-68)/head (World Bank) [1916-2009]
Les Paul, guitarist/inventor (Les Paul guitar) [1915-2009]
Cole Porter, composer/lyricist (Anything Goes, Kiss Me Kate) [1891-1964]
Peter the Great [Pyotr Alexeyevich Romanov], tsar of Russia [1672-1725]
George Stephenson, Newcastle England, inventor (RR locomotive) [1781-1848]
Fred Waring, musician/conductor/inventor (Waring Blender) [1900-1984]
Jackie Wilson, Detroit, singer (Lonely Teardrops, Night) [1934-1984]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Miguel Asturias, Guatemalan writer/Nobel Laureate…1974…at 74
William Carey, one of the founders of the Baptist Missionary Society…1834…at 64
Charles Dickens, English writer (David Copperfield)…stroke…1870…at 58
Carry Amelia Moore Nation, American temperance leader…1911…at 64

Answer: Brain Teasers
Stand up comedy (stand up comma D)
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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6-8-13


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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 23/ Day: 159   Today: H 85°…L 44°
Wind: ave:   7mph; Gusts:  20mph  Ave. humidity:  27%
*Ave low
Ave high 
Record low
Record high
39°
77°
24° (1950)
89° (1985)


Quote of the Day



Today’s Historical Highlights
"Smothers Brothers comedy Hour," last airs on CBS-TV…1969
1st parking meters are invented…1936
Babe Ruth arrested for speeding, fined $100, & held in jail until 4 PM…1921
Bing Cosby records "Silent Night"…1942
Italy invaded by Attila the Hun…452
James Madison introduces a proposed Bill of Rights in the U.S. House of
      Representatives…1789
Siam changes name to Thailand…1949
Tennessee votes to secede from the Union…1861
Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec…1824

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



My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Another hot one here in Flag with only a few dark clouds and no moisture.  Forest is very dry and we are hearing of daily campfires…even though they are banned. Idiots are everywhere. No damage and we all hope it stays that way. So glad I live at the base of the mountain to get a nice breeze most of the day.
 
I’m still not buying Obama’s story that the government needs a second warrant to listen to my phone conversations or to read my emails. According to some sources this secret court that approves the collection of all this data has never turned down a request that it has been given. I am not now, nor have I ever participated in any illegal acts in my emails or conversations. I just don’t like the idea that anybody can read or listen to my conversations without my knowledge. If a phone call is going to be recorded, I hear that warning before the conversation begins. ‘This call may be recorded for training purposes’. Someday we will be hearing ‘This call is being recorded to insure that you are not a terrorist.’ I still remember the discussion when Obama was elected and the Feds didn’t want him using his Blackberry for texting since the phone might not be secure. Now we find that Obama has made all our phones insecure from government intrusion…and without our knowledge. While all this intrusion may be necessary for security, I believe that the government should have told us they were doing this. It would have been an interesting debate, and would have caused at least a pause from terrorists when they made their plans through emails, texts, or voice.  I saw a great post today with someone calling the NSA and telling them that they had accidently deleted an email from April 2009 and asking the NSA to find it and resend it to her.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
An Army sergeant is surrounded by the enemy and he's the only American left.
He finds an old lamp in front of him and rubs it. Out pops a genie. The genie grants him one wish, with a catch. He says, "Whatever you wish for, each insurgent will get two of the same thing." 
The sergeant ponders a while and thinks:"If I get a gernade they get two. If I get a rifle they get two!" He then rubs the bottle again and out pops the genie.
"Well," the genie asks "have you made up your mind?"
What did the Sergeant ask for to help him get away?
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Hmmmm
To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    
  • Pounds by which the average American’s self-reported ‘ideal weight’ has increased since 1990: 13
  • Chances that an average American ate at McDonald’s yesterday: 1 in 12

Picture of the Day: Recent Canadian Cruise



Unusual Fact of the Day
Ian Murphy is the king of the old-school computer hackers. In 1981, he and three accomplices broke into the AT&T phone system and changed its internal clocks so that customers would get midnight discounts in midday, while late-night callers got stuck with outrageous bills. For the incident, Murphy became the first hacker to be charged with a computer crime.
Joke-of-the-day
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops.
 Now you know why they call it a workstation!
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
MEN VS. WOMEN
 Women tend to act smarter than they really are at work and dumber than they really are at home. Men tend to act just the opposite.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
He is Heath Campbell, the New Jersey Nazi. He has popped up in the news once or twice, mostly because of what he named his children. His daughter is JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell and his son is Adolf Hitler Campbell.
After state welfare officials took his children away from him suspected child abuse, Campbell showed up for a Family Court hearing wearing a full Nazi uniform and a Hitler mustache.
Campbell was accompanied to court by a woman wearing a costume with a swastika on its sleeve and a Nazi Iron Eagle.
When asked if wearing the Nazi uniform would hurt him in the eyes of the Family Court judge, Campbell told a TV reporter, "Well, if they're good judges, and they're good people, they'll look within and not what's on the outside."
And what is on the inside is a nut-job who wears a Nazi uniform to court.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Barbers at one time combined shaving and haircutting with bloodletting and pulling teeth. The white stripes on a field of red that spiral down a barber pole represent the bandages used in the bloodletting.
  • Based on a US Justice Department study conducted between 1992 and 1996, workplace violence troubles 1.7 million Americans a year. Number of workers attacked or threatened per thousand: Police officers: 306, Private security guards: 218, Taxi drivers: 184, Prison guards: 117, Bartenders: 91, Mental health professionals: 80, Gas station attendants: 79.
  • Catholic Popes who died during sex: Leo VII (936-9) died of a heart attack, John VII (955-64) was bludgeoned to death by the husband of the woman he was with at the time, John XIII (965-72) was also murdered by a jealous husband, Pope Paul II (1467-71) allegedly died while being sodomized by a page boy.
  • For drinking, washing, etc., an average American uses 168 gallons of water per day. The average American residence uses 107,000 gallons per year.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
1-8
Black Single Parents Week
End Mountain Top Removal Week
International Clothesline Week
National Business Etiquette Week
National Headache Awareness Week
National Sun Safety Week
National Tire Safety Week
Rip Current Awareness Week
3-10
(World) Dystonia Awareness Week
6-9
Great American Brass Band Week
Superman Days
8-16
Jim Thorpe Native American Games
Men's Health Week
National Automotive Service Professionals Week
National Flag Week
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Banana Split Days
·        Belmont Stakes
·        International Young Eagles Day
·        Name Your Poison Day
·        National Caribbean American HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
·        Upsy Daisy Day
·        Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Day
·        World Oceans Day

Today’s Events through History  
"Milton Berle Show" premieres on NBC TV…1948
1st Civil Rights Act passes…1866
Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected pres of Austria…1986
Cable Cars begin service in LA…1889
Commercially made ice cream 1st advertised (Mr Hall, NYC)…1786
Downed U.S. Air Force pilot Captain Scott O'Grady is rescued by U.S. 
     Marines in Bosnia…1995
James Earl Ray, alleged assassin of Martin Luther King Jr, captured…1968
Laki Volcano in southern Iceland begins 8-month eruption…1783
Nixon says 25,000 US troops would leave Vietnam by end of August…1969
Nolan Ryan notches his 4th career 19-strikeout game…1977
Segregated lunch counters in DC forbidden by Supreme Court…1953
US troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam…1965
World's largest flower blooms in NY Botanical Garden, 12' calla lily…1937

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Barbara Bush, 1st lady is 88
Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq) is 80
Jerry Stiller, comedian is 84

In their 70’s
Nancy Sinatra, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin') is 73
William Calley, American war criminal is 70

In their 50’s
Keenan Ivory Wayans, comedian (In Living Color) is 55

In their 40’s
Julianna Margulies, actress (Carol Hathaway-ER) is 47
David Sutcliffe, Canadian actor is 44

In their 30’s
Kanye West, recording artist, record producer, film director is 36

Remembered for being born today
Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn) [1625-1712]
George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show) [1923-1995]
Ida Saxton McKinley, 1st lady [1847-1907]
Suharto, general/president Indonesia [1921-2008]
Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Justice [1917-2002]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Cochise [K'uu-ch'ish "oak"], Apache leader…cancer…1874…at 69ish
Andrew Jackson, (D) 7th president…dropsy…1845…at 78
William F Jenkins [Murray Leinster], author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)…1975…at 78
Mohammed, prophet of Islam (Koran)-(according to tradition)…632…at 63
Thomas Paine, writer (Age of Reason, Common Sense)…1809…at 72
Robert Taylor, actor (Death Valley Days)…lung cancer…1969…at 57

Answer: Brain Teasers
 One Glass Eye
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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