10/17/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 42/ Day: 390   
Today: L 35°…H 57°… Ave. humidity: 54%
Wind: ave:   5mph; Gusts:  18mph  
Average Low: 31° Record Low:  18° (1998)
Average High: 63° Record High:  78° (1973)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
"Hair" premieres on Broadway…1967
Al Capone convicted of tax evasion, sentenced to 11 years in prison…1931
Arabs decrease oil production…1973
Bank of Italy (Bank of America) opens its doors…1904
Boston blacks, petition legislature for equal school facilities…1787
Colbert Report first airs…2005
Dalai Lama receives the United States Congressional Gold Medal…2007
Lance Armstrong loses a host of endorsements in the wake of his doping scandal…2012
Mother Teresa of India, awarded Nobel Peace Prize…1979
NY Museum of Modern Art hangs Matisse's "Le Bateau" upside-down; corrected 12/3…1961
Pinnacle fitted on Taipei 101, to become the World's tallest high rise…2003
Pres Carter signs bill restoring Jefferson Davis citizenship…1978
Radio Corporation of America (RCA) created…1919
Scottish worker begins hunger march from Glasgow on London…1922

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
What a joke. This congress is a mess and has certainly proven that as a group they are unable to control the government of the US. So tough to see our great country in such a stupid position. Sadly the other world powers are looking at DC and wondering why the dollar is the basis for the world economy. The people who have caused this mess have no idea about international relations. In my first real international trip, Scotland, I had my eyes opened when I turned on the TV and saw that the Olympics were going on. All the interviews, all the ‘stories’, all the events that were televised were when the UK countries were expected to do well. I was shocked to learn that others in the world were not that interested in what the American athletes were doing. I quickly learned that each nation has its own history and its own problems. A good lesson for today. We are not the center of the universe and we will not always control the international economy when we act so childish. The Tea Party claims they want smaller government, then pass bills to have the Feds and the state governments interfere with a woman’s right to choose, more regulations on who can and cannot vote and on and on. It looks like the congress is really just going to kick the can down the road so we can deal with this again in less than 90 days. I say no winter break for Congress unless the issues are solved. No pay for the Congress until the issues are solved. I just can’t believe that Americans want our government to run like this.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
What advice is shown below? 
BEETROOT  YEETROOT  YOETROOT  YOUTROOT  YOURROOT  YOURSOOT  YOURSEOT  YOURSELT  YOURSELF

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

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias
If you have an irrational fear of... Garlic
You're suffering from... Alliumphobia Latin allium ‘garlic’
If you have an irrational fear of... Germany (or Germans)
You're suffering from... Germanophobia
OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
  • Portion of live-in domestic workers who make less than minimum wage: 2/3
  • Who are required to work during their scheduled time off: 3/5

Amazing Facts About The Human Body
Human bone is as strong as granite in supporting weight. A block of bone the size of a matchbox can support 9 tons – that is four times as much as concrete can support.
Unusual Fact of the Day
The Beach Boys were the founders of surf rock; however, only Dennis Wilson knew how to surf. He died of drowning in 1983.


Joke-of-the-day
A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three very large, leathered bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter.
Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?"
The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
ON-LINE USERS RULE
If you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it. Quoting Charles Arthur in The Guardian, July 20, 2006.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
NASHUA, N.H. -- NASHUA, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire gas station clerk who thwarted an attempted robbery by pulling out a handgun was fired because company policy prohibits staff from carrying firearms.
Shannon "Bear" Cothran told the Telegraph of Nashua he was working at a Shell station in Nashua early Monday when a man approached him with a knife. Police confirmed that the would-be robber fled after the clerk pulled out a gun.
Cothran said he then filed a report with Nouria Energy Corp., which owns the station, and was fired hours later even though the store manager and a district manager lobbied to save his job.
Nouria said in a statement Wednesday that it instructs its cashiers to give thieves what they ask for during a robbery attempt to resolve the conflict peacefully and quickly.
"Make no mistake: We care about the personal well-being of employees like Mr. Cothran, whose years of service are truly appreciated — not about the money in the cash register. So, we are especially grateful that this situation was resolved without injury," the statement said. "We do respect the constitutional right to bear arms. However, we believe the best way to keep our employees and customers safe is to prohibit weapons in the workplace."
The company said its policies are similar to others in the industry and consistent with the advice offered by police.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Once in England, because of a water spout, it rained frogs!
  • Almost two-thirds of the earth’s surface is covered by water. If the earth were flat, water would cover everything in a layer two miles deep!
  • During a solar eclipse, the shadows of leaves make the same crescent shape of the eclipsing sun. The image is made by light passing through tiny holes in the leaves.
  • Monks in the 16th century recorded seeing a giant explosion on the side of the Moon. It most likely was a large meteor that slammed into the Moon and left a large crater. It was a good thing the Moon was between us and the meteor!
  • See the rings of Saturn while you can. They slowly wobble up and down over the years as Saturns poles point away from then towards the sun. The rings disappear when edge on to our line of sight. Currently they are almost at their widest point and can be seen even in binoculars and small telescopes.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
13-19
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Earth Science Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week 
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
14-18
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence 
17-24
Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

Today Is                                                                      
·        Alternative Fuel Day
·        Black Poetry Day
·        Get to Know Your Customers Day
·        Get Smart About Credit Day
·        International Credit Union Day
·        International Day for the Eradication of Poverty
·        Mulligan Day
·        National Cake Decorating Day
·        National Pasta Day
·        Wear Something Gaudy Day
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·        Virgin Islands: Hurricane Thanksgiving Day (since 1726 that they survived another season)

Today’s Events through History  
Britain's Queen Elizabeth & Prince Philip visit the White House…1957
Cherokee sign the "Long Swamp" treaty; cede land in Georgia as reparations for 
     the fighting during the Revolutionary War…1782
Chuck Berry's "My Ding-a-ling," is #1…1972
Cornwallis defeated at Yorktown…1781
Thomas Edison files a patent for the Optical Phonograph (the first movie)…1888

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Jimmy Breslin, columnist (NY Post, News, Newsday) is 82
Michael McKean, actor (Laverne & Shirley, Saturday Night Live, Spinal Tap) is 66
George Wendt, actor (Norm-Cheers) is 65
Margot Kidder, actress (Lois Lane, Amityville Horror) is 65
Alan Jackson, country singer (Here in the Real World) is 55
Norm MacDonald, Canadian comedian, SNL is 50
Eminem [Marshall Bruce Mathers III], rapper and movie star is 41

Remembered for being born today
Montgomery Clift, actor (From Here to Eternity) [1920-1966]
Spring Byington, Colo Springs, actress (Lily Ruskin-December Bride) [1886-1971]
Irene Ryan, actress (Granny-Beverly Hillbillies) [1902-1973]
John Paul I, [Albino Luciano], 263rd Roman Catholic pope [1912-1978]
Jerry Siegel, comic book writer (Superman) [1914-1996]
Shinichi Suzuki, Japanese music teacher (Suzuki Method) [1898-1998]
Arthur Miller, playwright (Death of a Salesman, Crucible) [1915-2005]
Tom Poston, actor (Steve Allen Show, Newhart) [1921-2007]
Robert "Evel" Knievel, motorcycle daredevil (Snake River Canyon) [1938-2007]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Joey Bishop, entertainer, member of the Rat Pack…2007…@89
Teresa Brewer, pop and jazz singer…palsy…2007…@76
Frederic Chopin, Polish/French pianist/composer…TB…1849…@39

Brain Teasers
Be true to yourself. BEETROOT to YOURSELF (sound it out)
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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10/16/13


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 42/ Day: 289   
Today: L 23°…H 56°… Ave. humidity: 45%
Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  25mph  
Average Low: 31° Record Low:  13° (1984)
Average High: 63° Record High:  78° (1991)

Quote of the Day


Today’s Historical Highlights
"Gordo" comic strip (by Gus Arriola) 1st appears in newspapers…1941
1st US homeopathic medical college opens in Pennsylvania…1848
Brigham Young University is founded in Provo, Utah…1875
Charlotte Bronte's book "Jane Eyre" published…1847
Desmond Tutu, black Anglican Bishop, wins Nobel Peace Prize…1984
Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio founded…1923
Hotel in Boston becomes 1st to have indoor plumbing…1869
Million Man March held in Wash DC (over 800,000 black men attend)…1995
Portland, Maine burned by British…1775
Texas School Board prohibits teaching of evolution…1925

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


My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Is there any sanity left in the Republican party? Every time the news says they are close to a deal to open the government the far right adds a new condition. Now they want to talk Social Security. Really, this is insanity at its worse. Some idiot Republican Congressman put on his FB page that government workers should go to their local banks to get a short term loan to pay their bills now, since their employer isn’t going to pay them.  These people seem to have no connection to the real world. I just get more and more frustrated every time I turn on CNN.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Find a rhyme for each word below so you end up with a familiar three-word phrase in the form "__, __, and __". Number 7 is in the form "___, ___, or ___".
Example: Clue = "Cook, Wine, Drinker" Answer = "Hook, Line, and Sinker"
1. Palm, Pool, Protected 2. Deer, Chose, Goat 3. Life, Stork, Prune 4. Bomb, Click, Scary 5. Pup, Cup, Convey 6. Smell, Took, Sandal 7. Spin, Clues, Law

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

Hmmmm…Fearsome Phobias
If you have an irrational fear of... Fur
You're suffering from... Doraphobia Greek dora 'hide'
If you have an irrational fear of... Gaiety
You're suffering from... Cherophobia Greek to rejoice
OK Then…


Harper’s Index 
  • Percentage of men in dual-income marriages who said they struggled with work-family conflict in 1977: 35
  • Who say it today: 64

Amazing Facts About The Human Body
Testicles: A man’s testicles manufacture 10 million new sperm cells each day – enough that he could repopulate the entire planet in only 6 months!
Unusual Fact of the Day
Mark Twain was born in 1835, a year in which Halley’s comet was visible from earth. In 1909, he wrote, “I came in with Halley’s comet…and I expect to go out with it.” When he died on April 21, 1910, the comet was again visible in the night sky.

Joke-of-the-day
Two boy scouts went on a nature hike in the hills picking hickory nuts.
Along the way, they filled their small pails and then started to fill their pockets and shirts.
When they could hold no more nuts, they started down the country road until they came across a cemetery. The boys decided that would be a good place to stop and rest and divide out the nuts.
The two boys sat in the shade of a large oak tree and unloaded their pockets and buckets by dumping all of the nuts in a large pile.
In the process, two of them rolled away and rested near the road. The boys then proceeded to divide out the nuts. "One for you. One for me. One for you. One for me."
As they were doing this, another boy was passing by and happened to hear them. He looked into the cemetery, but could not see the boys, because they were obscured by the tree. He hesitated a moment and then ran back to town.
"Father! Father!" he yelled as he entered his house. "The cemetery. Come quick!"
"What's the matter?" his father asked.
"No time to explain," the boy frantically panted. "Follow me!"
The boy and his father ran up the country road and stopped when they reached the cemetery. They stopped at the side of the road and all fell silent for a few moments. Then the father asked his son what was wrong.
"Do you hear that?" he whispered. Both people listened intently and heard the Scouts. "One for me. One for you. One for me. One for you..."
The boy then blurted out, "The devil and the Lord are dividing the souls!"
The father was skeptical but silent -- until a few moments later as the Scouts completed dividing out the nuts and one Scout said to the other, "Now, as soon as we get those two nuts down by the road, we'll have them all."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
AVOID AN ACCIDENT
If the driver in front of you makes a mistake, give him plenty of room because there is a high probability that he is going to make one or two more shortly.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
The Magic Restroom Cafe in southern California's City of Industry is America's first toilet-themed eatery. All the dishes, seats and food items are all focused on toilets, bathrooms and human bodily functions.
Customers hoping for a crappy dining experience sit on stools topped with toilet seats and order appetizing menu items like "golden poop rice," "black poop" (actually a chocolate sundae), "smells-like-poop" (braised pork over rice)," and "bloody number two" (vanilla-strawberry sundae).
Those defecation-themed dishes are then served in miniature toilet bowls, according to Eater L.A., which recommends the Stinky Tofu as the most appropriate food choice.
Owner YoYo Li is a first-time restaurateur from China who decided to open her commode-themed restaurant after noticing the popularity of the Modern Toilet restaurant chain in China and Taiwan, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Magic Restroom Cafe officially opened Oct. 11 and, so far, the decor is getting better reviews than the food.
It is averaging 3 stars on Yelp and most of the complaints are based on slow service (possibly from a backed-up kitchen) and cold food. The official grand opening is set for later in the month.
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • In the tropical rainforest it gets about 80 to 400 inches of rain yearly. If it is raining really hard, it gets about 2 inches of rain per hour.
  • One tree can provide enough oxygen for 2 people to live off of for their whole lives.
  • The lowest place in North America is Death Valley at 282 feet below sea level.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
10-16
Take Your Medicine Americans Week
13-19
Bullying Bystanders Unite Week
Earth Science Week
Freedom From Bullies Week
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
National Chestnut Week 
National Food Bank Week
Teen Read Week
YWCA Week Without Violence
14-18
National School Lunch Week
YWCA Week Without Violence 

Today Is                                                                      
·        Boss's Day (or National Boss's Day) 
·        Department Store Day
·        Dictionary Day
·        National Feral Cat Day
·        National Fossil Day
·        National Take Your Parents To Lunch Day
·        Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity
·        Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce
·        World Food Day

Today’s Events through History  
2 secret US military satellites launched from Cape Canaveral…1963
Much of ancient structures of the Palace of Westminster (parliament) in London 
     is burnt down…1834
Tremont Hotel, 1st US modern hotel opens (Boston)…1829
USAF sends 2 aluminum bullets into space…1957

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Angela Lansbury, actress (Jessica-Murder She Wrote) is 88
Barry Corbin, actor (Maurice-Northern Exposure) is 73
Suzanne Somers, actress (3's Company, Step by Step) is 57
Tim Robbins, actor (Bull Durham, Shawshank Redemption) is 55
John Mayer, guitarist, singer-songwriter, and producer is 36

Remembered for being born today
King James II of Scotland [1430-1460]
Noah Webster, lexicographer (Webster's Dictionary) [1758-1843]
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, Dublin, (Pic of Dorian Gray) [1854-1900]
Michael Collins, Sam's Cross County Cork, Irish revolutionary leader [1899-1922]
Eugene O'Neill, dramatist (Desire Under the Elms-Nobel 1936) [1888-1953]
David Ben-Gurion, Plonsk Poland, 1st Prime Minister of Israel [1886-1973]
[Leon] Goose Goslin, baseball hall of famer (AL bat champ 1928) [1900-1971]
Alice Pearce, comedienne/actress (Gladys Kravitz-Bewitched) [1916-1977]
Charles W Colson, presidential adviser (Watergate figure) [1931-2012]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Barbara Billingsley, actress (Leave it to Beaver)…2010…@94
James Michener, writer (Hawaii)…1997…@90
Leo G Carroll, actor (Topper, Man From Uncle)…cancer…1972…@79
Pierre Salinger, John F. Kennedy's White House Press Secretary…heart 
     failure…2004…@79
George Marshall, US army general…1959…@78
Cornel Wilde, actor (Saadia, Comic, Beach Red, Gargoyles)…cancer…1989…@74
Tennessee Ernie Ford, country singer (16 Tons)….liver failure…1981…@72
Gene Krupa, US swing drummer (Sing Sing Sing)…cancer…1973…@64
William Holden, actor (Casino Royale)…bled to death…1981…@63
Dan Dailey, dancer and actor (Governor & JJ)…anemia…1978…@62
Marie Antoinette, queen of France…beheaded…1793…@37
Dan Wheldon, English auto racer…speedway accident…2011…@33

Brain Teasers
1. Calm, Cool, and Collected 2. Ear, Nose, and Throat 3. Knife, Fork, and Spoon 4. Tom, Dick, and Harry 5. Up, Up, and Away 6. Bell, Book, and Candle 7. Win, Lose, or Draw
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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