2-10-14


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 07 / Day: 041   
Today: L 27°…H 54°… Ave. humidity: 67%
Wind: ave:   13mph; Gusts:  33mph  
Average Low: 18° Record Low: -17° (1933)
Average High: 45° Record High:  65° (1951)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1855 - US citizenship laws amended; all children of US parents born abroad 
     granted US citizenship
1870 - City of Anaheim incorporates (1st time)
1870 - YWCA (Young Women's Christian Association) forms (NYC)
1890 - Around 11 million acres ceded to US by Sioux Indians opens for settlement
1897 - NY Times begins using slogan "All the News That's Fit to Print"
1931 - New Delhi becomes capital of India
1940 - Tom & Jerry created by Hanna & Barbera debut by MGM
1947 - WW II peace treaties signed
1949 - Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" opens at Morosco Theater, NYC
1951 - "John & Marsha" by Stan Freberg peaks at #21
1956 - "My Friend Flicka" premieres on CBS (later NBC) TV
1957 - Southern Christian Leadership Conference forms
1962 - USSR swaps spy Francis Gary Power to US for Rudolph Abel
1967 - 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability & Succession) in effect
1968 - Peggy Fleming wins Olympic figure skating gold medal, Grenoble, France
1989 - Miami Vice's 100th episode seen on TV
1992 - Bonnie Blair wins 1992 Olympics 1st gold medal for USA
1997 - O J Simpson jury reaches decision on $25M in punitive damages
1998 - Olympic figure skater Peggy Fleming undergoes breast cancer surgery

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
Not my best Sunday…but much better now. My foot pain returned with a vengeance late last night. Soaking helped a little, but still very painful to walk. Finally, I called a friend to take me to the Urgent Care. I was not the only one there, so the whole visit took 2 hours…but found out the problem, and better yet a solution. Some fancy Latin name for a ligament that runs along the sole of the foot is inflamed. The actual provider time was about 10 minutes. Turns out it is a common thing for people who run…which isn’t me, but also for walkers…me. Take the two meds, keep off the foot, keep it elevated, and no major walking for a week, but things are already better. Vicodin took about 20 minutes to kick in, so am all good now. I have a pretty high pain threshold, and I know when something is wrong. Since the pain came back hard last night I knew something was wrong. Hopping has never been my strong suit, and doing it in the dark to get to the toilet…about 10 feet, was not pleasant in the middle of the night. I made it down the stairs late this morning, using both walls and the hand rail. Now on the road to recovery…and not a big deal. I know I would have had a much more difficult time if my friend had not lent me her cane…those things really do work well.
 
I enjoyed watching more Olympics and am very happy that the only time I had any pain in my foot was when I put weight on it…so watching TV was easy. Unfortunately, as a super multi-tasker, I did have a little problem just sitting and watching TV. It also took about 15 minutes to get this morning’s newspaper, a task that usually takes less than 2 minutes.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
This one is a "mental" exercise - don't use paper and scissors - just imagine in your mind: 
Take a sheet of paper - any size that you happened to have (remember, just imagine this paper). Now fold this sheet of paper in half and now fold it in half again, at right angles to the first fold. Now you have four thicknesses of paper. Now imagine you use scissors and cut through all four thicknesses, right down the middle of the paper, parallel to the first fold you made. Now, imagine, how many pieces of paper do you have now? Don't get paper and scissors to solve this one - try to picture this in your mind!

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

Remembering TV’s great shows:
"The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson" Heeere's...the guy who made it look oh-so-easy. Late-night TV would never be such a delicious communal experience again.
Words Shakespeare invented
give the devil his due Henry IV Part 1 (Act 1 Scene 2If he fight longer than he sees reason,  I'll forswear arms.
He will give the devil his due.
If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work; But when they seldom come, they wished for come.
OK Then…


Harper’s Index 
Chance that a transgendered person has experienced homelessness at some point in his or her life: 1 in 5
Unusual Fact of the Day
Winona Ryder was cast to play Michael Corleone's daughter in Godfather III. When she dropped out, Sofia Coppola got the part.
Joke-of-the-day
A police officer in a small town stopped a motorist who was speeding down Main Street. 
"But officer." the man began, "I can explain,". 
"Just be quiet," snapped the officer. "I'm going to let you cool your heels in jail until the chief gets back..." 
"But officer, I just wanted to say...." 
"And I said to keep quiet! You're going to jail!" 
A few hours later the officer looked in on his prisoner and said, "Lucky for you that the chief is at his daughter's wedding. He'll be in a good mood when he gets back." 
"Don't count on it," answered the fellow in the cell. "I'm the groom."   
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
FLYING AN AIRPLANE
Birds dive to avoid oncoming airplanes. To avoid them, climb and reduce your speed to give them more time to get out of the way.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
ROCHESTER, N.Y. - A Rochester, N. Y., man allegedly bit off part of his brother's ear following a Super Bowl party Sunday, City Court documents said. Sean Fallon-Nebbia, 27, was charged with felony first-degree assault after he and his brother Frank, 26, fought in Fallon-Nebbia's apartment late Sunday. He is also accused of punching Frank Fallon-Nebbia in the face and rendering him unconscious when emergency responders arrived, the (Rochester, N.Y.) Democrat and Chronicle reported Tuesday. Court documents allege the brothers shared a bottle of whiskey and more at a party, and were roughhousing after the game when the incident occurred. Another unidentified resident of the apartment said the brothers were drunk and "play wrestling" before they "turned violent and aggressive." Sean Fallon-Nebbia pleaded not guilty Monday in City Court and was remanded to the Monroe County Jail. Frank Fallon-Nebbia received a court order of protection from his brother, and a doctor at Rochester's Strong Memorial Hospital said the ear was permanently disfigured. Sean Fallon-Nebbia is scheduled to return to court Friday.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • A few hundred meters below the ocean's surface it is dark because light cannot penetrate to those depths. Blue light penetrates water farther than red or violet light, and because more blue light is returned to the surface without being absorbed, the open ocean usually looks blue in color.
  • Seawater may look blue-green when it contains a large amount of phytoplankton - tiny plant-like organisms that contain chlorophyll. The yellow-brown sea found in coastal regions probably gets its coloring from mud, sand or pollution.
  •  
    • Sound - particularly high-frequency sound -penetrates much farther than light does in the ocean. This property has led to the development of echo-sounders which are used to construct pic­tures of the ocean floor.
  • Sound can also be used to locate shoals of fish. At a depth of between about 500m and 1,500m a sound channel exists where sound waves can be trapped and along which they travel for large distances.  Whales have been known to use the sound channel to commu­nicate with each other when they are thousands of kilometers apart; zoologists believe that their long-distance "songs" may attract others to new hunting or breeding grounds.
  • The sound channel has also been used by submarines when hiding in the ocean. A submarine floating in or below the sound channel is difficult to detect because most of the noise it makes travels horizontally, and cannot be picked up by ships at the surface.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
☼7-14☼
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week 
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week  
Risk Awareness Week
Winter Olympics
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
☼9-15☼
Celebration of Love Week
Children of Alcoholics Week
Jell-O Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week 
International Flirting Week
Love a Mench Week
National Green Week

Today Is                                                                       
·        Clean Out Your Computer Day
·        Plimsoll Day:  to remember Samuel Plimsoll, of English Parliament: championed sailors' safety
·        Westminster Dog Show

Today’s Events through History  
1863 - 1st US fire extinguisher patent granted
1934 - 1st Jewish immigrant ship to break the English blockade in Palestine
1942 - Glenn Miller awarded 1st ever gold record selling 1 million "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
1996 - IBM computer Deep Blue becomes the first computer to win a game of chess against a reigning (human) chess champion, Gary Kasparov

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Jim Whittacker, mountain climber (1st American to climb Mt Everest) is 85
Robert Wagner, actor (It Takes a Thief, Hart to Hart) is 84
Roberta Flack, vocalist (If Ever I Saw Your Face) is 77
Mark Spitz, swimmer (Oly-9 gold/silver/bronze-68, 72) is 64
Greg Norman, Queensland, Australia, PGA golfer (1984 Kemper) is 59
Jim Cramer, American television personality is 59
George Stephanopoulos, presidential adviser, newsman is 53
Glenn Beck, conservative radio and television host is 50
Laura Dern, actress (Jurassic Park, Mask) is 47
Emma Roberts, American actress is 23

Remembered for being born today
1890 - Boris Pasternak, Moscow, Russian novelist/poet (Dr Zhivago, Nobel 1958)
1893 - Jimmy Durante, long-nosed comedian (and goodnight Mrs Calabash)
1906 - Lon Chaney Jr, actor (Hawkeye, Pistols, Petticoats)
1929 - Jerry Goldsmith, pianist/composer (Twilight Zone)
1937 - Don Wilson, rock guitarist (Ventures-Walk Don't Run, Batman Theme)
1939 - Boris Pickett, vocalist (Monster Mash)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Laura Ingalls Wilder, US author (Little House on Prairie), 1957, @90
Arthur Miller, American playwright, 2005, @89
Joseph Lister, 1st Baron Lister, surgeon (pioneer of antiseptic), 1912, @84
Roy Scheider, Actor (All That Jazz), myeloma, 2008, @75
Ellen Wood, English author (Pomeroy Abbey), 1887, @73
Alex Haley, US writer (Autobiography of Malcolm X, Roots), heart attack, 1992, @70
Jim Varney, American actor, cancer, 2000, @50
Bartholomew Roberts, Welsh pirate, in battle, 1722, @39

Brain Teasers
You will have 3 pieces of paper after the cut. It won't matter which direction you make the cut with the scissors - you'll end up with 3 pieces of paper. Don't believe it? Now go get the paper and scissors and actually do this - you'll see!
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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2-9-14


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Flagstaff Almanac:
Week: 07 / Day: 040   
Today: L 28°…H 52°… Ave. humidity: 81%
Wind: ave:   10mph; Gusts:  14mph  
Average Low: 18° Record Low:  -21° (1929)
Average High: 45° Record High:  64° (1996)

Quote of the Day
 
Today’s Historical Highlights
1822 - American Indian Society organizes
1822 - Haiti invades the newly founded Dominican Republic.
1825 - House of Representatives elects John Quincy Adams 6th US president
1861 - Jefferson Davis & Alexander Stephens elected president & VP of CSA
1870 - US Army establishes US National Weather Service
1889 - The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is established
1893 - Verdi's opera "Falstaff" premieres in Milan
1895 - Volleyball invented by W G Morgan in Massachusetts
1900 - Dwight Davis established a new tennis trophy, the Davis Cup
1909 - 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1918 - Army chaplain school organizes at Ft Monroe Va
1922 - Snow on Mauna Loa, Hawaii
1943 - FDR orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1964 - 1st appearance of Beatles on "Ed Sullivan Show" (73.7 million viewers)
1964 - 9th Winter Olympic games close at Innsbruck, Austria
1971 - Probably 1st gay theme TV episode - All in the Family

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
My Free Rambling Thoughts   
An interesting day…woke up with a sore foot/ankle for no apparent reason. Got a little better throughout the day, but still sore. No idea what is going on…just hard to walk very far. Hopefully tomorrow will be better.
 
Was able to watch a lot of Olympics. So amazing to me to watch these young athletes give their all for their sport. I don’t follow any of the sports except during the Olympics so the commentary is very valuable. I’m sure the aficionados of each sport finds the commentary quite crazy as it is a fine line the commentators have to walk to keep both the casual watcher and the aficionado pleased with their comments.  It’s working for me, so I’m happy with the coverage.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Throw some anagrams around! In the sentences below, there are 10 jumbled phrases. Each is an anagram of a word or phrase that helps complete the story. Can you decipher all 10?
The kids were playing on the WET SIGNS, Uncle Frank and Jack from next door were playing a game of HOSS HEROES, and it was time for the grill. The THICK TRIO was lighted, and the TOAST PIE had been dusted off. Kristen, their teenager, was stretched out on the EAGLE CUSHION and talking on her CLONE HELP as usual. The RUM LABEL offered some shade, and it was time for the announcement: "NO HBO CONCERT!" This followed by PRESCRIBE MAD HUB and a genial reminder: TO CHOKE SKIES!

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

Remembering TV’s great shows:
"Mad Men" The unglamorous side of selling the American dream is vividly realized in Matthew Weiner's gorgeous but bleak paean to the swinging '60s.
Words Shakespeare invented
frailty, thy name is woman: Hamlet Act 1 Scene 3Why, she would hang on himAs if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on, and yet, within a month—Let me not think on ’t. Frailty, thy name is woman!
OK Then…
 
Harper’s Index 
Factor by which a US military et is more likely thatn a member of the general public to be transgender: 5.3
Unusual Fact of the Day
When table tennis was originally created in 1889, it was called gossima.
Joke-of-the-day
A man got really drunk one night in his local pub. The barman refused to serve him any more alcohol and told him he should be heading home. The man thought this was a good idea so he stood up to leave but fell over straight away. He tried to stand up again but only fell over again. He thought if only he could get outside and get some fresh air he'd be grand. So he crawled outside then tried to stand up and fell over again. In the end after falling over lots more he decided to crawl home. When he got back to his house he pulled himself up using the door handle but as soon as he let go he fell over again. He had to crawl up the stairs and managed to fall over onto the bed and fell asleep.
When he finally woke up the next morning his wife asked him what he was doing at the pub last night. He denied it but she said, "I know you were there..." he maintained his innocence until "...the barman rang to say you forgot your wheelchair again...."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CASTRATING CALVES
Castrate a calf when his testicles are the size of a squirrel's head.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
BRADENTON, Fla. - Prosecutors in Florida said they have decided not to pursue a case against a woman accused of beating her boyfriend for refusing to cuddle with her in bed.
A Jan. 24 Circuit Court filing from an assistant state attorney said prosecutors have decided not to pursue the misdemeanor battery charge against Shavonna Rumph, 31, who allegedly attacked live-in boyfriend Henry Price, 33, after a night of drinking, the Smoking Gun website reported Thursday. The Manatee County Sheriff's Office arrest report said Rumph became angry at Price Dec. 28 when he refused to cuddle with her while they were in bed. Rumph allegedly tore Price's shirt and threatened him with a knife during the ensuing argument.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Common dream motifs that transcend cultural and socio-economic boundaries include falling, flying, nakedness in public, and unpreparedness. Such shared dreams arise from experiences and anxieties fundamental to all people.
  • While dream interpretation may not be accurate, it is certainly not new. The Beatty Papyrus, written around 1350 B.C. and discovered at Thebes, is the oldest dream dictionary existing today. It describes special dream-interpreting priests called 'Masters of the Secret Things' or 'Learned Ones of the Magic Library.'  


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
☼7-14☼
Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week 
Have A Heart for A Chained Dog Week  
Risk Awareness Week
Winter Olympics
Love Makes the World Go Round; But, Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week
☼9-15☼
Celebration of Love Week
Children of Alcoholics Week
Jell-O Week
Freelance Writers Appreciation Week
Random Acts of Kindness Week 
International Flirting Week
Love a Mench Week
National Green Week

Today Is                                                                       
·        Autism Sunday
·        Man Day (Sunday before Valentine’s Day)
·        National Stop Bullying Day
·        Read in the Bathtub Day
·        Toothache Day
·        World Marriage Day

Today’s Events through History  
1540 - The 1st recorded race meet in England 
1942 - Daylight Savings War Time goes into effect in US
1996 - The Irish Republican Army declares the end of its 18 month ceasefire 

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
Roger Mudd, Wash DC, news ancher (CBS Weekend News, NBC Evening News) is 86
Carole King, [Klein], Brooklyn NY, pianist/singer (Tapestry) is 72
Joe Pesci, actor (Half Nelson, Goodfellas) is 71
Mia [Maria] Farrow, actr (Rosemary's Baby, Purple Rose of Cairo) is 69
Judith Light, actress (Angela-Who's the Boss, 1 Life to Live) is 65

Remembered for being born today
1773 - William Henry Harrison, Va, (Whigs) 9th US Pres
1789 - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography
1814 - Samuel Jones Tilden, philanthropist for NY Public Library
1909 - Dean Rusk, US Secretary of State
1914 - Ernest Tubb, guitarist/singer (I'm Walking the Floor over You)
1930 - Garner Ted Armstrong, American evangelist (d. 2003)

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
J William Fulbright, (Sen-Ark)/anti-Vietnam War, 1995, @89
[George] Gabby Hayes, western actor, 1969, @83
David Wayne, [Wayne Mcmeekan], US actor (Ellery Queen), 1995, @81
Sophie Tucker, Russ/US singer/actress (My Yiddish Mama), kidney failure, 1966, @79
Princess Margaret of the United Kingdom, stroke, 2002, @71
Percy Faith, Canadian musician, cancer, 1976, @67 
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist (Crime & Punishment), hemorrhage, 1881, @59
Bill Haley, vocalist (Rock Around Clock), heart attack, 1981, @55

Brain Teasers
The kids were playing on the SWING SET, Uncle Frank and Jack from next door were playing a game of HORSE SHOES, and it was time for the grill. The TIKI TORCH was lighted, and the PATIO SET had been dusted off. Kristen, their teenager, was stretched out on the CHAISE LONGUE and talking on her CELL PHONE as usual. The UMBRELLA offered some shade, and it was time for the announcement: "CORN ON THE COB!" This was followed by BARBECUED SHRIMP and a genial reminder: KISS THE COOK!
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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