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Sept 22, 2015
Week: 39 \ Day: 2+65
September
Averages: 74°\42°
86004
Today: H 77° \ L 46°
Average Sky Cover: 80%
Wind
ave: 7mph\Gusts: 17mph
Ave.
High: 71° Record High: 83°[1949]
Ave. Low: 40° Record Low: 20°[1912]
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Observances
Today:
Car Free Day Link
Chainmail Day Link
Dear Diary Day
Hobbit Day
Ice Cream Cone Day
International Day of Radiant Peace
Long Count Day-Dempsey
loses to Tunney-1927
National Centenarian's Day
National Rock n' Roll Dog Day
National Voter Registration Day Link
National White Chocolate Day Link
National Woman Road Warrior Day
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Jewish-Yom Kippur – Jewish Day of Attornment
Independence
Day (Mali-1960-from
France)
Observances
This Week:
17-23
Constitution
Week
Hummingbird
Celebration Link
19-27
International
Air Ambulance Week Link
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Quote
of the Day
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US
Historical Highlights for Today
1692 - Last (8) people hanged for witchcraft in US
(Salem Mass) 20 hanged overall
1789 - US Office of Postmaster General is created under
the Treasury Department
1817 - John Quincy Adams becomes US Secretary
of State
1851 - The city of Des Moines, Iowa was
incorporated as Fort Des Moines
1861 - Fort Fauntleroy (Wingate), rapes Navaho
Indians
1915 - Southern Methodist University (Dallas Texas)
holds its 1st class
1915 - Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic
College in US, opens in NO LA
1917 - the Nogales jail
was overflowing with prisoners as draft dodgers from many states are trapped in
the border city.
1922 - US Congress passes the Cable Act, under
which an American women who marries an 'alien' will not lose citizenship;
neither will a women marrying an American automatically become a citizen
1950 - Nobel peace prize awarded to Ralph J Bunche
(1st black winner)
1957 - "Maverick" premieres
1958 - KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC)
begins broadcasting
1964 - "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at
Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 perfs
1973 - Henry Kissinger, sworn in as America's 1st
Jewish Secretary of State
1975 - 2nd assassination attempt on US
President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco
1976 - "Charlie's Angels"
starring Farrah Fawcett debuts
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World
Historical Highlights for Today
1499 - Switzerland became an independent state
1598 - Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is
indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army returns to
Edinburgh
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♫ Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers below in Birthdays Today
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My
Rambling Thoughts
Overcast day as a fall storm…rain…is moving in. Other parts of the
state are expecting flash floods, but our little mountain town will be getting
rain.
Last Friday I got a huge bill from my dentist, so I went to the
office for a discussion. It was closed. Went by today, it was closed. Called
and got a message they will be open tomorrow. Then today I got my mobile phone
bill on my phone. It made no sense. Since I am on auto-pay I called Verizon to
find an explanation. Very nice lady, dumb as a doorknob, but nice checked the
bill, said ‘I know this is very confusing, as I too am confused’. Step by step
it took 25 minutes for her to understand the bill, then in 5 minutes she
explained it to me. Turns out the main confusion was that with all the credits
and deals I got with my new phone and since I bought the phone of the last day
of the billing cycle, the bill I got was already ‘paid’ and I still had $8.00
credit. The ‘paid’ part was from my rebates and deals so nothing was charged to
my bank account. What a mess. Life with technology.
Listening to NPR I got a ton of education regarding Iran and
nuclear devices. I had wondered for a long time how Iran got the technology for
a nuclear power plant to begin with, long before they worked on a nuclear
bomb. Turns out the Shah of Iran was a
good friend to the USA and good ol’ Ike got the congress to approve giving them
training and scientists to build a power plant run on nuclear power. At that
time, while I was sitting in Elementary School, the Shah said they also wanted
a nuclear bomb for protection, but the US said no way Ali. Then when the
Iranian revolution took place and the US was no longer a friend of Iran, they still
wanted a nuclear bomb, so they pursued it on their own. Interesting to say the
least.
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Brain
Teasers
(answers at the end of post)
A
spoonerism is a pair of words that can have their initial sounds switched to
form new words. The pairs need only sound the same, not necessarily be spelled
the same (power saw & sour paw, horse cart & coarse heart). There may
sometimes be one or two connecting words (kick the stone & stick the cone,
king of the rats & ring of the cats). Given the following definitions, what
are the spoonerisms?
1) a circular depression & a part for a canine actor
2) a container for an alcoholic beverage & an insignificant insect
3) a container for a container & the bottom of a coffin
4) a cunning wolf relative & insect foot coverings
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Found
on You Tube with some relevance to today
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…Amazing
Facts…
One jar of Nutella is sold every 2.5 seconds
throughout the world.
In 2005, a portion of T-Rex bone was dissolved
in acid, it revealed soft tissue with sections of possible DNA.
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…Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS AGO-1990
The elementary schools are to be dismissed early at 11:45 a.m. one
day a month to give the teachers time to prepare lessons, to coordinate curricula
and to confer with parents.
The late-season heat wave continues to plague us. It was 89
degrees Thursday and only 47 degrees Monday night. No rain fell during the
week.
The tourist season business is down. Is this due to the heat ?
Econo Lodge has built their 600th hotel here at 2355 S. Beulah
Blvd., adding 85 rooms to our already crowded market.
On Monday there was a two-alarm fire at Ponderosa Paper
Products, where an APS utility pole fell on a transformer, which then blew up
and started the fire.
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…Harper’s
Index…
1,450 – minimum
number of starving sea lions that have beached themselves on the CA coast this
year
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…Instagram
Photo of the Day…
natgeoPhoto taken by @markosian while on assignment for @natgeo in
Egypt.
Egyptian youth play soccer near the Giza Pyramids in Egypt.
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…Foreigners
Don’t Understand These American Customs…
4. Our guys really like to cover up their thighs.
Walk down any U.S. street and we bet you can't find a man with
uncovered legs. In fact, men's shorts usually hit right above the knee — if not
longer. Well, apparently, this is pretty strange to people from everywhere
else, especially Europeans.
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…Unusual
Fact of the Day…
At the end of Prohibition, FDR said, "What America needs now
is a drink."
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2
jokes for the day
Heather: I noticed by this article that men
become bald much more than women because of the intense activity of their
brains.
John: Yes, and I notice that women do not grow beards because of the intense
activity of their chins!
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The "car way" of telling how far the
relationship is:
-- Trying to impress the woman: unlocks and opens the door, waits for her to
get inside, closes her door behind her
-- Dating: the guy unlocks her door and then goes around to his side to get in.
-- Engaged: The man opens his door leans over and unlocks her door and opens
it.
-- Married: The man gets in to the driver's seat unlocks the
doors and says "Aren't you getting in?"
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Yep,
It Really Happened
*-- Study: Efficient new catalyst may pave way for hydrogen economy
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MADISON, Wis. - Many researchers continue to hold hope for an eco-friendly
hydrogen economy -- a comprehensive energy-delivery industry based on hydrogen.
Hydrogen can be burned to create heat or used in fuel cells to make
electricity. It is also an efficient way to store energy. And unlike fossil
fuels, which give off harmful emissions when burned, water is hydrogen's only
byproduct.
But like so many other alternative energy panaceas, the technology remains
prohibitively expensive. Oxidation-resistant noble metals, like platinum, which
are used in water splitting devices, are rare and expensive -- limiting
hydrogen's potential as alternative fuel source.
Catalysts are substances which lower the amount of energy necessary to initiate
chemical reactions.
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have discovered a cheap and
efficient alternative to the use of noble gases as a catalyst in hydrogen
production -- a combination of phosphorus and sulfur (common elements) and
cobalt, a metal 1,000 times cheaper than the cheapest noble metals.
Because electricity is currently used to split water and produce hydrogen, some
have questioned the true environmental benefits of a hydrogen economy. But
engineers have been improving hydrogen-making technologies that use solar
energy for water-splitting.
Researchers at Wisconsin say their new catalyst also works with
sunlight-powered water-splitting devices.
"We have demonstrated a proof-of-concept device for using this cobalt
catalyst and solar energy to drive hydrogen generation, which also has the best
reported efficiency for systems that rely only on inexpensive catalysts and
materials to convert directly from sunlight to hydrogen," Song Jin, a
chemistry professor at Wisconsin, said in a press release.
Jin is the lead author of a new paper on the technology, published this week in
the journal Nature Materials.
"If you want to make a dent in the global warming problem, you have to
think big," Jin said. "Whether we imagine making hydrogen from
electricity, or directly from sunlight, we need square miles of devices to
evolve that much hydrogen. And there might not be enough platinum to do
that."
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Somewhat
Useless Information
While
Kentucky Fried Chicken has long promoted its use of 11 herbs and spices in its
Original Recipe, those who have attempted to "crack" the secret claim
that it’s merely a combination of five ingredients: flour, salt, sugar, black
pepper, and MSG.
Saffron is a slightly bitter, honey-like spice that comes from the crocus
plant. It takes approximately 75,000 flowers and about 200 hours of work to
produce 1 pound of dried saffron, which it why it's so expensive at $65 per
ounce.
The very first product in the Old Spice cologne and aftershave line was Early
American Old Spice in 1937, and it was made especially for women.
Despite its name, allspice is not a blend of ingredients; it comes from the
berries of the Pimenta dioica or Jamaican pepper plant.
The mace you see in the spice aisle at the supermarket has nothing to do with
the stuff you spray in the face of an attacker. Mace the spice comes from the
same seed that gives us nutmeg, and the two are very similar in flavor.
Countries with hotter climates usually has recipes that call for a lot of spicy
ingredients, particularly garlic, onion, allspice and oregano. These
ingredients have significant antibacterial properties, and in the days before
refrigeration, they not only flavored meat, but they also prevented it from
spoiling.
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Birthdays
Today
“()” indicates age at death
88 - Tom Lasorda [Thomas], baseball
manager (LA Dodgers)
81 - Lute Olson, UofAZ basketball coach
(75) - Michael Faraday, discovered principle
of electric motor d.1867
59 - Debby Boone, Hackensack NJ, singer (You
Light Up My Life)
57 - Joan Jett, American singer
(Blackhearts-I Love Rock 'n Roll)
55 - Scott Baio, Bkln, (Joanie Loves Chachi,
Charles in Charge, Zapped)
(41) - Anne of Cleves, Queen of England/4th wife of Henry VIII d.1557
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Historical
Obits Today
Irving
Berlin, composer (God Bless America)-1989@101
Eddie
Fisher, American singer-2010@82
Dorothy
Lamour, actress (Road to Bali, Road to Rio)-1996@81
George C.
Scott, American actor (Patton), aneurysm-1999@71
Gordon
Jump, television actor (WKRP), respiratory failure-2003@71
Dan Rowan, actor
(Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in), lymphoma-1987@65
Francisco
Vázquez de Coronado, Spanish explorer/conquistador, led expedition of 1st Europeans
to discover Grand Canyon, infection-1554@44
Nathan
Hale, US captain/patriot/spy, hanged-1776@21
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Brain
Teasers Answers
1) round hole & hound role
2) beer mug & mere bug
3) basket case & casket base
4) sly fox & fly socks
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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 contains
mistakes and sadly once 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…▲
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