6-30-13


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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 27/ Day: 181   Today: H 91°L 58°
Wind: ave:   15mph; Gusts:  24mph  Ave. humidity:  27%
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Record low
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46°
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31° (1913)
92° (1990)

Quote of the Day



Today’s Historical Highlights
"Gone With the Wind" by Margaret Mitchell, published…1936
1st Corvette manufactured…1953
Car crashes into Glasgow International Airport in Scotland, believed to be a terrorist 
     attack…2007
Congress creates Indian Territory (now Oklahoma)…1834
East & West Germany merge their economies…1990
Excelsior diamond (blue-white 995 carats) discovered…1893
Federal Equal Rights Amendment fails 3 states short of ratification…1982
Leopoldville Congo is renamed Kinshasa…1966
Mahatma Gandhi's 1st arrest, campaigning for Indian rights in South Africa…1914
Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt…2012
Philippines close all non-catholic Chinese restaurants…1755
Superman 1st appears in DC Comics' Action Comics Series issue #1…1938
Transistor as a substitute for Radio tubes announced (Bell Labs)…1948
US Fish & Wildlife Service forms…1940

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



My Free Rambling Thoughts   
A little breeze and some cloud cover made today a little more bearable. Still H*O*T but not as bad as other parts of the state. It was still not a great idea to spend much time outside.
 
Our president’s trip to Africa is giving me so many memories of my trips over there. As I read of their various visits, I am returned to the areas I have visited. Great memories. Sad to see the problems in Egypt are on the rise, again. Difficult to hear that a young American ESL teacher was stabbed to death at a protest over there. So hard to understand.
 
The 100th Tour De France has started and many of the athletes are claiming that this generation of riders is drug free. Watching the race is exciting, but the damage to the reputation has been done and it will take more than the 100th race milestone to convince the world that they have fixed their issues. I certainly hope they are correct.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Can you decipher this phrase:
friends standing miss friends

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

Hmmmm…Oxymorons
Peace offensive Peacekeeper missile Plastic wood Positively cynical Press release
Ok, then?



Harper’s Index    
  • Percentage of Americans under the age of 30 who can identify Roe V Wade as a decision about abortion: 44
  • Number of India’s state legislators charged with ‘crimes against women’: 43

Picture of the Day: Flagstaff…long ago

Unusual Fact of the Day
In Paris, there are more dogs than there are children, and they seem to be treated with equal amounts of pampering. Collectively, Parisians spend nearly $500,000 every day on health and grooming for their pets.
Joke-of-the-day
A police man pulls over a drunk driver for not stopping at a stop sign and asks the driver if he saw the stop sign.
The driver replies "I did but it turned red too fast for me to stop."  
Rules of Thumb:   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
CELLARING WINE
When cellaring a wine, add about 1 year of aging time for every 2 degrees the cellar averages below 65 degrees Fahrenheit.    
Yeah, It Really Happened
AUSTIN, Texas - An invasion of "crazy" ants in areas of the U.S. Gulf Coast has wreaked havoc on electronic devices, especially air conditioning units, experts say. Tawny crazy ants, named for their color and their "herky-jerky" pattern of foraging, first showed up near Houston in 2002. Hailing from northern Argentina and southern Brazil, they seek out cavities to nest in, like walls, basements -- or air conditioning units. Less than 1/8 inch long, their small size allows them to crawl inside cellphones, computers and appliances, where protected cavities are "just great" for them, Edward LeBrun, a researcher at the University of Texas, told LiveScience. Reproducing in large numbers, sometimes outnumbering local species of ants 100-to-1, they've developed a preference for swarming into electronics devices like air conditioners and farm equipment like pumps, experts said. In one case, the ants quickly spread to 90 out of 150 air-conditioning units in an apartment building in Waco, Texas, said Mike Matthews, who works for Austin-area pest control business The Bug Master. "When you open these things up, you see thousands of the ants, just completely filling them up," he said. That infestation took about two months to control, he said.  
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Mosquito repellents don't repel. They hide you. The spray blocks the mosquito's sensors so they don't know you're there.
  • Dentists have recommended that a toothbrush be kept at least 6 feet away from a toilet to avoid
  • airborne particles resulting from the flush.
  • The liquid inside young coconuts can be used as substitute for blood plasma.
  • No piece of paper can be folded in half more than 7 times.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
23-30
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week
27-7/4
*National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
27-30
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
Water Ski Days

Today Is                                                                      
·        Descendants Day
·        Leap Second Time Adjustment Day
·        Meteor Day
·        National Handshake Day
·        NOW (National Organization For Women) Day
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·        Congo: Independence Day (1960 from Belgium)
·        Guatemala: Armed Forces Day
·        Sudan: Revolution Day (1989 coup)

Today’s Events through History  
"Brenda Starr" cartoon strip, by Dale Messick, 1st appears…1940
17-day newspaper strike in NY begins…1945
Haile Selassie asks League of Nations for sanctions against Italy…1936
London Tower Bridge opens 1906 - Pure Food & Drug Act & Meat Inspection 
     Act adopted…1894
Spanish conquerors under Cortes take gold from Aztecs…1520
Treaty with the SENECA Indians is concluded today on Buffalo Creek, in Ontario 
     County, New York. All SENECA lands in Ontario County are ceded to the "Holland 
     Land Company", and they will be given new lands on Lake Erie…1802

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 80’s
Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place) is 89

In their 60’s
Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64) is 75

In their 50’s
Vincent D'Onofrio, actor [Law and Order] is 54
David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang) is 57
Ken Olin, actor (Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street) is 59

In their 40’s
"Iron" Mike Tyson, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90) is 47

Under 30
 Michael Phelps, swimmer (16 Olympic medals) is 28

Remembered for being born today
Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion) [1934-1997]
Georges Duhamel, French author [1884-1966]
Susan Hayward, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa) [1917-1975]
Lena Horne, actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz) [1917-2010]
David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve) [1914-1995]
William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP [1819-1887]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Chet Atkins, American country guitar player and producer…cancer…2001…at 77
Gale Gordon, comedian (Our Miss Brooks, Here's Lucy)…1995…at 89
Buddy Hackett, comic , actor…stroke…2003…at 78
Margaux Hemingway, model/actress (Lipstick)…suicide…1996…at 41
Mary Livingstone, [Sadye Marks] Comedienne, (Jack Benny)…heart disease…1983…at 77
James Oglethorpe, English general and founder of the state of Georgia…1785…at 88
Yitzhak Shamir, Israeli Prime Minister…Alzheimer's disease…2012…at 96

Answer: Brain Teasers
Misunderstanding between friends
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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