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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 26/ Day: 178 Today: H 83°…L 46°
Wind: ave: 20mph; Gusts: 31mph Ave. humidity: 27%
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Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted
(Illinois)…1955
Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft
Corporation to work full time for the
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation…2008
Buenos Aires captured by British…1806
Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat
unwanted telemarketing calls and administered
by the Federal Trade Commission,
enrolls almost three-quarters of a million
phone numbers on its first day…2003
Federal Savings & Loan Association
created…1934
General James Wolfe begins the siege of
Quebec…1759
Irish uphold ban on divorce in
referendum …1986
New Amsterdam (now NYC) passes 1st speed limit
law in US …1652
Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich
Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000
riot against police, it lasts 3 days…1969
Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland…1963
US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia…1914
World's first ATM is installed in Enfield,
London…1967
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Day started off poorly, but got better…I think. While checking my computer this morning by reading some FB posts, the computer suddenly shut down. When I tried to reboot, I kept getting error messages. Tried Safe Mode, and all the other choices on that screen. Nada…just kept shutting down without opening correctly. Then on one of the reboots I did there was a restore button. Tried that, again, after waiting about 10 minutes for it to ‘restore’ still wouldn’t open. I decided to just shut it down, and start trying to figure out who could fix it. After about 45 minutes, I tried one last time before I headed to the repair shop. Like magic, it started up normally, with no problems. Not sure what happened, but it is working fine again. Maybe it was my ‘computer—heal thyself’ mantra.While I was awaiting this, I read the morning paper. Great news…for the next week, we are expecting record high temperatures. If the forecast is right, this will be the hottest few days we’ve had since 1973. The hottest day will be close to 98°. Not looking forward to that, but I do have a portable swamp cooler I haven’t used for three years here, so guess I will be getting that going. The worst part is that those high temperatures will certainly endanger the forest even more. Our fire danger signs around the forest have stated ‘extreme’ for the last week. That is the highest level the Forest Service has. The little piece of good news is that the forecast also shows ‘scattered thundershowers’ on a few of the days. This can be very good, or very bad…depending on there and when the lightning strikes. As we head into the 4th of July celebrations, this will be a difficult time in our little mountain town.Finally the Supreme Court has decided that the government cannot define marriage. Even several the people who voted for DOMA back in the Clinton administration are saying that it never should have been law. Since all this DOMA stuff has been in the news, I have wondered, and still wonder, why Clinton signed the bill…since he now says that it was a bad law. It is also interesting that now many more people will be able to file joint tax returns…which may not be a good thing for them. Better is that finally those couples will have access to so many government programs and benefits they have been denied for way too long. After leaving Tonalea, I got a call from one of my former employees. It seems that her ‘friend’…this was back in the 80’s…was very ill and she was unable to donate her sick leave to her sick friend. Thankfully the system at the time did allow her to donate sick leave, but there was a process that nothing to do with sexual preferance. I explained it to her, and it worked. The ‘friend’ got better and the two of them voluntarily left the BIA the next year. Haven’t heard from them, so don’t know any updates.The whole Paula Deen thing is getting very weird. She has apologized; she has had no one coming to the news organizations saying that she is a racist. In the beginning of the mess her brother was on trial for some mistreating an employee. Mrs. Deen was not on trial. She was simply a witness for her brother. A lawyer asked her if she had ever used the N-word. She admitted that after a Black man held a gun to her head during a bank robbery, she got home and used the N-word. In her interview today, I could see how that incident would be burned into her mind. Even if she had been on trial, this seems to be more about a powerful Southern White businesswoman who some people want to topple. With one admission of using the word and no one able to show this was a pattern in her entire life this episode needs to close.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Take the given words, and by moving a single
letter from one word to the other, make a pair of synonyms, or near synonyms.
For example, given: Boast - Hip, move the 's' from 'Boast' to 'Hip' creating
two synonyms: Boat - Ship.
1. Flat - Pump 2. Feather - Crate 3. Bet - Stop 4. Ear - Trip5. Lopes - Shills
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm Oxymorons
- Act naturally
- Advanced BASIC
- Almost exactly
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Value of supermarket gift cards the City of Los Angeles gave out as part of a one day gun buyback in December: $155,375
Picture of the Day: Pow Wow Season
Unusual Fact of the Day
So-called white chocolate isn't chocolate in the technical sense — it is comprised of cocoa butter, sugar, and milk, but no actual chocolate.Joke-of-the-day
A police recruit was asked during the exam, "What would you do if you had to arrest your own mother?"
He said: "Call for backup."
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
THE INTERSECTION RULE
It takes about as long for the car in front of you to start moving as it does for the traffic coming the other way to reach you.
Yeah, It Really Happened
ARANSAS PASS, Texas - A Texas police officer said a traffic stop took a turn for the bizarre when he was attacked by the motorist's monkey.Aransas Pass Police Officer Keith Moore, 21, who joined the police department three months ago, said he pulled over a truck for speeding Wednesday and when he reached into the vehicle to hand the citation to the driver, a monkey jumped up from the back seat and attacked his hand, KRIS-TV, Corpus Christi, Texas, reported Monday. Moore said it was difficult to explain the situation to his supervisor. "My sergeant thought I had initially got stung with a bee but it wasn't," Moore said. "I ended up telling him when I was walking back that it was a monkey that came out of nowhere." The incident was caught on Moore's police-issue video camera. "He's got a monkey and it attacked my hand. I'm not even kidding," Moore can be heard telling the sergeant on the recording. Police said they determined the monkey was a professional primate trained for appearances at carnivals and festivals. The driver was not penalized for the attack on the officer's hand.
Somewhat Useless Information
- It would take approximately 506,880,000 Post-it® Notes to circle the world once.
- In 2000 Llze Vitolina created a line of avant-garde evening wear made from Post-it® Notes. She made 11 dresses total, including a wedding gown, hats, and a bridal bouquet.
- Artist Melynda Schwier-Gierard used 60,000 1 1/2 in x 2 in Post-it® Notes to create an art piece of uniquely textured, wall-sized panels.
- Esquire magazine named inventor Art Fry one of "The 100 Best People in the World."
- The name "Post-it" and the signature canary yellow color are trademarks of company 3M.
Calendar Information
Happening This Week:
23-30
Carpenter Ant
Awareness Week
Fish Are Friends,
Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week
National Mosquito
Control Awareness Week
27-7/4
*National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
27-30
*National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
27-30
Today Is
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Decide To Be Married Day
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"Happy Birthday To You" Day
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Industrial Workers of The World Day
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National Bomb Pop Day
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National
Columnists Day
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National Hand Shake Day
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National HIV Testing Day
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Djibouti:
Independence Day (1977 from France)
Today’s Events through History
1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark
Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV…1966
1st woman's magazine "Ladies'
Mercury" published (London)…1693
Drifting Goose Reserve will be created out of
town sites number 119, 120, and 121
north, of range 63 west in the Dakota
Territory today. It is created for the
"MAG-A-BO-DAS or DRIFTING
GOOSE Band of the YANKTONAIS SIOUX."
Jan & Dean release "Little Old Lady
From Pasadena"…1964
North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks
members to aid South Korea, Harry
Truman orders Air Force & Navy into
Korean conflict…1950
Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for
conducting an academy for black
females at Canterbury CN…1833
Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas
to help minorities…1979
US president Nixon visits USSR…1974
Today’s Birthdays
In their 80’s
H Ross Perot, billionaire/presidental
candidate is 83
In their 70’s
Bruce E Babbitt, (Gov-D-AZ)/secretary of
interior is 75
In their 60’s
Julia Duffy [Julia Margaret Hinds], actress
(Newhart, Baby Talk) is 62
Under 30
Khloe
Kardashian, reality television star is 29
Remembered
for being born today
Paul F Conrad, political cartoonist (Pulitzer
1964, 71, 84) [1924-2010]
Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother
Earth) [1869-1940]
Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt
Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning) [1927-2004]
Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer [1880-1968]
Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player
(1941-57) [1913-1993]
Today’s Historical Obits
Shelby Foote, American author and historian…2005…at
88
Jack Lemmon, actor…cancer…2001…at 76
Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's
About Time)…stroke…1982…at 52
George Papadopoulos, Greek dictator…1999…at 80
Joseph Smith Jr, founder/leader (Mormon
Church)…shot by mob…1844…at 38
James Smithson, dies, his will establishes
Smithsonian Institute…1829…at 64
Gale Storm, TV Personality…2009…at 87
Answer: Brain
Teasers
1. Fat - Plump 2. Father - Create 3. Best - Top 4. Tear - Rip 5. Slopes - Hills
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.
§ And That Is All for
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