6-20-14


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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 171 / Week: 25 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 3%
    H 79° L 46° Ave. humidity: 31%
    Wind: ave:   11mph; Gusts:  19mph  
    Average High: 79° Record High:  92° (1936)
    Average Low: 43° Record Low:  30° (1979)
        
Quote of the Day
Today’s Historical Highlights

  451 - Germans & Romans beat Attila the Hun 
1214 - The University of Oxford receives its charter
1782 - Congress approves Great Seal of US & eagle as its symbol
1863 - 1st bank chartered in US (National Bank of Davenport Iowa)
1895 - 1st female PhD (science) earned (Caroline Willard Baldwin) from an American University
1911 - NAACP incorporates (NY)
1942 - Adolf Eichmann proclaims deportation of Dutch Jews
1943 - National Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) organizes
1944 - Congress charters Central Intelligence Agency
1963 - US & USSR agree to set up "Hot Line"
1971 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Heritage Golf Open
1990 - 40,000-50,000 die in a (7.6) earthquake in Iran

  Today’s Birthdays:   

How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
My Free Rambling Thoughts   

A much better day today as far as the wind goes. It was actually pleasant to be outside and enjoying the weather.

I went to the Walk-In Ortho clinic here in Flag. Wow, what a deal. The Summit Center does all kinds of ortho stuff with a two story building full of MDs and PA’s. The walk-in took about 30 minutes to fill out all the forms, then about a 10 minute wait, then about 25 minutes with the PA. He threw in a new possible diagnosis—pseudo-gout. He took new X-rays and took my wrist and pushed, pulled, had me push and pull. He said there was not enough swelling to take out any liquid or crystals, so he just said it might be gout or pseudo-gout. Wait 2 weeks and come back if it still hurts. The pain is not that bad but I really don’t like the idea that no one knows what it is. I’m dealing with that with my angioedema after three specialists. On a philosophic level, the wrist is worse because the minor pain is always there. My PCP says he doesn’t think it is gout or pseudo-gout since the wrist brace is working well. With real gout, according to him, I wouldn’t be able to have the brace touch the wrist. His office manager was not a work, and he is getting more than upset about her many ‘family emergencies’. I told him that I supervised on the Rez for many years, and sometimes you just have to put your foot down. He wants a new blood draw, but he had patients and I don’t think he really knows how to do the office manager’s part of the computer system. I’ll call tomorrow.

Cheryl, Mary and I had our weekly lunch. Then we went over to Mary’s to see the guys working on her new deck. What an amazing project…a raised paver outdoor area with a nice retaining wall. Much larger than I thought it would be and is going to be a great place to relax during the summer months.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers
Each pair of definitions is for two words, where the second word is the first word with a letter deleted (example: brand & band). The length of the first word in each pair is provided, along with the position of the deleted letter to obtain the second word.

1) to interfere in a harmful or disruptive manner (6 letters) & (delete 3rd letter) to decrease gradually in width or thickness
2) a line that deviates from straightness in a smooth continuous fashion (5 letters) & (delete 4th letter) a remedy
3) a type of bird (5 letters) & (delete 1st letter) a length measurement
4) to penetrate, as by stabbing (6 letters) & (delete 4th letter) a part separated from the whole

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

 
Martin Landeau and Barbara Bain sing




OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Number of golf courses worldwide that are operated by the US Military: 151

Unusual Fact of the Day

The hood ornament of a Rolls Royce is named "The Spirit of Ecstasy."

Presidential Fun Facts…

Andrew Johnson: No formal education. Vice President under Lincoln. On May 29, 1865 issued Amnesty Proclamation, pardoning all Confederates except those with property in excess of $ 20,000 and certain Confederate leaders. On December 6, 1865 the 13th amendment, officially abolishing slavery, was ratified. On march 30, 1867 the U.S. purchased Alaska from Russia for $ 7.2 million. Johnson was married at a younger age than any other president. He was 18 on May 5, 1827 and Eliza McCardle was 16. He is the only president to serve in the Senate after his presidency. He was host to the first Queen to first the White house. Queen Emma of Hawaii. Johnson was the only president to be impeached by the House, but on March 26, 1868 was acquitted by the Senate by a one-vote margin. Has was buried beneath a willow tree he planted himself with a shoot taken from a tree at Napoleon's tomb.

Ben Franklin on Character…

Humility. Imitate Jesus and Socrates

Pen Names of famous authors…

J. K. Rowling Pen name: Robert Galbraith
J.K. Rowling, author of the famous Harry Potter series, assumed her pseudonym in order to “publish without hype or expectation.” She called it a “liberating experience” and “a pure pleasure to get feedback from publishers and readers under a different name.” In 2013, Rowling published The Cuckoo’s Calling under her pseudonym.

Facts about SPACE…

Big Dipper
The big dipper about which a number of people talk is not a constellation. According to some reliable sources it is a form of asterism. It can be defined as some pattern in which starts from groups. It should also be noted that an asterism might contain stars from a number of constellations.

Joke-of-the-day

The National Game warden put out a warning to all hikers in his area. Warning that they should wear small bells on their boots so not to startle the bears. To distinguish the grizzly bear the notice read-- small bear’s droppings are small with nut and berries in it. Grizzly bear droppings are much larger with nuts and berries and little tiny bells in it. 

Rules of Thumb:   

THE TRASH RULE OF THREE
You have to look through a wastebasket three times to find a missing piece of paper.

Yeah, It Really Happened

PARMA, Ohio (UPI) - "Check point ahead! Turn now!" That's the message that was written on a sign that Doug Odolecki was holding up while standing on an Ohio street corner on Friday night. The final two words of that sign earned Odolecki a ticket and a court date because they were allegedly obstructing official police business. Odolecki was warning drivers in Parma about the upcoming drunken-driving checkpoint for about an hour before Police Lt. Brian McCann asked him to remove the last two words from the sign. When Odolecki refused, he was given a ticket by officer James Manzo. Odolecki told Cleveland.com that McCann and Manzo "tried to be a civil as they could knowing they were violating someone's rights." Attorney John Gold is representing Odolecki pro bono, because he supports "the police accountability activist movement." "The problem here is not the sign in general. It's the part of the sign that instructed drivers to turn that the officers had an issue with," Gold said. "But I think regardless it's protected speech under the First Amendment."

Somewhat Useless Information   

Solstice comes from the Latin (sol, sun and sistit, stands). For several days before and after each solstice, the sun appears to stand still in the sky as its noontime elevation does not seem to change. At the solstices the sun's apparent position on the celestial sphere reaches its greatest distance above or below the celestial equator, directly overhead at noon at the Tropic of Cancer.
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In the Northern Hemisphere the longest day and shortest night of the year occur on June 21, marking the beginning of summer. At winter solstice, about December 22, the sun is overhead at noon at the Tropic of Capricorn; this marks the beginning of winter in the Northern Hemisphere. For several days before and after each solstice the sun appears to stand still in the sky, i.e., its noontime elevation does not seem to change from day to day.

Calendar Information        

This Week’s Observances:
13-20
National Hermit Week

14-22
Worldwide Knit (and crotchet) in Public Week

15-21
Animal Rights Awareness Week
Universal Father's Week
Meet A Mate Week
Old Time Fiddlers Week

Today Is  

American Eagle Day 
Ice Cream Soda Day
National Flip Flop Day
Take Your Dog To Work Day
Ugliest Dog Day
UN World Refugee Day
World Productivity Day
World Juggling Day
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Admission Day (West Virginia-1863-35th state)
Flag Day (Argentina)

                                                      
Today’s Events through History  

1675 - Start of "King Philip's war
1756 - Siraj ud-Daulah Nawab of Bengal takes Calcutta from the British 
1819 - 320 ton Savannah becomes 1st steamship to cross any ocean (Atlantic)
1907 - 1st Portland Rose festival
1950 - Joe Dimaggio's 2,000th hit, Yanks beat Indians 8-2
1980 - "Blues Brothers" with Dan Akwoyd & John Belushi opens in 594 theaters
1982 - Pete Rose is 5th to appear in 3,000 games (Cobb, Musial, Aaron, Yaz)

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

Martin Landau, Brooklyn, actor (Mission Impossible) is 86
Danny Aiello, actor (Moonstruck, Radio Days) is 81
John Mahoney, actor (Fraiser) is 74
[Morna] Anne Murray, singer (Snow Bird) is 69
Bob Vila, television presenter is 68
Lionel Richie, singer (Commodores, Hello, Penny Lover) is 65
John Goodman, actor (Dan Conner-Roseanne, Babe) is 62
Nicole Kidman, Honolulu, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away) is 47

Remembered for being born today

1723-1816 - Adam Ferguson, Scottish sociologist/historian
1770-1840 - Moses Waddel, American educator/minister and bestselling author
1891-1976 - John A. Costello, second Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland
1907-1984 - Lillian Hellman, playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes)
1909-1959 - Errol Flynn, actor (Captain Blood, Robin Hood)
1924-2001 - Chet Atkins, Luttrell Tenn, guitarist (Me & My Guitar)
1925-1971 - Audie Murphy, most decorated American WW II hero/actor

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Bob Stump, AZ politician, 2003, blood disease, @76
Bruno Frank, writer, heart attack, 1945, @58
Gordon Jones, actor (Mike the Cop-Abbott & Costello), heart attack, 1963, @52
Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel, gangster, shot dead, 1947, @41

Brain Teasers                                         

1) tamper & taper
2) curve & cure
3) finch & inch
4) pierce & piece

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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