6-29-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 180 / Week: 27 
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 10%
    H 84° L 54° Ave. humidity: 38%
    Wind: ave:   6mph; Gusts:  20mph  
    Average High: 82° Record High:  93° (1990)
    Average Low: 45° Record Low:  30° (1913)
           
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today
1534 - Jacques Cartier discovers Prince Edward Islands Canada
1613 - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burns down
1891 - US National Forest Service organized
1949 - South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages
1969 - 1st Jewish worship service at White House
1972 - Supreme Court rules (5-4) that Death Penalty is cruel & unusual
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Today’s Birthdays below
 
My Rambling Thoughts   
Flagstaff is truly a very interesting town. Today, as summer really takes off, there are three big crowd drawers happening here in the little mountain town. There is a pro-rodeo, returning after several years of not happening here. There is the annual gay pride festival, and a folk festival. I realize that the US is changing its views of gays, but what other city would put a Pro rodeo and a Gay Pride Festival in the same town at the same time? Things seem to be going well at all three events. Our local Flagscanner on FB has not reported any incidents at any of the venues. I’ll really be impressed if we make it through Saturday night with no issues. The gay bars are downtown along with the college bars while the Cowboy bars on far from downtown. The bars that have folk music are also downtown.
Had a long talk with Martha this morning. For some unknown reason we have been playing word games on FB but haven’t really talked for a long time. She has been in this log cabin home about 25 years out in the forest. Beautiful setting, beautiful house. Sadly, some of the appliances aren’t holding up that well. Her fridge/freezer and dishwasher are not working right. The leak from the ice-maker has warped some of the kitchen and guest bath floor. She is a little overwhelmed right now, but is working on figuring it all out. Hard to find repair services in Flagstaff and she lives way out of town, making it even harder.
Not a lot of breeze today and it was hot for Flagstaff. Anxious for the sun to set and the cool breezes to begin.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
I can be cracked, I can be made.
I can be told, I can be played.
What am I?
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s Index 
Percentage of single people who say they cannot define a ‘date’: 69
Unusual Fact of the Day
After losing the White House, John Quincy Adams was elected to Congress in 1830. He served until his death in 1848.
Trivia about AZ…
The battleship USS Arizona was named in honor of the state. It was commissioned in 1913 and launched in 1915 from the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was sunk at Pearl Harbor on Dec 7, 1941
World War II brought many military personnel to train at Luke and Thunderbird fields in Glendale.
Interesting facts about Islam…
"Allah" is an Arabic word that means "God". Muslims also believe that "Allah" is the personal name of God.
**NEW**Weather Facts…
In 1859, the largest known geomagnetic storm struck the Caribbean, causing an aurora and telegraphs could even operate without a power source.
**NEW**People Facts…
Karl Pillemer, a professor, performed a study on thousands of elderly people and what advice they had about life. On happiness, there was a consensus: “the elders viewed happiness as a choice, not the result of how life treats you.”
**NEW**Historical Facts…
The original Cinderella was Egyptian and wore fur slippers.
Joke-of-the-day
Ladies and gentlemen, hobos and tramps,
Bug-eyed mosquitoes and bowlegged ants!
I'm about to tell you a story I've never heard before,
So pull up a chair and sit on the floor.
Admission is free, so pay at the door.
One fine day, in the middle of the night,
two, dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back, they faced each other,
drew their swords and shot each other.
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
and saved the lives of the two dead boys.
If you don't believe my lies are true,
ask the blind man, he saw it too!
Rules of Thumb:   
TRANSLATING GREEK
If you can't identify a word in a Greek sentence, it is a verb with a prefix. To figure it out, go through the lexicon chopping off one letter from the front at a time.
Yeah, It Really Happened
LONDON (UPI) - The Earth's magnetic north pole is drifting southward towards Siberia, according to researchers at the European Space Agency (ESA).
As part of ESA's Swarm mission, scientists have been mapping the planet's magnetic field with the help three satellites. Each satellite is equipped with several Earth-studying tools -- including magnetometers, which measure the magnetic field's strength and direction.
"I started my career in magnetometry and the accuracy we had then in the laboratories was less than what we can fly in space now," Volker Liebig, the director of Earth observation at ESA, recently told BBC News. "So what we have on Swarm is fantastic, but we need long time series to understand fully the Earth's magnetic field, and we will get that from this mission."
Results from the Swarm mission suggest that not only is magnetic north on the move, but the entire magnet field is weakening, leaving Earth potentially exposed to additional cosmic radiation. This, however, is considered normal, with the magnet cloak likely to regain its strength in the near future.
Analysis of ancient rocks buried deep in the Earth lead scientists to believe Earth's magnetic north and south poles switch every few million years. The latest from Swam suggests the poles may once again be preparing to trade sides; though the flip-flop itself takes several thousand years.
A study published in 2011 surmised that the shifting magnetic poles are affected by the movement of Earth's tectonic plates.
Currently, Swarm satellites have only honed in on the general magnetic field generated by Earth's molten core. But scientists expect to study more delicate magnetic fields in the future, such as the field generated by the movement of the world's oceans.
"These initial results demonstrate the excellent performance of Swarm," said Rune Floberghagen, ESA's Swarm Mission Manager. "With unprecedented resolution, the data also exhibit Swarm's capability to map fine-scale features of the magnetic field."
Somewhat Useless Information   
Popcorn has an exceptionally interesting history dated back in the 16th century and the Aztec Indians.
Aztecs were the first to eat popcorn and they also used it as decoration for ceremonial headdresses, necklaces and ornaments on statues of their gods, including Tlaloc, the god of rain and fertility.
 “And also a number of young women danced, having so vowed, a popcorn dance. As thick as tassels of maize were their popcorn garlands. And these they placed upon (the girls’) heads”, Bernardino de Sahagun says.
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
27 -7/4
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness Week
28-29
Water Ski Days
Today Is  
America's Kids Day
ARRL (American Radio Relay League) Field Day
Camera Day
Log Cabin Day
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Independence Day (Seychelles-1976—from UK)
Isra Al Mi'Raj (Ascent of the Prophet Muhammad - Islam)
                                                       
Today’s Events through History  
1540 - English ex-chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic
1858 - Great fire in London docks
1888 – 1st (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on wax cylinder.
1916 - Boeing aircraft flies for 1st time
2007 - Two car bombs are found in the heart of London at Piccadilly Circus.
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Robert Evans, director/actor (Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown) is 84
Gary Busey, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born) is 70
Richard Lewis, comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love) is 67
Fred Grandy, (Rep-R-Iowa, 1986- )/actor (Love Boat) is 66
Remembered for being born today
1803-1868 - John Newton Brown, American publisher (d. 1868)
1886-1983 - James Van Der Zee, African American photographer
1901-1967 - Nelson Eddy, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald)
1907-1961 - Joan Davis, actress (I Married Joan)
1919-1983 - Slim Pickens, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles)
1941-1998 - Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist
1943-2003 - Little Eva (Eva Boyd), pop singer (Locomotion) 
Historical Obits’ Today                                                           
Katharine Hepburn, actress (African Queen), 2003, @96
Cameron Mitchell, actor (Man on Tightrope), lung cancer, 1994, @76
Lana Turner, actress (Madame X), cancer, 1995, @75
Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress, cancer, 2002, @74
Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Monus), 1977, @70
Joel Siegel, film critic, cancer, 2007, @63
Bob Crane, actor (Hogan-Hogan's Heroes), murdered in Phx, 1978, @49
Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, actor (Keystone comedies), heart attack, 1933, @ 46
Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle), car crash, 1967, @34
Brain Teasers                                         
 A Joke!
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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I retired in '06--at the ripe old age of 57. I enjoy blogging, photography, traveling, and living life to it's fullest.