7-18-14

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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 199 / Week: 29 
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 60%
    H 81° L 55° Ave. humidity: 57%
    Wind: ave:   2mph; Gusts:  5mph  
    Average High: 82° Record High:  93° (2005)
    Average Low: 51° Record Low:  42° (1950)
   
Quote of the Day

Historical Highlights for Today
    64 - Great Fire of Rome begins under the Emperor Nero
1743 - 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (NY Weekly Journal)
1768 - Boston Gazette publishes "Liberty Song", America's 1st patriotic song
1925 - Adolf Hitler publishes Mein Kampf (original title was the catchy "Four and a Half Years (of Struggle) Against Lies, Stupidity and Cowardice")
1932 - US & Canada sign a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1968 - Intel Corporation is founded in Santa Clara, California
1977 - Vietnam becomes member of UN
2013 - Detroit, Michigan, files for bankruptcy to become the largest US municipal bankruptcy at $18.5 Billion
  Birthdays Today:   
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today below
My Rambling Thoughts   
A very warm day, with little breeze, and clouds that refuse to drop any moisture to cool things off.
Had a really good lunch with my retirement buddies. Mary leave next week for 2 weeks at her family oceanside cabin in Oregon. Cheryl got her eyes and ears checked and has maybe found a good deal on hearing aids. Also the audiologist suggested that meds could be calling the hearing loss. She is checking back to see how long she has been on the med and if that’s when the problem started. Hmmm
What a disaster…can’t believe anyone would shoot down a passenger plane. It is so sick. War is hell with innocents always being killed. It sounds like these innocents did nothing more than fly over a country at 30,000+ feet. From what we know now, the passengers had no connection to the war.
Game  Center (answers at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
Can you decipher this phrase?
1) Rib
2) Rib <--- o:p="">
3) Rib <--- o:p="">
4) Rib
5) Rib <--- o:p="">
6) Rib
7) Rib <--- o:p="">
Lifestyle  Substance:     
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

Jessica Tandy/Hume Cronyn

Bobby Sherman--Easy Come, Easy Go

Mandela on Oprah

Harper’s Index 
Percentage of homicides by white women of black men that are deemed justifiable on the grounds of self-defense: 14
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By black women on white men: 3
Unusual Fact of the Day
The Bee Gees never liked their name. In fact, after Robert Stigwood signed on as the band’s producer in 1967, the group lobbied to change it. But what could possibly be better than The Bee Gees? The band suggested Rupert’s World. Luckily, their manager nixed the notion.
Trivia about AZ…
Between the years 1692 and 1711 Father Eusebio Kino focused on area missionary work. During the time many grain and stock farms began.
Interesting facts about Islam…
Islam and the "Nation of Islam" are two different religions. Islam is a religion for all races and enjoins the worship of the one unseen God who, orthodox Muslims believe, never took human form. The "Nation", on the other hand, is a movement geared towards non-whites and teaches that God appeared in the form of Fard Muhammad in 1930 and that Elijah Muhammad (a man who died in 1975) was a prophet of God. These beliefs clearly contradict the basic Islamic theology outlined in the Qur'an. The followers of "the Nation" adhere to some Islamic principles that are mixed with many other teachings that are alien to Islam. To better understand the difference between the two, read about Malcolm X, his pilgrimage to Mecca and his subsequent comments to the media. Islam teaches equality amongst all the races (Holy Qur'an 49:13).
Weather Facts…
Contrary to popular belief, lightning travels from the ground upwards not from the sky downwards.
People Facts…
There's a guy named Fire Penguin Disco Panda. He lives in CA.
Historical Facts…
In 1518, a "dancing plague" struck Strasbourg, Alsace, whereby hundreds of people danced fervently in the streets over the period of a month. Some suffered heart attacks or strokes, and many others died from sheer exhaustion. It remains unexplained.
Retro Native Humor…
Lakota guys and a dude from New York are on a hunting trip. On the first day, one Lakota goes out, and less than an hour later returns with a deer. The guy from New York is blown away. "How did you get your deer so fast?!" "Easy" says the Lakota guy, "I looked for tracks, found them, followed them, and got my deer." 
The next day the 2nd Lakota guy goes out, and less than an hour later returns with a deer. The guy from New York is blown away again, just flabbergasted. "How did you get YOUR deer so fast?!" "It's simple" says the Lakota guy, "I looked for tracks, found them, followed them, and there was the deer."
On the third day, the New York guy goes out. He doesn't return, and when darkness begins to fall, the two Lakota guys go looking for him. They found him lying at the base of a hill, bloodied up, clothes torn, and bones broken. "What happened to you?" they asked. "I did just what you told me to do, I looked for tracks, found them, followed them, and the damn train ran me over."
Common Phrase Origins…
Don’t Throw the Baby Out with the Bathwater
Meaning: Hang on to valuable things when getting rid of unnecessary things
Hisory: During the 1500s, most people bathed once a year. Even when they did bathe, the entire family used the same tubful of water. The man of the house bathed first, followed by other males, then females, and finally the babies. You can imagine how thick and cloudy the water became by that time, so the infants’ mothers had to take care not to throw them out with the bathwater when they emptied the tub.
Joke-of-the-day
HOW TO KEEP A HEALTHY LEVEL OF INSANITY & DRIVE OTHER PEOPLE INSANE
1. Page yourself over the intercom. Don't disguise your voice.
2. Find out where your boss shops and buy exactly the same outfits. Always wear them one day after your boss does. This is especially effective if your boss is the opposite gender.
3. Put mosquito netting around your cubicle.
4. Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.
5. Put your garbage can on your desk and label it "IN."
6. When driving colleagues around, insist on keeping your car's windshield wipers running during all weather conditions to keep 'em tuned up.
7. Reply to everything someone says with, "That's what you think."
8. Highlight irrelevant information in scientific papers, then cc them to your boss.
9. Finish all your sentences with "in accordance with the prophecy."
10. At lunchtime, sit in your parked car and point a hair dryer at passing cars to see if they slow down.
11. Specify that your drive-thru order is "to go."
12. Go to a poetry recital and ask why the poems don't rhyme. 
Rules of Thumb:   
PACKING UP A ROCK BAND
If you are in a four-piece rock band, it takes about eight hours to pack up your equipment, travel to your local gig, unload, set up, play one set, break down, load up, and return home. Add one-half hour for each additional piece, and add one hour for each additional set played.
Yeah, It Really Happened
FRANKLIN COUNTY , Fla., July 17 (UPI) --A 12-year-old Florida boy was arrested for the second time in a month after he took a school bus for a joyride.
During his unsanctioned trip back in June, Michael Propst took a Bay District school bus to Walmart.
The second theft occurred less than 24 hours after Propst made a court appearance for taking the first bus.
Parker police had a sense of déjà vu after finding out about the missing bus.
"They had a bus stopped with a juvenile driver," Parker Police Chief Charles Sweatt told WMBB. "Our initial reaction was 'oh no, not again.'"
In order to get the bus this time, Propst stole a car from his aunt and took it to Parker Elementary. After taking the bus, he drove it for more than two hours to Franklin County.
"When we were advised that it was the same juvenile driving the bus that had been responsible for the last bus theft from Parker we said 'No way,'" Sweatt said.
An officer returned Propst to Bay County after he was picked up.
"He's not unruly or resists arrest or anything of that nature from what I understand," said Sweatt. "He's just into stealing vehicles."
Somewhat Useless Information   
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman, who developed many devices, such as the phonograph, the motion picture camera, and a long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.
Edison had been married twice and he taught his second wife Mina Miller Morse code so that they could communicate in secret by tapping into other’s hands in social events or when her family was around.
Check Your Calendar
Observances This Week:
13-19
Sports Cliché Week
15-21
Rabbit Week; National Baby Food Week; National Ventriloquism Week  
18-25
Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week
Today Is  
Global Hug For Your Kids Day
Mandela Day
National Caviar Day 
National Get Out of the Doghouse Day
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Constitution Day (Uruguay-1830)
                                                         
Today’s Events through History  
1931 - 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1952 - KWGN TV channel 2 in Denver, CO (IND) begins broadcasting
1974 - World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1984 - Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1994 - Crayola announces introduction of scented crayons
Birthday’s Today                                                        
Dick Totten Button, figure skater (Olympic-gold-48, 52) is 85
James Brolin, actor (Dr Kiley-Marcus Welby) is 74
Martha Reeves, singer (& Vandellas-Dancing in St) is 73
Bobby Sherman, singer is 71
Richard Branson, British entrepreneur (Virgin Atlantic) is 64
Ricky Skaggs, country singer (Heartbroke) is 60
Vin Diesel, American actor is 47
Kristen Bell, American actress is 34
Chace Crawford, American actor is 29
Remembered for being born today
1720-1793 - Gilbert White, "father of British naturalists"
1895-1954 - Machine Gun Kelly [Georgio Barnes], gangster
1903-1978 - Chill Wills, actor (Frontier Circus, Rounders)
1906-1992 - S I Hayakawa, (Sen-R-CA), linguist (Language in Action)
1909-1989 - Andrei Gromyko, USSR, diplomat/USSR President
1909-1994 - Harriet Hilliard Nelson, singer/actress (Ozzie & Harriet)
1911-2003 - Hume Cronyn, actor (World According to Garp, Cocoon)
1913-2012 - Marvin Miller, actor (Space Patrol, Millionaire)
1918-2013 - Nelson Mandela, political prisoner (ANC)/President\Nobel (1993)
1937-2005 - Hunter S. Thompson, journalist and author
Historical Obits Today                                                           
William Westmoreland, American military officer, 2005, @91
Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook & Son), 1892, @83
Eugene Shoemaker, astronomer, car crash, 1997, @69
Horatio Alger Jr, clergyman/author (Disagreeeable Woman), 1899, @67
Benito Juarez, Cuban justice/general, heart attack, 1872, @66
John Paul Jones, American naval commander kidney failure, 1792, @45
Bobby Fuller, rock singer (I Fought the Law), suicide?, 1966, @23
Brain Teasers                         
Prime Ribs

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.