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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 189 / Week: 28 
July Averages: 81° \ 51°
Today: Average Sky Cover: 90%
    H 70° L 57° Ave. humidity: 64%
    Wind: ave:   3mph; Gusts:  18mph  
    Average High: 82° Record High:  92° (2002)
    Average Low: 49° Record Low:  32° (1955)
   
Quote of the Day
Historical Highlights for Today

  951 - Paris is founded
1693 - NYC authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies
1796 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to UK
1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1870 - Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1923 - Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska 
1953 - US stops aid to Persia
1963 - US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1981 - Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)

  Birthdays Today:   

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

Finally, relief. Whatever is wrong with my foot is subsiding. One pain pill today and no need for any more. A full night of sleep last night without a pill too. The pain is not completely gone, but I was able to walk upstairs without holding the rail and taking my normal one step with each foot. So glad it is better. Don’t know what is helping, but I’ve been drinking tart cherry juice three times a day since Friday and people say that helps. I go in tomorrow to see my PCP to see what he has to say. Hopefully the blood I had drawn this morning will give us some answers.

A little confused about the new TSA stuff…turning on your cell phone and computer at the security point. That will sure slow down the speed at which one goes through. We have had to take off our shoes for years, and still there are people who get all the way to the scanner with them on. That slows things down. Even more confusing is that some machines require shoes off, others don’t. Some phones and tablets and computers take over a minute to turn on. Will the lines just stop as we wait? I must say, as inconvenient as this is, I do feel sorry for the TSA workers who will have to deal with all this hassle.

It is also a very strange world. A guy gets bit by a shark at a beach, and survives. Cool. They close the beach. About an hour later, they reopen the beach and swimmers return to the water. Really?!? YOLO (you only live once).

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers
I can help you have some fun,
Sometimes I get stronger from the sun.

If you never give me a break,
You will find I may never again wake.

I am optimistic on one side,
I can be short, fat, tall, or wide.

Rectangle, cylinder are just a couple of my shapes,
And maybe I can even help you make some videotapes.

Sometimes you have to wait long for me to get ready,
Just hold on for a few hours and be steady.

I can help you get around to the market or mall,
and even help you make a call.

What am I?

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today







OK Then…
Harper’s Index 

Percentage of e-cigarette nicotine-poisoning cases in OK this year that have involved children under 6: 87

Unusual Fact of the Day

"If you jump out of an airplane without a parachute, does that make you brave, or stupid?" asked Jacques Plante. In 1959, he became the first NHL goalie to regularly wear a protective mask.

Trivia about AZ…

The colors blue and gold are the official state colors.

Located in Fountain Hills is a fountain believed to be the tallest in the world.

Interesting facts about Islam…

Actual seventh century Qur'ans, complete and intact, are on display in museums in Turkey and many other places around the world.

Weather Facts…

The winter of 1932 in the US was so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid!

People Facts…

Jack Daniel’s last words were “One last drink, please”.

Historical Facts…

In 585 BC, a solar eclipse occurred in the middle of a battle between the Lydians and the Medes. They promptly ceased fighting and signed a peace treaty.

Joke-of-the-day

Did you hear about the golfer trying to buy a new golf club? He looked at club after club after club. His friend asked him "Why are you taking so long?" He replied "I am looking for a hole in one!" 

Rules of Thumb:   

FEEDING LARGE GROUPS
Three tofu buckets of chopped vegetables will feed 100 people.

Yeah, It Really Happened

WASHINGTON (UPI) - More and more people are aware of their daily carbon footprint. Humans have calculated the carbon footprint of train travel, transatlantic jets, TVs, washing machines, presidential campaigns and more. But what is the carbon footprint of a newly planted tree?
Planting a tree is largely regarded as an environmentally friendly act. But when it comes to absorbing and emitting CO2, some landscaping trees are friendlier than others. Now, thanks to researchers at the American Society for Horticultural Science, we know the carbon footprint of the flowering Forest Pansy, or redbud tree.
As part of a new study on the positive economic and environmental benefits of landscaped trees, researchers Charles R. Hall and Dewayne Ingram demonstrated how the carbon and economic footprints of a variety of plants can be calculated -- so everyone from farmers to backyard gardeners to urban planners can make more intelligent purchasing and planting decisions.
Expressed in units of tons (or kilograms) of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), a tree's carbon footprint is the measure of all greenhouse gases emitted during its life cycle -- that means its planting and care at its original nursery or farm, its transportation from birthplace to new home, and its maturing days lived out in yard, park, garden or forest.
"Knowing the carbon footprint of production and distribution components of field-grown trees will help nursery managers understand the environmental costs associated with their respective systems and evaluate potential system modifications to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," explained Ingram and Hall.
The researchers also monetized the different costs involved in raising and planting trees, including labor, equipment and transportation. The economic cost of the redbud's lifecycle was calculated at roughly $98, and its carbon footprint was measured at negative 63 kg CO2e.
"Our findings validate those of previous studies that found that input costs of production processes (machinery, water, fertilizers, pesticides, and energy) are a significant portion of the nursery variable operation costs," the authors wrote. "Thus, a more efficient use of these environmentally sensitive inputs cannot only reduce production costs for the nursery, but reduce their environmental risks or impacts as well."

Somewhat Useless Information   

It takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
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A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.
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The human body is 75% water.
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Your blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of a human’s blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That’s enough to go around the world twice.

Check Your Calendar

Observances This Week:

1-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week

4-10
Freedom Week

6-12
Be Nice To New Jersey Week; National Farriers Week

7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend

Today Is  

Be a Kid Again Day
Children’s Day
Math 2.0 Day
SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama):
                                                       
Today’s Events through History  

1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on
1800 - Dr Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1892 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
2013 - 42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a protest in Cairo

Birthday’s Today                                                        

Steve Lawrence, Bkln, singer/actor (Go Away Little Girl) is 79
Jeffrey Tambor, actor (Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders) is 70
Kim Darby, actress (True Grit) is 67
Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef is 65
Anjelica Huston, actress (Prizzi's Honor, Alien) is 63
Kevin Bacon, actor (Footloose) is 56
Toby Keith, Country singer is 53
Michael Weatherly, actor (NCIS) is 46
Jaden Smith, actor (The Karate Kid) is 16

Remembered for being born today

1838-1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, inventor (rigid dirigibles)
1839-1937 - John D Rockefeller, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil)
1907-1995 - George W Romney, (Gov-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD  
1908-1979 - Nelson A Rockefeller, (Gov-R-NY) 41st VP
1918-2000 - Craig Stevens, actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
1931-2014 - Jerry Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], singer (Arriverderci Roma)
1931-2002 - Roone Arledge, head of sports broadcasting (ABC)

Historical Obits Today                                                           

Ernest Borgnine, actor, 2012, @ 95
Betty Ford, First Lady of the United States, 2011, @93
June Allyson, American actress, 2006, @88
Howard Duff, actor (Heist, Knots Landing), heart attack, 1992, @72
Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), pleurisy, 1932, @65
Dick Sargent, actor (Darren-Bewitched), cancer, 1994, @64
James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), emphysema, 1991, @57
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns, 1822, @29

Brain Teasers                         

 A battery.

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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