Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 29 Day 196 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 75° \54°
Wind 5mph \ Gusts 9mph Air Quality moderate
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)
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Weekly Observations
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Daily Observations
Be A Dork Day
Bon Festival (Japan’s Feast of Lanterns)
Celebration of The Horse Day
Gummi Worm Day
I Love Horses Day
International Sister Cities Day
National Give Something Away Day
National Pet Fire Safety Day
National Respect Canada Day
National Tapioca Pudding Day
Orange Chicken Day
Robin Hood Day-16
Saint Swithin's Day
World Youth Skills Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
Nice 15-minute
male rain this morning with lots of lightning and thunder. Hopefully there will
be more today. Unfortunately, this led to closing US89, N. of Flagstaff, due to
flooding.
Flagstaff
cops are in trouble over a sting operation to bust human and sex traffickers at
various local massage parlors. While they executed 8 search warrants and
arrested about 6 people, they appear to have broken the law to do it. Officers
of accused of paying massage employees to receive fondling. This happened about
a week ago, but just now is becoming public. Even our mayor posted that he knew
nothing about it until it was on a new channel in Phx. He says he has lots of
questions about the sting. A real mess for sure.
At 9.1%,
inflation is at the highest pace in 40 years. It is disturbing. I paid $4.69/gal
for gas at Sam’s today. What is our government doing? Obviously, not enough.
Favorite Memes
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Trivia
Obesity has
been linked to several types of cancer. Specifically, being overweight causes
inflammation that causes cell changes in the body. However, just by losing 5
percent of your body weight can significantly lower dangerous levels of
inflammation.
Stress can
make it difficult to lose weight. Stress can trigger cravings for carb-rich
snack foods which tend to calm stress hormones. Stress hormones can also
increase fat storage. In addition to physical exercise, relaxation techniques
can help control weight.
Sleep
deprivation can make it harder to lose weight. Inadequate sleep upsets a
person's hormone balance, which decreases leptin (a hormone that makes a person
feel full) and increases ghrelin (which triggers hunger). Scientists argue that
getting enough sleep is the cheapest and easiest obesity medicine there is.
Historical Events
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70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his armies
breached the walls of Jerusalem.
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1149 – The
reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre was consecrated in Jerusalem.
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1799 – The
Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain
Pierre-François Bouchard.
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1823 – A
fire destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome,
Italy.
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1834 – The
Spanish Inquisition was officially disbanded after nearly 356 years. Several
thousand people were actually executed over this time, averaging about a dozen
per year.
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1838 – Ralph
Waldo Emerson delivered the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School,
discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The
Christian Community was not pleased.
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1870 –
Georgia became the final former Confederate state to be readmitted to the
Union.
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1916 – In
Seattle, Washington, William Boeing, and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated
Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
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1955 –
Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons,
later co-signed by thirty-four others.
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1979 – US
President Jimmy Carter gives his Malaise Speech, where he characterizes the
greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the
meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.”
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2006 –
Twitter was launched. 140 characters could say a lot.
Birthdays Today
@77 – Alex Karras, football
player, wrestler, actor (d, 2012; dementia, cancer)
@74 – Jan-Michael
Vincent, American actor (d. 2019; cardiac arrest)
72
– Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist, publisher
71
– Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, 38th Governor of Minnesota
@69 – Dorothy
Fields, American songwriter [Sunnyside of the Street] (d.1974; heart
attack)
61
– Forest Whitaker, American actor
59
– Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
57
– Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter, drummer [Led Zepplin]
55
– Adam Savage, American special effects designer
54
– Eddie Griffin, American comedian, actor
50
– Scott Foley, American actor
49
– Brian Austin Green, American actor
46
– Diane Kruger, German actress
46
– Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian
