Saturday

I’m not a big football fan, but do enjoy a good game every now and then. The AZ Cardinals were in Flagstaff for their annual July pre-season training. They certainly bring a lot of visitors to town and this helps the town a lot financially. Last night the Cards played Green Bay. Die hard Cardinal fans say that they have lost their first 3 preseason games simply because they are trying out most of their roster and not keeping the top players in the game. Top players will be used when the ‘real season’ begins. Last night the Cards trailed for most of the game. With only 38 seconds left, they scored. A kick could have led to OT, a run could have won the game. The Cards seem to be a ‘not guts, no glory’ team, so they went for the 2 points. They didn’t make it. Then they let the Packers score a TD on the kickoff. The Cards came close to one more score, but just didn’t make it. They lost 44/37. The amazing thing is that they scored 17 points in the first three quarters then scored 20 points in the final quarter. I’ll see how they play their first few ‘real’ games and hope they can hold up their NFC Championship play from last year.

We started the day with a 10% chance of showers. By 2pm it was raining and has remained cloudy since. It climbed to 88° here but the rain and the following breezes have made it quite bearable.

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Random Facts…

Average compensation of the ten highest-salaried presidents of U.S. public universities: $533,000
.....Number of them who earn more than the school’s football coach: 2

Margin by which Americans would rather watch football with Obama than with McCain: 50–47

Percentage of N.F.L. fourth downs on which teams are better off “going for it,” according to a Berkeley study: 40
…..Percentage of fourth downs on which N.F.L. teams do go for it: 13


Crazy Stuff in the News…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - The Wallendas Still Flying High. A seventh-generation high rope walker crossed the U.S. state line between the Carolinas twice while 125 feet above the ground, observers say. Nik Wallenda, 30, did it without a safety net or harness.
Wallenda, the seventh generation of the venerable Flying Wallendas crossed from one state to the other in about 10 minutes on a rope fixed to attractions at the border-straddling Carowinds theme park Sunday afternoon, the Charlotte (N.C.) Observer reported. Wallenda, who holds world records for the longest distance and greatest height ever traveled by bicycle on a high rope, said the heat, which reached the upper 80s Sunday, was not as hard on him as it was on the assembled crowd on the ground. “There’s a lot more breeze up that high, so it wasn’t so hot up there,” he said. “Of course, the humidity actually affects how I walk the wire and how my shoes grip the wire.”
The performer said he plans future walks over the Grand Canyon, New York’s Central Park, Niagara Falls and a NASCAR race.



Month long events in August

Edinburgh Festival is an internationally famous arts festival that takes place during August National Immunization Awareness Month… National Psoriasis Awareness Month… Women's Small Business Month... National Back to School month…American Adventures Month…Golf Month…National Inventor’s Month…National Win with Civility Month…What will be your legacy Month

Week of Aug 30…

Minority Enterprise Development Week

30 Aug…

242 days so far this year…123 days remain in 2009
National Toasted Marshmallow Day
National Holistic Pet Treatment Day
International Day of the Disappeared
* Peru: St. Rose of Lima Day—1st Saint in Americas, born in Lima01586

BIRTHS ON THIS DAY…
…ARTS…
1797….. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley London England, author (Frankenstein)

1896….. Raymond Massey Toronto Canada, actor
1898….. Shirley Booth (Thelma Booth Ford) Academy Award-winning actress

1907….. Fred MacMurray Kankakee Ill, actor
1919….. Kitty Wells Nashville Tn, country singer
1927….. Geoffrey Beene fashion designer
1935….. John Phillips singer (Mama & Papas)
1947….. Peggy Lipton Lawrence NY, actress (Julie-Mod Squad)
1972….. Cameron Diaz model; actress

…ATHLETICS…
1918….. Ted Williams Baseball's last .400 hitter
1943….. Jean Claude Killy France, skier

…POLITICS…
1837….. Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur wife of president Chester A Arthur
1893….. Huey P Long Winn Parish La, (gov/sen-D-La)

…SCIENCE…
1871….. Ernest Lord Rutherford England, physicist; discovered atomic nucleus
1931….. John L Swigert Jr Denver Colorado, astronaut (Apollo 13)

Events on this day…

30 B.C. ….. Under the threat of being taken prisoner by Roman emperor Octavian, Cleopatra, the queen of Egypt, poisons herself.

1682 ….. William Penn sailed from England. He later established the colony of Pennsylvania 1923: Seven pirates who attacked a British Rum Schooner killing the captain and cook are being sought by British and US authorities

1850….. Honolulu, Hawaii becomes a city

1961….. 1st Negro judge of a US District Court confirmed-JB Parsons
1967….. US Senate confirm Thurgood Marshall as 1st black justice
1968….. 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
1979….. Pres Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains Ga
1990….. Ken Griffey & Ken Griffey Jr become 1st father & son to play on the same team (Seattle Mariners), both single in the 1st inning

Holy Mackerel…
1951….. A Native American soldier killed in the war in Korea was refused a burial in a cemetery in Winnebago, Nebraska on the grounds of race. The president of the United States President Truman heard about this travesty of justice and offered the widow a plot in Arlington National Cemetery, stating no person should be refused a burial based on race, creed or color.

Brainfood.com
Can you guess what each of these riddles is describing?

1. My life can be measured in hours;
I serve by being devoured.
Thin, I am quick; fat, I am slow.
Wind is my foe.
What am I?
2. Lighter than what I'm made of,
More of me is hidden than is seen.
What am I?
3. To unravel me
You need a key.
No key that was made by locksmith's hand,
But a key that only I will understand.
What am I?
4. I give you a group of three. One is sitting down and will never get up. The second eats as much as is given to him, yet is always hungry. The third goes away and never returns. What are they?
5. Whoever makes it, tells it not. Whoever takes it, knows it not. Whoever knows it, wants it not. What is it?

*BONUS: There is not wind enough to twirl
That one red leaf, nearest of its clan,
Which dances as often as dance it can.
-- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Answers:
1. A candle.
2. An iceberg.
3. A cipher.
4. A stove, fire, and smoke.
5. Counterfeit money.
*BONUS: The sun
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