6-29-13

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Almanac: Flagstaff:  Week: 26/ Day: 180   Today: H 93°…L 54°

Wind: ave:   8mph; Gusts:  22mph  Ave. humidity:  23%

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Ave low	Ave high	Record low	Record high
46°	82°	30° (1913)	93° (1990)

Quote of the Day

Today’s Historical Highlights

2 earthquakes including 7.4 hits southern CA…1992

Atomic Energy Comm voted against reinstating Dr J Robert Oppenheimer…1954

Beatles' 1st song "From Me to You" hits UK charts…1963

Brazo River in Texas floods 12 miles wide causing $10 mil damage…1899

English ex Chancellor Thomas Cromwell sentenced as heretic…1540

Federal interstate highway system act signed…1956

Shakespeare's Globe Theater burns down…1613

South Africa begins implementing apartheid; no mixed marriages…1949

US passes Alien Registration Act requiring Aliens to register…1940

US planes bombed Hanoi & Haiphong for 1st time…1966

US reopens Guantanamo Naval Base to process refugees…1994

♫  Today’s Birthdays: ♫   

How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays

My Free Rambling Thoughts   

I have heard of many kinds of storms…but never heard of a ‘heat storm’ but that is what so much of the SW is being told it is having. While I am uncomfortable with the 93° official temperature, and the 95° on my deck thermometer, it is so much worse in other places around here. We do have some clouds, but no rain, and Williams, about 30 miles away, had rain today…so maybe relief is ahead. The Williams rain dropped their temperature from 92 to 84 in about 30 minutes.

 

Our HOA is one the most paranoid group of people in the nation. They keep issuing new parking permits for our parking lot, for fear that former tenants will return to our parking lot and use up spaces. Now they have started putting up new signs around the parking lot and in front of units that remind everyone that any vehicle parked without a proper permit will be towed and it will cost up to $150 to get the vehicle back, and it can be picked up after hours for another $80. In my 5 years here there has never been a time that there were no parking spaces available night or day close to my unit. Like most HOA’s they have signs that don’t allow commercial vehicles, large stand alone campers, trailers, noncurrent license plates, etc. One neighbor who has been here longer than I have had his car marked because he didn’t have the right parking sticker, and giving him 24 hours to get it moved or towed, or with the new sticker. Seems that all the new signs are an overreaction to a problem that doesn’t even exist.

Game  Center (answers at the end of post)

Brain Teasers

What same three letters fit into the following five combinations to form 5 words?

_ _ _ E F F A _ _ _ C D E _ _ _ S H Y _ _ _ D L U _ _ _ C A N T

Lifestyle  Substance:     

Found on You Tube with some relevance to today

•  Katharine Hepburn Interview

•  Colin Hay - I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You

• Inside Guantanamo – Cuba

Hmmmm…Oxymorons

Oddly appropriate Old news Only choice

Ok, then?

Harper’s Index    

Percentage increase since 1982 in the portion of US college students with a a ‘problematic’ level of narcissism: 60

Picture of the Day: Pow Wow Season

Unusual Fact of the Day

The phrase "slipping a Mickey" likely originated with Mickey Finn, a Chicago saloon owner known for drugging and robbing customers.

Joke-of-the-day

A dog thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me ... They must be Gods!

A cat thinks: Hey, these people I live with feed me, love me, provide me with a nice warm, dry house, pet me, and take good care of me ... I must be a God!  

Rules of Thumb:   

Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess

SPONSORING LARGE SPORTS EVENTS

There aren't any precise studies showing what sponsorship is worth, but the rule of thumb is that putting $1,000 behind a sports event will generate the same exposure as $10,000 in advertising.    

Yeah, It Really Happened

"That guy has got some big balls."

But having outsized gonads is not always a good thing, especially if they tip the scales at 140 pounds. You might think something like that would make an excellent leg rest, or at least get you a spot in some freaky pornos, but for 49-year-old Wesley Warren, Jr. it was a nightmare.

Warren couldn't have sex and suffered from crippling pain from carrying around the testicles - which weighed more than a baby hippo. He had to wear a hoodie top as trousers to support the load.

When he could take no more he submitted to a 13-hour procedure to remove his swollen testicles. Unfortunately, while relieving him of his burden it also left him with a tiny penis. Now he is afraid he will never be able to have a relationship with a woman.

Wesley said, "I know the majority of people are probably expecting me to express extreme happiness and glee that my life has been transformed since the sac has been removed - but it's not as simple as that."  

Somewhat Useless Information   

• An estimated 75% of the liquor that was smuggled into the U.S. during prohibition arrived along a route from the mouth of the Lake Erin and St. Claire Rivers. This was eventually nicknamed the "Windsor-Detroit Funnel."

• When Prohibition was repealed, beer was the first legal alcoholic drink made available on April 7, 1933. Other alcoholic beverages were made legal December 5, 1933.

• In 1904, North Dakota was a prohibition state but Montana wasn't. In Sidney, MO, a bar was built on the state line so one could buy a drink in Montana and drink it in North Dakota.

• Pilsner Urquell was the number one import beer in the U.S. before Prohibition.

• Al Capone, also known as Scarface, was the most famous figure during the Prohibition Era for his control of large portions of the Chicago underworld. Capone was making $10 million per year in revenue through the sales of bootleg alcohol, racketeering, gambling, and prostitution...tax-free.

• Templeton Rye Whiskey was said to be Al Capone's whiskey of choice.

Calendar Information        

Happening This Week:

23-30

Carpenter Ant Awareness Week

Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week
Lightning Safety Awareness Week

National Mosquito Control Awareness Week

27-7/4
*National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness
27-30

Watermelon Seed Spitting Week
Water Ski Days

Today Is                                                                      

·        Camera Day

·        Tour De France Begins

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·        Seychelles [islands off E coat of Africa]: Independence Day (1976 from UK)

Today’s Events through History  

6.0 earthquake hits southern CA…1991

British passes Townshend Revenue Act levying taxes on America…1767

First (known) recording of classical music made, Handel's Israel in Egypt on 

     wax cylinder…1888

Milt coup in Ethiopia…1974

Same force of 50 South Carolinians and 1,000 CREEKs which attacked the Mission 

    of San Pedro y San Pable in Patale on June 23rd, attack the Spanish San Damian 

    de Cupahica Mission, near modern day Tallahassee, Florida, today, mission destroyed,

    many of the local Indians will be taken as slaves…1704

Solar eclipse is recorded by a monastic chronicler in Ireland…512

Supreme Court rules out death penalty for rapists of adults…1977

U.S. Supreme Court rules that President George W. Bush's plan to try Guantanamo 

     Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law…2006

Virginia state constitution adopted & Patrick Henry made governor…1776

Today’s Birthdays                                                           

In their 60’s

Gary Busey, actor (Buddy Holly Story, Star in Born) is 69

Colin Hay, Kilwinning, Scotland, Scottish-Australian guitarist and singer (Men At Work) is 60

Richard Lewis, comedian (Marty Gold-Anything But Love) is 66

Remembered for being born today

Little Eva (Eva Boyd), Belhaven, North Carolina, American pop singer 

    (Locomotion) [1943-2003]

Stokeley Carmichael, [Kwame Toure], US, Black Power-activist [1941-1998]

Nelson Eddy, baritone (Duets with Jeanette MacDonald) [1901-1967]

George Washington Goethals, engineer (built Panama Canal) [1858-1928]

William James Mayo, surgeon/co-founder Mayo clinic [1861-1939]

Slim Pickens, actor (Dr Strangelove, Blazing Saddles) [1919-1983]

James Van Der Zee, African American photographer [1886-1983]

Today’s Historical Obits                                                           

Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, US actor (Keystone comedies)…heart attack…1933…at 46

Elizabeth Barrett-Browning, writer…1861…at 55

Henry Clay, the great compromiser…TB…1852…at 75

Rosemary Clooney, singer and actress…cancer…2002…at 74

Bob Crane, actor (Donna Reed Show, Hogan-Hogan's Heroes)…murdered…1978…at 49

Katharine Hepburn, actress…2003…at 96

William Hickey, actor (Prizzi's Honor)…emphysema…1997…at 69

Jayne Mansfield, actress (Female Jungle)…car crash…1967…at 34

Lana Turner, actress (Madame X)…cancer…1995…at 75

Answer: Brain Teasers

BRI.

BRIEF
FABRIC
DEBRIS
HYBRID
LUBRICANT

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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