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Almanac: Flagstaff: Week: 31/ Day: 213
Today: H 82°…L 75°
Wind: ave: 3mph; Gusts: 9mph Ave. humidity: 60%
Quote of
the Day
Today’s
Historical Highlights
1st article exposing Wategate scandal
(Bernstein-Woodward)…1972
1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown,
Virginia…1619
1st commercial building heated by Sun
(Albuquerque NM)…1957
1st Jeep is produced…1941
1st voyage down Colorado River…1869
21st Olympic games close at Montreal
Canada…1976
Burial within SF City limits prohibited…1901
California introduces sales tax (for
education)…1953
Chubby Checker releases "The Twist"…1960
Greg Louganis, 1st diver to score 700 (752.67)
in 11 dives…1982
SF's 1st cable car begins service…1873
US Quarantine Station authorized for Angel
Island, SF Bay…1881
Whiskey Rebellion begins…1794
♫ Today’s
Birthdays: ♫
How many can you identify?…answers in Today’s Birthdays
My Free
Rambling Thoughts
Loooong day. I spent about 3 hours with my financial advisor trying to sort out my various accounts. All are safe, but moving them to another broker has turned out to be a lot harder than expected. It will all work out but as with everything in this ‘electronic’ age, it takes time. And I certainly have lots of that.It tried to rain much of the afternoon, but none fell on my side of town, although the smell of rain filled the air. Too bad, because just a little more rain would make it the wettest July on record. Still have till midnight to break the record, so we’ll see if that happens.Geez, I can’t wait for our discussion group to have a discussion about the changes in what information is available to the government from our computers, phones, and emails. Every day more information comes out about more data that is being collected. I think the most confusing part is that the Republican Congress has been talking about ‘smaller government’ since the Reagan years, yet all this data collection sure sounds like ‘bigger government’ to me. I don’t think I have anything to hide, but maybe I have visited a site that the government doesn’t like or talked to someone who the government doesn’t like. All these ‘leaks’ are disturbing. When the government wants something ‘leaked’ to bolster a political agenda, it just gets leaked. When the government doesn’t want something ‘leaked’ they go after the person with everything. I get that certain things shouldn’t be leaked; but am not real happy about how they determine what is ‘leaked’ and what happens to the ‘leaker’. The American people need so more clear delineation of ‘whistleblowers’ and who decides what it is OK to leak and what it is not OK to leak.
Game Center (answers
at the end of post)
Brain Teasers
In this teaser, I will give you a list of
clues and the answer, with all the letters, but the word year, missing. Your
job is to figure out what to add to the word year to get the answer to the
clue.
Example: Reading Glasses = *Y**EAR
Answer: EYEWEAR
Example: Reading Glasses = *Y**EAR
Answer: EYEWEAR
1. Word for word, without reading = *Y *EAR* 2. New York Birthplace of F.D.R. = *Y*E *AR* 3. Caveat Emptor = **YE* ***AR* 4. Person engaged in reverie = **Y**EA**R 5. Student at Harvard or Yale, e.g. = **Y *EA***R 6. Seafood restaurant = *Y**E* *AR 7. Old sage who doesn't shave = ***Y*EAR* 8. Extra-powerful, souped up = *Y*E***AR*** 9. Absolutely transparent = **Y**** **EAR 10. Place to drop off clothes = **Y **EA**R 11. Jellystone resident = Y*** *EAR 12. Headache remedy since 1899 = **YE* A***R**
Lifestyle
Substance:
Found on You Tube with some relevance to today
Hmmmm…Dismissals
- Occupational Puns
A politician could be devoted, denominated or disappointed. An electrician could be delighted or discharged or unearthed. A musician could be denoted, disbarred, disbanded, decomposed, or disconcerted.
Ok, then?
Harper’s Index
Factor by which white girls are more likely than black girls to binge drink: 2
Picture of the Day: All Time Great Movies
Can
you name the movie?
Unusual Fact of the Day
The vibrator was invented by a physician to treat women who suffered from "hysteria."Joke-of-the-day
A man calls home to his wife and says, "Honey I have been asked to go fishing at a big lake up in Canada with my boss and several of his friends. We'll be gone for a week. This is a good opportunity for me to get that promotion I've been wanting, so would you please pack me enough clothes for a week and set out my rod and tackle box. We're leaving from the office and I will swing by the house to pick my things up. Oh! And please pack my new blue silk pajamas."The wife thinks this sounds a little fishy but being a good wife she does exactly what her husband asked. The following weekend he comes home a little tired but otherwise looking good.The wife welcomes him home and asks if he caught many fish. He says, "Yes! Lots of Walleye, some Blue gill, and a few Pike. But why didn't you pack my new blue silk pajamas like I asked you to do?"The wife replies; "I did, they were in your tackle box."
Rules of Thumb:
Easy
shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
PLAYING GOLF
All putts break toward the water because the slope of greens are contoured for drainage.
Yeah, It Really Happened
LONDON - A hamburger worth $380,000 -- or about $75,000 per ounce -- made with meat grown in a laboratory will be cooked and eaten in London next month, scientists say. The 5-ounce burger will include a patty of made of synthetic meat, grown in a laboratory from the stem cells of a slaughtered cow, the scientist behind the faux burger said. The costly patty, set for a public "proof of principle" consumption, will be made of about 3,000 strips of artificial beef, each the size of a rice grain, grown from bovine stem cells cultured in the laboratory, the Belfast Telegraph reported Monday. It is the result of years of research by Mark Post, a medical physiologist at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Synthetic meat could help to save the world from the growing consumer demand for beef, lamb, pork and chicken, which could see the conversion of much of the world's remaining forests to barren, manicured pastures by the end of this century Post said. Stem cells taken from just one animal could, in theory, be used to make a million times more meat than could be butchered from a single beef carcass. Post's research into synthetic meat, which ran up the $380,000 tab, has been funded by a wealthy anonymous backer who may reveal his identity publicly by volunteering to be the first to taste the test-tube burger, a source told the Telegraph.
Somewhat Useless Information
- Urine was used to make gunpowder during the Civil War. The southern army even put ads in the newspapers asking Southern ladies to save their urine and that wagons with barrels would be sent "around to gather up the lotion."
- One kidney could handle the task of filtering the blood and making urine perfectly well. In fact, if one kidney is removed, the remaining kidney can increase in size by 50 percent within two months to take over the whole job.
Calendar Information
-8/4
Single Working Women's Week
AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week
Single Working Women's Week
AFRMA Fancy Rat & Mouse Week
Today Is
·
Girlfriend's
Day
·
Respect
for Parents Day
·
Rounds
Resounding Day
^^^
·
Bahamas, Jamaica,
Trinidad, Tobago: Emancipation Day (1834)
·
Benin: Independence
Day (1960 from France)
·
Jamaica: Independence
Day (1962 from UK)
·
US: Colorado:
Admission Day (1876—38th state)
·
Zambia: Youth
Day
Today’s Events through History
1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY)
completed…1903
1st US census (population of 3,939,214;
697,624 are slaves)…1790
Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black
congressman from East…1944
Agreement covering "amity and
commerce" is reached by representatives of the British in
New York, and
Western Abenaki, Housatonic, Mohegan and Scaghticoke Indians…1735
Aretha Franklins 1st recording session…1960
Earliest date for a film to be considered for
the Academy Awards…1927
Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew
Tsar Nicholas II (WW I)…1914
Hawaii National Park forms…1916
Joseph Priestley, English theologian and
chemist author discovers oxygen…1774
MTV premieres at 12:01 AM…1981
Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West
Point…1911
Pres Harry Truman establishes Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC)…1946
Several Shawnee Chiefs sign a peace treaty with British Pennsylvania
authorities
not to become allies with any other country…1739
U.S. Air Force Office of Special
Investigations is founded…1948
Today’s Birthdays
Tempestt Bledsoe, Chicago, actress (Vanessa
Huxtable-Cosby Show) is 40
Coolio [Artis Leon Ivey Jr.], Monessen
Pennsylvania, rapper (Gangsta Paradise) is 50
Bart Conner, parallel bars gymnist
(Olympic-gold-1984) is 56
Nancy Lopez, professional golfer is 57
Remembered
for being born today
Francis Scott Key, composer (Star-Spangled
Banner) [1779-1843]
Mother Jones, American labor organizer [1837-1930]
Yves Saint-Laurent, Oran Algeria, fashion
designer (Opium, Obsession) [1936-2008]
Herman Melville, author (Moby Dick, Billy
Budd), [1819-1891]
Today’s Historical Obits
Corazon Aquino, Former President of the
Philippines…cancer…2009…at 76
Paddy Chayefsky, screenwriter (Network,
Hospital)…cancer…1981…at 58
Francis Gary Powers, US U-2 pilot…fire
fighting plane crash…1977…at 47
John Ross (aka. Kooweskoowe), Principal Chief
of the Cherokee Nation…1866…at 76
Anne Stuart, queen of England (1702-14)… gout…1714…about 49
Answer: Movies:
In The Heat of the Night [1967]
Brain
Teasers
1. BY HEART 2. HYDE PARK 3. BUYER BEWARE 4. DAYDREAMER 5. IVY LEAGUER 6. OYSTER BAR 7. GREYBEARD or GRAYBEARD 8. HYPERCHARGED 9. CRYSTAL CLEAR 10. DRY CLEANER 11. YOGI BEAR 12. BAYER ASPIRIN
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.
§ And That Is All for
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