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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 191 / Week: 28
July Averages: 81° \ 51°Today: Average Sky Cover: 90%
H 72°… L 55°… Ave. humidity: 56%
Wind: ave: 7mph; Gusts: 17mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 94° (2003)
Average Low: 50° Record Low: 37° (1926)
Quote of the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
552 - Origin of
Armenian calendar
988 - The
city of Dublin is founded on the banks of the river Liffey. 1040 - Lady Godiva rides naked on horseback through Coventry to lower taxes
1746 - Bonnie Prince Charlie flees in disguise to Isle of Skye
1775 - Horatio Gates issues order excluding blacks from Continental Army
1892 - 1st concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio)
1923 - 2-pound hailstones kill 23 & many cattle (Rostov, Russia)
1925 - Jury selection took place in John T Scopes evolution trial
1929 - US issues newer, smaller-sized paper currency
1949 - 1st practical rectangular TV tube announced-Toledo, Ohio
1962 - Telstar, 1st geosynchronous communications satellite, launched
1985 - Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke
1991 - Boris Yeltsin sworn in as 1st elected president of Russian Federation
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
What a day yesterday. I started the blog, then the lightning came,
then the power went out. I’ve lived here long enough to know that when there is
a big lightning storm, all electronics go off. It was a big storm with about
1.5” of rain in about 30 minutes. Lots of areas near me had hail, but we were
thankfully spared. One low income area had 30 homes flooded about a mile from
me. Pictures of Route 66 show how all that rain came down the mountain, into
the main streets, and headed toward the RR tracks. Lots of clean up all around
Flag today.
I must be really dense sometimes. I just heard a reporter on CNN
point out that the Republican call for closing the border is out of step. We
ARE catching all these children as the cross the border. They wouldn’t be in
custody if we didn’t catch them. They are NOT making it across the border and
simply moving into the mainstream society. Duh.
from yesterday:
Good day all the way around. My foot pain is at 1% of what it has
been. Saw the doc and he says while he still isn’t sure if I had/have gout, he
is giving me a daily pill to hopefully ward off future attacks. I am so glad that I don’t have any Dr. appts or
blood draws or medical things for the next few weeks.Turns out several things
can give gout symptoms and I have a couple other things going on that could
cause the problem…none of them serious…concerning long term problems. Tart
Cherry Juice also seems to work.While waiting to pick up my script, I ran into a former student who I have kept contact with. She is doing OK, living in Tuba, and getting a home-site lease. She is not happy about the hoops that are required, but is jumping through them with a smile. That is good.
Our monsoon has been bringing afternoon and evening showers every day. So nice for most of us. The road to Sedona has been closed on and off daily due to flooding from the recent huge fire. Besides flooding the creek, it is dumping lots of debris into the creek, turning it a dark grey from the soot, burned trees and brush. Not a pleasant summer for the residents in the area.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
After
some relaxing, the Seekers of Knowledge received a gift from an anonymous
person. The gift was a magical scroll case that had 12 gemstones on it. The
Seekers were a bit shocked at the elegance of the scroll case as they knew it
was very expensive.
There
was a catch with it. They had no idea how to open it. As they looked over the
scroll case with amazement, suddenly a magic mouth appeared before them and
said, "The code to open this scroll case is hidden within the stones; you
must press each stone in the proper order to open it." The magic faded
out.
The
stones are in this order on the scroll case: Turquoise, Diamond, Opal,
Aquamarine, Topaz, Emerald, Moonstone, Garnet, Sapphire, Amethyst, Ruby,
Peridot.
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Portion
of British family doctors who are considering early retirement because of
increasing workloads: 3/5
Bonus:
Minimum
number of Alabama women charged under a ‘chemical endangerment’ law for taking
drugs while pregnant: 100
Unusual
Fact of the Day
Since octopi have no bones, their bodies are incredibly flexible.
They can squeeze through openings not much bigger than their eyeballs.
Trivia
about AZ…
The Apache trout is considered a threatened species under the
federal Endangered Species Act.
Arizona, among all the states, has the largest percentage of its
land set aside and designated as Indian lands.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Muslims do not believe in the concept of "vicarious
atonement" but rather believe in the law of personal responsibility. Islam
teaches that each person is responsible for his or her own actions. On the Day
of Judgment Muslims believe that every person will be resurrected and will have
to answer to God for their every word, thought, and deed. Consequently, a
practicing Muslim is always striving to be righteous.
Bonus:
If all Qur'ans in the world today were burned and destroyed, the
original Arabic would still remain. This is because millions of Muslims, called
Hafiz (or "preservers") have memorized the text letter for letter
from beginning to end, every word and syllable. Also, chapters from the Qur'an
are precisely recited from memory by every Muslim in each of the five daily
prayers.
Weather
Facts…
Snowiest city in the U.S.: Blue
canyon, California.
People
Facts…
There's an isolated tribe (Vadoma
Tribe) in Zimbabwe where the people have only two toes, dubbed the 'ostrich
people'.
Historical
Facts…
In 2007, the 5000-year-old skeletal remains of two lovers
embracing each other were found at Mantua, northern Italy.
Bonus:
Recently, archaeologists
excavating in the old medieval town of Odense in Denmark uncovered 700-year-old
barrels of poop - and, to their surprise, they still smelt.
Joke-of-the-day
How did the
violin greet the guitar?
Cello!!
Rules of
Thumb:
PLANNING A DINNER
Inviting more than
25 percent of the guests for a university dinner party from the economics
department ruins the conversation.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
BUELLTON, Calif. (UPI) - To help NOAA keep more precise tabs on
exactly how much carbon is being released into the atmosphere, NASA is
launching a satellite dedicated solely to measuring CO2.
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, or OCO-2 for short, will orbit
Earth constantly measuring and mapping carbon emissions. But not all the carbon
that rises into the atmosphere remains there. About half falls back to Earth
and is absorbed. OCO-2 will help scientists study this process and offer
climatologists a better understanding of the role oceans, soils and forests
play in the release and absorption of carbon dioxide. "Somewhere on earth, on land, one-quarter of all our carbon emissions released through fossil fuel emissions is disappearing," David Crisp, a researcher at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told The New York Times. "We can't identify the processes responsible for this. Wouldn't it be nice to know where?"
"We really don't have a lot of data right now to understand the uptake of carbon by these terrestrial ecosystems," Paul Wennberg, an OCO-2 scientist and a researcher at the California Institute of Technology, recently told the Los Angeles Times.
Explaining how the OCO-2 will perform its job, Wennberg added: "It measures the average amount of CO2 above a place on Earth, which is different from almost all other measurements of CO2, which are measurements in a small volume of air."
The Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2, a $465-million mission, is set to launch at 2:56 a.m. on Tuesday from Vandenberg Air Force Base, near Buellton, California. The satellite's name has the number two attached to the end of it because this is NASA's second attempt at launch a carbon-charting spacecraft. Five years ago, the original OCO malfunctioned on takeoff and crashed into the ocean, a devastating $273 million loss.
This time around, the OCO-2 will put into orbit via a Delta 2 rocket, which has an impressive track record of successful launches. This will be the second of five satellites launched by NASA's earth sciences division this year -- all five built to study Earth.
Somewhat
Useless Information
A
woman is like a tea bag – you can’t tell how strong she is until you put her in
hot water. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
As
usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot. ~John Lennon
The
age of a woman doesn’t mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest
fiddles. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
I
don’t know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot. ~Marilyn
Monroe
Men
are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are
maids, but the sky changes when they are wives. ~William Shakespeare
A
women who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. ~Coco Chanel
Clever
and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as
long as they govern men. ~George Bernard Shaw
Being
the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is
especially so. ~Robert Frost
Most
women set out to try to change a man, and when they have changed him they do
not like him. ~Marlene Dietrich
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
4-10Freedom Week
6-12
Be Nice To New Jersey Week; National Farriers Week
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend
Today
Is
Clerihew Day
Don't Step On A Bee Day
Hot Dog Night
Piña Colada Day
Teddy Bears' Picnic Day
/\Don't Step On A Bee Day
Hot Dog Night
Piña Colada Day
Teddy Bears' Picnic Day
Admission Day (Wyoming-1890-44th)
Independence Day (Bahamas-1973-from UK)
Today’s Events through History
1866 - Indelible
pencil patented by Edson P Clark, Northampton, Mass
1956 - 650,000 US steel workers go on strike
1972 - Democratic convention opens in Miami Beach Florida (McGovern)
1980 - Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen
2012 - The American Episcopal Church becomes 1st to approve a rite for blessing gay marriages
Birthday’s
Today
Jake
LaMotta, Bronx, middleweight boxing champ (Raging Bull) is 93
Ron Glass, actor
(Harris-Barney Miller, Frank's Place) is 69Arlo Guthrie, Brooklyn, singer (Alice's Restaurant) is 66
Sofia Vergara, Colombian actress is 42
Jessica Simpson, singer\popstar ("I Wanna Love You Forever,") is 34
Remembered
for being born today
1452-1488 - King
James III of Scotland (d. 1488)
1723-1780 - William
Blackstone, London jurist (Blackstone's Commentaries) 1856-1943 - Nikola Tesla, Croatian physicist, inventor, Tesla Coil
1871-1922 - Marcel Proust, France, novelist (Remembrance of Things Past)
1897-1931 - Jack "Legs" Diamond", American bootlegger (d. 1931)
1911-1990 - Terry-Thomas, England, actor (It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World)
1917-2007 - Don Herbert, scientist/TV host (Watch Mr Wizard)
1920-2003 - David Brinkley, NBC news anchor (Huntley-Brinkley)
1921-2009 - Eunice Shriver, founder (Special Olympics)
1923-2003 - Jean Kerr, novelist (Please Don't Eat the Daisies)
1926-1993 - Fred Gwynne, NYC, actor (Car 54 Where Are You, Munsters)
1931-1968 - Nick Adams, actor (Johnny Yuma-Rebel)
1941-2012 - Jake Eberts, Montreal, film producer (Chariots of Fire)
1943-1993 - Arthur Ashe, tennis pro (1968 US Open, 1975 Wimbledon)
Historical
Obits Today
Johann G
Galle, German discoverer of Neptune by telescope, 1910. @98
Mel Blanc, cartoon
voice (Warner Bros cartoons), 1989, @81 Bridget Bishop, 1st person to be hanged in Salem witch trials, 1692, @60
Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton, pioneer jazz pianist, asthma, 1941, @56
El Cid, of Castile. famine, 1099, @45ish
Brain
Teasers
After some thought, they knew how to open the scroll case.
They pressed the stones in this order: Garnet, Amethyst,
Aquamarine, Diamond, Emerald, Moonstone, Ruby, Peridot, Sapphire, Opal, Topaz,
Turquoise.
They are all birthstones, and in the order of the months: January,
February, March and so on.
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 Now §
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