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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 184 / Week: 27
June Averages: 78° \ 42°
Today: Average
Sky Cover: 98%
H 84°… L 55°… Ave. humidity: 32%
Wind:
ave: 2mph; Gusts:
25mph
Average High: 82° Record
High: 93° (2007)
Average Low: 47°
Record Low: 34° (1997)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1754 - George
Washington surrenders to French, Ft Necessity (7 Years' War)
1767 - Pitcairn
Island is discovered by Midshipman Robert Pitcairn
1767 - Norway's oldest newspaper still in print,
Adresseavisen, is founded
1806 - Michael
Keens exhibits 1st cultivated strawberry
1839 - 1st
state normal school in US opens, Lexington, Mass, with 3 students
1844 - The
last pair of Great Auks is killed.
1861 - Pony Express arrives in SF with overland
letters from NY
1863 - Battle of Gettysburg Pa ends, major victory
for North
1884 - Dow
Jones published its 1st stock avg
1929 - Dunlop
Latex Development Laboratories made foam rubber
1930 - Veterans
Administration created
1950 - 1st
time US & North Korean forces clash in Korean War
1954 - Food rationing ends in Britain
1966 - Race riots in Omaha Nebraska
1986 - President Reagan presided over relighting
Statue of Liberty
1996 - Stone
of Scone returned to Scotland.
2013 - Egypt's
president, Mohammed Morsi, is deposed by the military
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Mid week, hump day, whatever, not a great day. My foot is still
really sore, really sore. I got some pain meds yesterday and they are helping,
but I still am really slow. I took one pill yesterday afternoon and then woke
up about 4a with pain. Won’t do that again. One pill before bedtime until this goes
away. One during the day so I can walk. This getting old-er thing is getting
boring.
I have to laugh, or chuckle over the hypocrisy of some in this
country. Yesterday Hobby Lobby was touting how they don’t have to provide their
female employees with birth control under their insurance policy because it is
against their religion. Then today it comes out that the 401K’s HL offer their
employees have funds in the largest drug companies that produce the birth
control pills that they object to. Guess the saying…’it’s about the money’…is
really true. They don’t want to spend the money to provide their employees with
birth control access, but the companies that make the pills are good money
makers so it is OK to have them in the portfolio. And yes, there are 401K’s nicknamed
‘Catholic 401K’s’ that guarantee that funds will not be put into companies that
do not meet religious standards. Too bad
the Supreme Court majority can’t see beyond the money either.
The monsoon has arrived. Cloudy all day, lots of wind this
morning. About a half inch of rain on the mountain. Just a little here at my
place, but it’s the forest that needs it, and now they are getting it.
Our little mountain town is having a political battle with the ‘big
boys’. The big boys want to build off-campus housing for 650 students. They
would close a very old trailer park where most of the trailers can’t be moved.
The area is in the heart of ‘old Flagstaff’ where the town first began. Lots of
opposition—traffic, historical problems of large off-campus housing with police
calls for alcohol and noise, and not fitting into the neighborhood. There have
been meetings since Feb and most are against it. The Zoning Commission said NO.
Then just as the city council was set to meet two things happened. First, one
of the developers filed a law suit against our Vice Mayor for defamation
claiming she re-distributed a false memo, hoping she would recuse herself. The
City Attorney told her she did not have to recuse. Then two groups of ‘unknowns’
did pre-recorded robocalls to some 14,000 residents saying to come to the
meeting to support the project. I got one of the calls from ‘Concerned parents
of NAU students’. After the first call I got 7 more calls from the same number
that were just clicks and hang ups. My call’s number was from Tees Nos Pos, on
the Rez. I called it back after the third call and the phone just said, ‘we do
not accept calls at this number’. Ahh, small town politics.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
What
phrase is this?
itsits
diediediedie
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Number
of minutes Mexican men and women work each day, respectfully: 580, 607…almost
10 hours/day.
Unusual
Fact of the Day
While you can buy mistletoe-scented air fresheners, candles and
soap, real mistletoe has no discernible smell.
Trivia
about AZ…
The state's most popular natural wonders include the Grand Canyon,
Havasu Canyon, Grand Canyon Caves, Lake Powell/Rainbow Bridge, Petrified
Forest/Painted Desert, Monument Valley, Sunset Crater, Meteor Crater, Sedona
Oak Creek Canyon, Salt River Canyon, Superstition Mountains, Picacho Peak State
Park, Saguaro National Park, Chiricahua National Monument, and the Colorado
River.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Muslims believe in and acknowledge all the prophets of old, from
Adam to Jesus. Muslims believe that they brought the message of peace and
submission (islam) to different peoples at different times. Muslims also
believe that these prophets were "muslims" because they submitted
their wills to God.
Weather
Facts…
There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning
140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has
been going since at least the 16th century.
People
Facts…
The first man to swim the length of Great Britain grew a beard to
stop jellyfish stinging his face.
Historical
Facts…
The
ancient Egyptians thought the function of the brain was to produce snot.
Joke-of-the-day
You know you're
in Central or Southern Arizona when ...
*You no longer
associate bridges (or rivers) with water.
*You can say 110
degrees without fainting.
*You eat hot
chilies to cool your mouth off.
*You can make
instant sun tea.
*You learn that a
seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron.
*The temperature
drops below 95, you feel a bit chilly.
*You discover
that in July, it takes only 2 fingers to drive your car.
*You discover
that you can get a sunburn through your car window.
*You notice the
best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.
*Hot water now
comes out of both taps.
*It's noon in
July, kids are on summer vacation, and not one person is out on the streets.
Rules of
Thumb:
MAKING ELECTRICITY FROM COAL
It takes about a
pound of coal to produce a kilowatt hour of electricity. Your electric bill
will list the number of kilowatt hours you use every month. You can use this
figure to find how much coal was burned to meet your demand for electricity.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
PROVO, Utah, July 2 (UPI) --Next time it might be wise to go with
a gift certificate or a nice card.
A Utah woman was arrested by Provo police after she allegedly
attempted to purchase methamphetamine from an off-duty police officer.
During the attempt, Heather Rodriguez allegedly pulled a glass
pipe that was coated with meth residue from her brassiere.
When officers who were on the clock arrived, the 46-year-old
allegedly told police that she was trying to buy meth for her sister for her
birthday because she requested the illegal substance as a gift.
The suspect also said that she was holding the meth pipe for a
friend and it didn't belong to her, the Daily Herald reported.
Rodriguez was booked on suspicion of possession of drug
paraphernalia in a drug-free zone and attempted possession of meth for
distribution.
Somewhat
Useless Information
The
fastest bird is the peregrine falcon. It can fly at a speed of 168-217 miles
per hour.
Hans
Langseth had the longest beard at a record length of 17 1/2 feet long! When he
died, his beard was given to the Smithsonian Institute.
The
deadliest disease was the pneumonic form of the Black Death of 1347-1351. It
had death rate of 100%.
The
largest egg laid by a living bird is that of the North African Ostrich. It is 6
to 8 inches in length and 4 to 6 inches in diameter. The smallest is that of
the hummingbird. It is less than 0.39 inches in diameter.
The
hottest continent on earth is Africa, where a record high of 136.4 degrees F
was once recorded.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
1-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week
3-6
Beans and Bacon Days; International Gay Square Dancing Week
Today
Is
Air Conditioning Appreciate Day continues through August
Compliment Your Mirror Day
International Plastic Bag Free Day
Stay Out Of The Sun Day
Rosewell UFO Days: 3-6
Superman Day
/\
Admission Day (Idaho-1890-43rd state)
Independence Day (Belarus-1944-from Nazis)
Independence Day (Belarus-1944-from Nazis)
Today’s
Events through History
1761- Delaware, Miami, Ojibwa,Ottawa, Potawatomi, Shawnee and
Wyandot form Northwest
Confederacy
1841 - John
Couch Adams decides to determine position of an unknown planet by
irregularities it causes in the motion of Uranus
1898 - American
troops captured deserted Wake Island
1913 - Common
tern banded in Maine; found dead in 1919 in Africa (1st bird known to have
crossed the Atlantic)
1947 - 252,288
people (record) pass through Grand Central Station, NYC
1947 - Soviet
Union doesn't partake in Marshall Plan
1978 - Supreme Court rules 5-4, FCC had a right to
reprimand NY radio station WBAI for broadcasting George Carlin's "Filthy
Words"
Birthday’s
Today
Pete Fountain, jazz clarinetist
(Lawrence Welk 1957-59) is 84
Geraldo Rivera, [Gerry Rivers], news
personality (20/20, Geraldo) is 71
Dave Barry, American humorist
and author is 67
Montel Williams, TV talk show host
(Montel) is 58
Faye Resnick, author (Nicole
Brown Simpson-Private Diary) is 57
Thomas Gibson, actor (Dr Daniel
Nyland-Chicago Hope) is 52
Tom Cruise, actor (Risky
Business, Jerry MaGuire, Rainman) is 52
Julian Assange, Queensland,
Australia, Wikileaks founder is 43
Remembered
for being born today
1878-1942 - George M Cohan, actor/singer (Give My
Regards to Bdwy)
1883-1924
- Franz
Kafka, Czech, author (Metamorphosis, Trial, Amerika)
1906-1972
- George
Sanders, Russia, actor (All About Eve)
Historical
Obits Today
Andy
Griffith, actor, 2012, @86
Rudy
Vallee, singer (Vagabond Dreams), 1986, @84
Larry
Harmon, entertainer (Bozo) and TV producer, 2008, @83
Boots
Randolph, American saxophonist, 2007, @80
Jim
Backus, actor (Magoo, Gilligan's Island), pneumonia, 1989, @76
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, French writer/composer (Pygmalion), 1778, @66
Ross
Martin, actor (Mr Lucky, Wild Wild West), heart attack, 1981, @61
Don
Drysdale, Baseball player, heart attack, 1993, @56
Jim
Morrison, rock singer (Doors), OD, 1971, @27
Trigger, horse
(Roy Rogers), 1965, @25
Brain
Teasers
It's to die for!
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 §
