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Flagstaff Almanac: Day: 189 / Week: 28
July Averages: 81° \ 51°Today: Average Sky Cover: 90%
H 70°… L 57°… Ave. humidity: 64%
Wind: ave: 3mph; Gusts: 18mph
Average High: 82° Record High: 92° (2002)
Average Low: 49° Record Low: 32° (1955)
Quote of the Day
951 - Paris
is founded
1693 - NYC
authorizes 1st police uniforms in American colonies 1796 - US State Dept issues 1st American passport
1822 - Chippewas turn over huge tract of land in Ontario to UK
1835 - Liberty Bell cracks (again)
1870 - Congress authorizes registration of trademarks
1907 - Florenz Ziegfeld staged 1st `Follies' on NY Theater roof
1923 - Harding becomes 1st sitting president to visit Alaska
1953 - US stops aid to Persia
1963 - US bans all monetary transactions with Cuba
1981 - Senate confirms Sandra Day O'Conner to Supreme Court (99-0)
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Finally, relief. Whatever is wrong with my foot is subsiding. One
pain pill today and no need for any more. A full night of sleep last night
without a pill too. The pain is not completely gone, but I was able to walk
upstairs without holding the rail and taking my normal one step with each foot.
So glad it is better. Don’t know what is helping, but I’ve been drinking tart
cherry juice three times a day since Friday and people say that helps. I go in
tomorrow to see my PCP to see what he has to say. Hopefully the blood I had
drawn this morning will give us some answers.
A little confused about the new TSA stuff…turning on your cell
phone and computer at the security point. That will sure slow down the speed at
which one goes through. We have had to take off our shoes for years, and still
there are people who get all the way to the scanner with them on. That slows
things down. Even more confusing is that some machines require shoes off,
others don’t. Some phones and tablets and computers take over a minute to turn
on. Will the lines just stop as we wait? I must say, as inconvenient as this
is, I do feel sorry for the TSA workers who will have to deal with all this
hassle.
It is also a very strange world. A guy gets bit by a shark at a
beach, and survives. Cool. They close the beach. About an hour later, they
reopen the beach and swimmers return to the water. Really?!? YOLO (you only
live once).
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain Teasers
I
can help you have some fun,Sometimes I get stronger from the sun.
If
you never give me a break,
You
will find I may never again wake.
I
am optimistic on one side,
I
can be short, fat, tall, or wide.
Rectangle,
cylinder are just a couple of my shapes,
And
maybe I can even help you make some videotapes.
Sometimes
you have to wait long for me to get ready,
Just
hold on for a few hours and be steady.
I
can help you get around to the market or mall,
and
even help you make a call.
What
am I?
Lifestyle Substance:
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
Harper’s
Index
Percentage
of e-cigarette nicotine-poisoning cases in OK this year that have involved
children under 6: 87
Unusual
Fact of the Day
"If you jump out of an airplane without a parachute, does
that make you brave, or stupid?" asked Jacques Plante. In 1959, he became
the first NHL goalie to regularly wear a protective mask.
Trivia
about AZ…
The colors blue and gold are the official state colors.
Located in Fountain Hills is a fountain believed to be the tallest
in the world.
Interesting
facts about Islam…
Actual seventh century Qur'ans, complete and intact, are on
display in museums in Turkey and many other places around the world.
Weather
Facts…
The winter of 1932 in the US was
so cold that Niagara Falls froze completely solid!
People
Facts…
Jack Daniel’s last words were
“One last drink, please”.
Historical
Facts…
In 585 BC, a solar eclipse
occurred in the middle of a battle between the Lydians and the Medes. They
promptly ceased fighting and signed a peace treaty.
Joke-of-the-day
Did you hear
about the golfer trying to buy a new golf club? He looked at club after club
after club. His friend asked him "Why are you taking so long?" He
replied "I am looking for a hole in one!"
Rules of
Thumb:
FEEDING LARGE GROUPS
Three tofu buckets
of chopped vegetables will feed 100 people.
Yeah, It
Really Happened
WASHINGTON (UPI) - More and more people are aware of their daily
carbon footprint. Humans have calculated the carbon footprint of train travel,
transatlantic jets, TVs, washing machines, presidential campaigns and more. But
what is the carbon footprint of a newly planted tree?
Planting a tree is largely regarded as an environmentally friendly
act. But when it comes to absorbing and emitting CO2, some landscaping trees
are friendlier than others. Now, thanks to researchers at the American Society
for Horticultural Science, we know the carbon footprint of the flowering Forest
Pansy, or redbud tree. As part of a new study on the positive economic and environmental benefits of landscaped trees, researchers Charles R. Hall and Dewayne Ingram demonstrated how the carbon and economic footprints of a variety of plants can be calculated -- so everyone from farmers to backyard gardeners to urban planners can make more intelligent purchasing and planting decisions.
Expressed in units of tons (or kilograms) of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), a tree's carbon footprint is the measure of all greenhouse gases emitted during its life cycle -- that means its planting and care at its original nursery or farm, its transportation from birthplace to new home, and its maturing days lived out in yard, park, garden or forest.
"Knowing the carbon footprint of production and distribution components of field-grown trees will help nursery managers understand the environmental costs associated with their respective systems and evaluate potential system modifications to reduce greenhouse gas emissions," explained Ingram and Hall.
The researchers also monetized the different costs involved in raising and planting trees, including labor, equipment and transportation. The economic cost of the redbud's lifecycle was calculated at roughly $98, and its carbon footprint was measured at negative 63 kg CO2e.
"Our findings validate those of previous studies that found that input costs of production processes (machinery, water, fertilizers, pesticides, and energy) are a significant portion of the nursery variable operation costs," the authors wrote. "Thus, a more efficient use of these environmentally sensitive inputs cannot only reduce production costs for the nursery, but reduce their environmental risks or impacts as well."
Somewhat
Useless Information
It
takes food seven seconds to go from the mouth to the stomach via the esophagus.
**A human’s small intestine is 6 meters long.
**
The human body is 75% water.
**
Your
blood takes a very long trip through your body. If you could stretch out all of
a human’s blood vessels, they would be about 60,000 miles long. That’s enough
to go around the world twice.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
1-7
National Unassisted Homebirth Week4-10
Freedom Week
6-12
Be Nice To New Jersey Week; National Farriers Week
7-14
Creative Maladjustment Week; Nude Recreation Weekend
Today
Is
Be a Kid Again Day
Children’s Day Math 2.0 Day
SCUD Day (Savor the Comic, Unplug the Drama):
Today’s Events through History
1099 - First
Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession
around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on
1800 - Dr
Benjamin Waterhouse gives 1st cowpox vaccination to his son to prevent smallpox
1892 - American Psychological Association organized, Worcester, Mass
2013 - 42 people have been killed and hundreds injured after the Egyptian army raids a protest in Cairo
Birthday’s
Today
Steve
Lawrence, Bkln, singer/actor (Go Away Little Girl) is 79
Jeffrey
Tambor, actor (Jeffrey-Ropers, Larry Sanders) is 70Kim Darby, actress (True Grit) is 67
Wolfgang Puck, Austrian-born celebrity chef is 65
Anjelica Huston, actress (Prizzi's Honor, Alien) is 63
Kevin Bacon, actor (Footloose) is 56
Toby Keith, Country singer is 53
Michael Weatherly, actor (NCIS) is 46
Jaden Smith, actor (The Karate Kid) is 16
Remembered
for being born today
1838-1917 - Ferdinand
von Zeppelin, inventor (rigid dirigibles)
1839-1937 - John D
Rockefeller, US capitalist/founder (Standard Oil) 1907-1995 - George W Romney, (Gov-Mich)/US Secretary of HUD
1908-1979 - Nelson A Rockefeller, (Gov-R-NY) 41st VP
1918-2000 - Craig Stevens, actor (Craig-Dallas, Peter Gunn)
1931-2014 - Jerry Vale, [Genaro Louis Vitaliano], singer (Arriverderci Roma)
1931-2002 - Roone Arledge, head of sports broadcasting (ABC)
Historical
Obits Today
Ernest
Borgnine, actor, 2012, @ 95
Betty
Ford, First Lady of the United States, 2011, @93 June Allyson, American actress, 2006, @88
Howard Duff, actor (Heist, Knots Landing), heart attack, 1992, @72
Florenz Ziegfeld, US theatre producer (Ziegfeld Follies), pleurisy, 1932, @65
Dick Sargent, actor (Darren-Bewitched), cancer, 1994, @64
James Franciscus, actor (Mr Novak), emphysema, 1991, @57
Percy Bysshe Shelley, poet (Prometheus unbound), drowns, 1822, @29
Brain
Teasers
A battery.
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 §
