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Flagstaff
Almanac: Day: 221
/ Week: 32
August
Averages: 78° \ 50°
Today:
Average Sky Cover: 20%
H 79°… L 52°… Ave. humidity: 41%
Wind: ave:
6mph;
Gusts: 18mph
Average High: 81° Record High: 89° (1980)
Average Low: 52°
Record Low: 44° (1999)
Quote of
the Day
Historical
Highlights for Today
1173 - Construction of Tower of Pisa begins, and it
takes 2 centuries to complete.
1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican
1815 - Napoleon Bonaparte sets sail for exile
on St Helena
1854 - Henry David Thoreau publishes
"Walden"
1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin
Olympics
1944 - Smokey Bear debuts as spokeman for fire
prevention
1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man"
on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP
Ford becomes 38th US president
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games closes in
Barcelona, Spain
♫
Birthdays Today: ♫
How many can you identify? Answers in Birthday’s Today
below
My
Rambling Thoughts
Nice day here in Flag. Dr. finally called back and gave me an
increased dose of meds + pain pills. I will get through this eventually.
I had lunch with one of my old bosses today. He is working on his
doctorate on how to get Navajo kids to learn to read, write and speak Navajo. Fascinating
research. One of the dissertations he was talking about was a Navajo lady as
she interviewed people for her research. Turns out that close relatives and
friends would be interviewed easily, but distant relatives or strangers
expected compensation, it’s a Navajo thing…if you are going to share your
knowledge you have to be compensated because knowledge is not free. It should
be noted that money is not the preferred compensation, but jewelry, turquoise,
or sheep is expected. She went back to her committee and the committee had a
hard time accepting that she would be ‘paying’ for information. She convinced
them, taught them some cultural stuff, and used her own way of compensating the
interviewees. Fascinating.
Game Center (answers at the
end of post)
Brain
Teasers
There
are five people. One of them shot and killed one of the other five. Which man
is the murderer?
1. Dan ran in the NY City marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
2. Mike considered being a farmer before he moved to the city.
3. Jeff is a topnotch computer consultant and wants to install Ben's new computer next week.
4. The murderer had his leg amputated last month.
5. Ben met Jack for the first time six months ago.
6. Jack has been in seclusion since the crime.
7. Dan used to drink heavily.
8. Ben and Jeff built their last computers together.
9. The murderer is Jack's brother. They grew up together in Seattle.
1. Dan ran in the NY City marathon yesterday with one of the innocent men.
2. Mike considered being a farmer before he moved to the city.
3. Jeff is a topnotch computer consultant and wants to install Ben's new computer next week.
4. The murderer had his leg amputated last month.
5. Ben met Jack for the first time six months ago.
6. Jack has been in seclusion since the crime.
7. Dan used to drink heavily.
8. Ben and Jeff built their last computers together.
9. The murderer is Jack's brother. They grew up together in Seattle.
Found on
You Tube with some relevance to today
OK Then…
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Paraphernalia
4 the Brain :
Common
Sayings from the Bible…
Rise and shine
"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Isaiah 60:1
"Arise, shine, for your light has come, and the glory of the LORD rises upon you.
Isaiah 60:1
Computer
Facts…
It’s not possible to create a folder named “con” on a Windows
computer.
Earth
Facts…
Earth has several layers with unique chemical and seismic
properties: Crust (0-40 km), upper mantle (40-400 km), transition region
(400-650 km), lower mantle (650-2700 km), D layer (2700-2890 km), outer core
(2890-5150 km), and the inner core (5150-6378 km) from the surface.
Flagstaff,
AZ History…
25 YEARS
AGO
The NAU faculty has been increased by 45 professors plus over 100
other personnel. Students enrolled now number 15,059. The need for low-cost
rentals overflows the supply. The need for low-cost housing is urgent.
Harper’s
Index
Percentage of same sex mariages performed in Iowa that have been
between people from out of state: 70
Language
Facts…
Didaskalaeinophobia is the fear of going to school.
Rules of
Thumb:
FLYING FALCONS
When approaching
your bird to take her hawking, she's ready to fly if she flies toward you. If
she flies away from you, don't take her hunting that day.
Unusual
Fact of the Day…
Jim
Henson said he made the first Kermit out of his mom's old coat. He used
Ping-Pong balls for eyes.
World
Heritage Sites…
Between 1696 and 1760, six ensembles of reducciones (settlements
of Christianized Indians) inspired by the ‘ideal cities’ of the 16th-century
philosophers were founded by the Jesuits in a style that married Catholic
architecture with local traditions. The six that remain – San Francisco Javier,
Concepción, Santa Ana, San Miguel, San Rafael and San José – make up a living
heritage on the former territory of the Chiquitos.
Joke-of-the-day
Three old couples
were having tea one fine day. There were all chatting and whatnot when one of
the men, trying to get a chuckle, said to his wife, "Pass the honey,
honey!” Getting the chuckle he expected, he carried on. A moment later, the
second man said, "Pass the sugar, sugar!" This got a bit of a bigger
laugh, so the third man, although not quite as clever or quick-witted as the
other two, decided to join in the fun. He waited for the perfect opportunity,
cleared his throat and then confidently said, "Pass the tea, bag!"
Yeah, It
Really Happened
We've all been there. You and your buddy are looking for kicks on
a week night so you go to the Internet for some "professional" help.
Because nothing breaks up the boredom of a Tuesday night than $75 hookers.
But then everything goes to hell when you all get up to your room and you find out that one of the "girls" has a penis.
The whole sordid affair came to light when the driver of a red Mustang in Midlothian, IL flagged a police car down. When police approached the car, they observed two nude women - one with an eye swollen shut - and a naked transgender woman. The three told police that a man inside a room at a local fantasy motel had struck one woman after it was discovered the third woman was transgender.
Police instructed the three to get dressed, and they then returned to the hotel room to discuss the incident with the two men involved. One of the men, who described himself as a club promoter, said he and his friend contacted the three others on the Internet and agreed to pay them each $75 to all have sex together. The five people involved met up at a club in Markham before relocating to the Midlothian club.
One man said he was lying in bed with one woman when the other two people and his friend decided to hop in the Jacuzzi. That’s when his friend realized the third woman was transgender.
The man in the hot tub said he tried to leave, but the woman began to hit him because she was angry she wasn’t going to get paid, according to the police report. That man told police he fled to his car and locked his doors.
The women denied they were prostitutes and told police they all met at the club and agreed to go to the hotel to have sex together without payment. The other woman told police the second man attacked her associate without being provoked.
Police released all five without charges due to their conflicting stories.
But then everything goes to hell when you all get up to your room and you find out that one of the "girls" has a penis.
The whole sordid affair came to light when the driver of a red Mustang in Midlothian, IL flagged a police car down. When police approached the car, they observed two nude women - one with an eye swollen shut - and a naked transgender woman. The three told police that a man inside a room at a local fantasy motel had struck one woman after it was discovered the third woman was transgender.
Police instructed the three to get dressed, and they then returned to the hotel room to discuss the incident with the two men involved. One of the men, who described himself as a club promoter, said he and his friend contacted the three others on the Internet and agreed to pay them each $75 to all have sex together. The five people involved met up at a club in Markham before relocating to the Midlothian club.
One man said he was lying in bed with one woman when the other two people and his friend decided to hop in the Jacuzzi. That’s when his friend realized the third woman was transgender.
The man in the hot tub said he tried to leave, but the woman began to hit him because she was angry she wasn’t going to get paid, according to the police report. That man told police he fled to his car and locked his doors.
The women denied they were prostitutes and told police they all met at the club and agreed to go to the hotel to have sex together without payment. The other woman told police the second man attacked her associate without being provoked.
Police released all five without charges due to their conflicting stories.
Somewhat
Useless Information
Debate.org,
the free online community, where people debate online and read the opinions of
others, has hosted many controversial debate topics, among them if Australia
really exists!
In
this debate 26% of people said “YES”, which means that Australia really exists
and 74% voted for “NO”.
People
based their thoughts over Australia’s existence on the argument “seeing is
believing”. Consequently, people who haven’t been or haven’t seen Australia
claim that it does not exist!
“I’ve
simply never seen any evidence proving the existence of Australia”, “Yes
Kangaroos do exist. I have seen, touched, and fed them at the petting zoo”, and
“I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who has seen Australia. Map makers could be
in some conspiracy to create a mystical land “down under” to fool us all!”, are
some of the claims.
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The
students at the first Montessori school were the underprivileged preschoolers
of Rome's alums.
Schoolhouses were traditionally painted red because it was the cheapest color available.
The first chalkboard was used in a school in 1714.
Dartmouth was the last Ivy League college to go coed. It held out until 1972.
Of all the students in the world, Americans spend more school time in physical education: 12 percent. France and New Zealand are next, with 11 percent.
In 2004, for the first time in its history, Harvard admitted more women than men to its freshmen class.
Schoolhouses were traditionally painted red because it was the cheapest color available.
The first chalkboard was used in a school in 1714.
Dartmouth was the last Ivy League college to go coed. It held out until 1972.
Of all the students in the world, Americans spend more school time in physical education: 12 percent. France and New Zealand are next, with 11 percent.
In 2004, for the first time in its history, Harvard admitted more women than men to its freshmen class.
Check
Your Calendar
Observances
This Week:
3-9
Assistance Dog Week
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Single Working Women's Week
Stop on Red Week
Exercise With Your Child Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
Old Fiddler's Week
Single Working Women's Week
Stop on Red Week
8-11
9-16
Today
Is
Book
Lover's Day
Kool-Aid Day: 8-10
National Bowling Day
International Day of The World's Indigenous People
Nagasaki Day
National Garage Sale Day
National Bowling Day
International Day of The World's Indigenous People
Nagasaki Day
National Garage Sale Day
Perseid Meteor Showers
Veep Day
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Moment of
Silence (Japan)
National Day (Singapore-1965-from Malaysia)
National Women's Day (South Africa-1956-a protest of ‘pass’ laws)
National Day (Singapore-1965-from Malaysia)
National Women's Day (South Africa-1956-a protest of ‘pass’ laws)
Today’s
Events through History
1803 - Robert Fulton tests his steam
paddle-boat on the River Seine, France
1859 - Elevator patented
2012 - Usain Bolt becomes 1st person to win 100m
& 200m sprint in back to back Olympics
Birthday’s
Today
Bob Cousy, Manhattan, NBA guard (Celtics, 1957 MVP) is 86
Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam) is
76
Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty) is 70
Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl) is 57
Hoda Kotb, television news anchor is 50
Gillian Anderson, actress (X-Files) is 46
Eric Bana, Australian actor (Hulk) is 46
Remembered
for being born today
William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, 1st to use ether (1819-1868)
Elizabeth Lane, 1st female British supreme court justice (1905-1988)
Robert Aldrich, US director/producer (Dirty Dozen) (1918-1983)
Whitney Houston, singer (Bodyguard), (1963-2012)
Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show)
(1943-2013)
Historical
Obits Today
James van Allen, physicist (Van Allen Belt), 2006, @91
Ted Stevens, Alaska Senator, plane crash, 2010, @86
Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), 1962, @85
Edward Frankland, British chemist who co-discovered helium, 1899,
@74
John Gates ("Bet-a-million" Gates), American inventor,
barbed wire, 1911@56
Jerry Garcia, rock vocalist (Grateful Dead), heart attack, 1995, @53
Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor, cardiac arrest, 2008, @50
Brain
Teasers
1. Jack is not the murderer, because he is the brother of the
murderer. 2. Dan can't be the murderer since he ran a marathon, and the
murderer recently had his leg amputated, and wouldn't be running a marathon of
any magnitude that quickly. 3. Ben is not the murderer if he just met Jack,
since Jack and the murderer grew up together. 4. This leaves Jeff and Mike.
Since Jeff is still alive (he wants to install a new computer next week,
present tense) he must be the murderer. Mike also didn't grow up with Jack. It
has been determined that Jack, Dan and Jeff are all alive. Ben must also be
alive since Jeff plans to install Ben's computer next week. This means that
Jeff killed Mike.
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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