Jul 15

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 29 Day 196 \ Ave. Sky Cover 50% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 75° \54° 
Wind 5mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality moderate
Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 9mi \ Nearest Lightning 2mi
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

1-24 Tour de France  Link

7-17  Tug-of-War Days

10-16   Family Golf Week: Link National Vodka Week Link    National Theraputic Recreation Week Link   National Cancer Survivor Sibling Week  Link   Operation Safe Driver Week  Link

10-17  Sports Cliché Week: Link

13-19   Hemp History Week Link

13-16   National Ventriloquism Week  Link

15-21 Rabbit Week

Daily Observations

Be A Dork Day
Bon Festival (Japan’s Feast of Lanterns)
Celebration of The Horse Day
Gummi Worm Day 
I Love Horses Day
International Sister Cities Day 
National Give Something Away Day
National Pet Fire Safety Day 
National Respect Canada Day
National Tapioca Pudding Day
Orange Chicken Day
Robin Hood Day-16  
Saint Swithin's Day
World Youth Skills Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Nice 15-minute male rain this morning with lots of lightning and thunder. Hopefully there will be more today. Unfortunately, this led to closing US89, N. of Flagstaff, due to flooding.

Flagstaff cops are in trouble over a sting operation to bust human and sex traffickers at various local massage parlors. While they executed 8 search warrants and arrested about 6 people, they appear to have broken the law to do it. Officers of accused of paying massage employees to receive fondling. This happened about a week ago, but just now is becoming public. Even our mayor posted that he knew nothing about it until it was on a new channel in Phx. He says he has lots of questions about the sting. A real mess for sure.

At 9.1%, inflation is at the highest pace in 40 years. It is disturbing. I paid $4.69/gal for gas at Sam’s today. What is our government doing? Obviously, not enough.

Favorite Memes

Trivia

Obesity has been linked to several types of cancer. Specifically, being overweight causes inflammation that causes cell changes in the body. However, just by losing 5 percent of your body weight can significantly lower dangerous levels of inflammation.

Stress can make it difficult to lose weight. Stress can trigger cravings for carb-rich snack foods which tend to calm stress hormones. Stress hormones can also increase fat storage. In addition to physical exercise, relaxation techniques can help control weight.

Sleep deprivation can make it harder to lose weight. Inadequate sleep upsets a person's hormone balance, which decreases leptin (a hormone that makes a person feel full) and increases ghrelin (which triggers hunger). Scientists argue that getting enough sleep is the cheapest and easiest obesity medicine there is.   

Historical Events

·            70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his armies breached the walls of Jerusalem.
·           1149 – The reconstructed Church of the Holy Sepulchre was consecrated in Jerusalem.
·           1799 – The Rosetta Stone was found in the Egyptian village of Rosetta by French Captain Pierre-François Bouchard.
·           1823 – A fire destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome, Italy.
·           1834 – The Spanish Inquisition was officially disbanded after nearly 356 years. Several thousand people were actually executed over this time, averaging about a dozen per year.
·           1838 – Ralph Waldo Emerson delivered the Divinity School Address at Harvard Divinity School, discounting Biblical miracles and declaring Jesus a great man, but not God. The Christian Community was not pleased.
·           1870 – Georgia became the final former Confederate state to be readmitted to the Union.
·           1916 – In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing, and George Conrad Westervelt incorporated Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
·           1955 – Eighteen Nobel laureates signed the Mainau Declaration against nuclear weapons, later co-signed by thirty-four others.
·           1979 – US President Jimmy Carter gives his Malaise Speech, where he characterizes the greatest threat to the country as “this crisis in the growing doubt about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of a unity of purpose for our nation.”
·           2006 – Twitter was launched. 140 characters could say a lot.

Birthdays Today

@77 – Alex Karras, football player, wrestler, actor (d, 2012; dementia, cancer)
@74 – Jan-Michael Vincent, American actor (d. 2019; cardiac arrest)
72 – Arianna Huffington, Greek-American journalist, publisher
71 – Jesse Ventura, American wrestler, actor, 38th Governor of Minnesota
@69 – Dorothy Fields, American songwriter [Sunnyside of the Street] (d.1974; heart attack)
61 – Forest Whitaker, American actor
59 – Brigitte Nielsen, Danish-Italian actress
57 – Jason Bonham, English singer-songwriter, drummer [Led Zepplin]
55 – Adam Savage, American special effects designer
54 – Eddie Griffin, American comedian, actor
50 – Scott Foley, American actor
49 – Brian Austin Green, American actor
46 – Diane Kruger, German actress
46 – Gabriel Iglesias, Mexican-American comedian