Jul 24

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 31 Day 205 \ Ave. Sky Cover 35% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 91° \59° 
Wind 7mph \ Gusts 14mph  Air Quality Fair
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 9mi \ Nearest Lightning 3mi
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

18-25 Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS) Education & Awareness Week

21-24 Comic Con International

22-24  and  29-31  Garlic Days Link

22-24  National Parenting Gifted Children Week Link

23-31  National Moth Week

23-27  National Scrabble Week Link

24-30   National Tequila Week Link RAGBRAI—Iowa Bike Race Women in Baseball Week

Daily Observations

Amelia Earhart Day
Auntie's Day
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints Pioneer Day 
Cousins Day
International Self Care Day 
Mormon Pioneer Day
National Drive-Thru Day
National Frozen Margarita Day 
National Tell an Old Joke Day
National Tequila Day
National Thermal Engineer Day
National Parents Day:
National Thermal Engineers Day   
Tell An Old Joke Day
World Day for Grandparents and The Elderly

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Heat wave continues at 7000’.

When my living room reached 95° with the fan on high, I broke down and set up the portable swamp cooler…much better.

Local Forest Service has doused 10+ fires in the 72 hours before noon Friday. All were thankfully smaller than 1 acre.

Trump and Pence held separate rallies for the two conservative Republican candidates for Governor here in AZ yesterday. Both had decent turnouts.

Thank you to Turkey for brokering a deal between Russia and Ukraine to allow tons of grain to be released to prevent a hunger mess around the world. It may not hold as Russia is bombing near Odessa, the open port for the grain.

Uvalde school board has cancelled today’s meeting regarding its chief of police. The chief’s team said they needed more time to prepare.

Here is a new one to watch out for: Ticketmaster is doing ‘dynamic pricing’ for its most popular concerts. A customer signs in and sees that lower-level seats are $75 for the concert. When they checkout they learn that the price has risen if there is demand for those seats. The check out price for one guy was $3000 for two seats that were $100 each when he signed in. Crazy!

Favorite Memes

	Niagara Falls

Trivia

Squaring a circle was finally proved to be an impossible problem in 1882 when German mathematician Ferdinand von Lindemann proved that pi is a transcendental number. That is; it is not the root of any polynomial with rational coefficients. Pi is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter, and without it the problem could not be done.   

Historical Events

·        1701 – Detroit was founded by Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac.
·        1823 – Slavery was abolished in Chile.
·        1847 – Brigham Young brought 148 Mormon pioneers into Salt Lake Valley, establishing Salt Lake City.
·        1866 – Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the American Civil War.
·        1901 – Writer O. Henry (William Sydney Porter) was released from prison in Columbus, Ohio after serving three years for embezzlement from a bank.
·        1935 – The Dust Bowl heatwave reached its peak, with temperatures of 109°F (43°C) in Chicago, Illinois, and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
·        1950 – Cape Canaveral Air Force Station opened with the launch of Bumper rocket 8. The first 7 Bumpers were launched from White Sands, New Mexico.
·        1969 – After the successful Moon landing, Apollo 11 splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean
·        1974 – The United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon did not have the authority to withhold subpoenaed White House tapes and they ordered him to surrender the tapes to the Watergate special prosecutor, Archibald Cox.
·           2002 – Democrat James Traficant was expelled from the United States House of Representatives on a vote of 420 to 1 (CA Representative Gary Condit didn’t vote against him).

Birthdays Today

86 – Ruth Buzzi, American comedic actress
@77 – Bella Abzug, American lawyer and politician (d. 1998; after heart surgery)
76 – Gallagher [Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr.], American comedian
71 – Lynda Carter, American actress, 1972 Miss World USA
69 – Claire McCaskill, American politician
@68 – Alexandre Dumas, French novelist, playwright (d. 1870; heart attack)
58 – Karl Malone, American basketball player, coach
58 – Barry Bonds, American baseball player
54 – Kristin Chenoweth, American actress and singer
52 – Jennifer Lopez, singer
@41 – Amelia Earhart, American pilot, author (disappeared in 1937)
40 – Elisabeth Moss, American actress
40 – Anna Paquin, Canadian-New Zealand actress
24 – Bindi Irwin, TV host