August 10


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 32 / Day: 223
Today: High   83°…Low 54°
Records: High   89°(1980)…Low 35°(2009)
 Averages: High   79°…Low 51°
Wind:   4mph;  Gusts: 25mph
Afternoon Rain  Today’s humidity: 33 %

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
2006 - Scotland Yard disrupts major terrorist plot to destroy aircraft travelling from 
            the United Kingdom to the United States. All toiletries are banned from 
            commercial airplanes.
1997 - Vijay Singh of Fiji wins Buick Open at the Warwick Hills Golf
1990 - US's Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus
1988 - UN estimates Asia's population hits 3 billion
1966 - Daylight meteor seen from Utah to Canada. Only known case of a meteor
             entering Earth's atmosphere & leaving it again
1948 - ABC enters network TV at 7 PM (WJZ, NY) Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV
            debut
1944 - US recaptures Guam from Japanese
1921 - FDR stricken with polio at summer home on Canadian Is of Campobello
1835 - Mob of whites & oxen pulled black school to a swamp out of Canaan NH
1831 - Former slave Nat Turner leads uprising against slavery
1827 - Race riots in Cincinnati (1,000 blacks leave for Canada)

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
A couple of the puzzles are disappearing after today, but new ones await. The 6 x 6 box has been using too many odd words for me.  I look forward to doing some new stuff for a little while.

Our retirement had our weekly lunch. Very good salad bar at Sizzler. Cheryl had just picked up new glasses and they are nice, as well as helping her see better. Mary had posted some great grandkid pics this morning and she told us of Kindergarten antics. Her grandson told the teacher he had a good time on the first day and hoped she would come back tomorrow to his school. Cheryl got her new big screen TV up and running and says she has really been enjoying the Olympics…on the big screen and in HD. I couldn’t agree more.

I got up this morning with no pain, so whatever was causing it has left the body, or is busy moving to another spot. Last night was a night of very strange dreams that woke me up at least four times. None of them made any sense when I awoke, and when I got up this morning I couldn’t remember any of them, just that I had awakened four times. Guess I should have written them down when I woke up in the middle of the night.

It was another HOT day here in Flag, but our afternoon rain cooled things off nicely. So glad I’m not in the Phoenix area with extreme heat warnings for everyone. My Olympic coverage was interrupted three times today with Emergency notifications of Heavy Thundershowers/ Flash Flooding in our county. None were near Flagstaff, and we just got our rather common afternoon shower. Since the storms were far off, my phone never gave me an alert. One of the storms was near Seligman one near Page and the other by the Grand Canyon. We live in a huge county and are not that populated, so TV always picks up stuff that doesn’t really hit Flagstaff. The smart phone notifications are much less widespread.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
What is the answer?
NOTE: LAST DAY FOR THIS PUZZLE:
Here are the names of four colors, with the vowels removed. What are the four colors?NDG  CRS  MRN  MGNT
6X6 Word Boxes
NOTE: LAST DAY FOR THIS PUZZLE…The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 6 letters.
1.      cup
2.      bird
3.      unglazed porcelain
4.      Japanese plum
5.      liquid resultant of the removal of captured ions
6.      move unsteadily
Hint: upper left to lower right letters are: G-R-S-U-T-R
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Outside a secondhand shop:
WE EXCHANGE ANYTHING - BICYCLES, WASHING MACHINES, ETC.
WHY NOT BRING YOUR WIFE ALONG AND GET A WONDERFUL BARGAIN?
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Paresthesia
London 2012—

Female Artist Folk Songs: Stevie Nicks
New music genre tomorrow too.

Harper’s Index         
  • Percentage increase in the rate f alcohol abuse for every percent by which US unemployment increases: 17
  • Percentage increase, since 2006, in violent sex crimes perpetrated by members of the US Army: 97
Found on You Tube 
Olympic 3000m Finals 1984       
Joke-of-the-day
This guy needs a job and decides to apply at the zoo. As it happened, their star attraction, a gorilla, had passed away the night before and they had carefully preserved his hide. They tell this guy that they'll pay him well if he would dress up in the gorilla’s skin and pretend to be the gorilla so people will keep coming to the zoo. Well, the guy has his doubts, but Hey! He needs the money, so he puts on the skin and goes out into the cage.
The people all cheer to see him. He plays up to the audience and they just eat it up. This isn't so bad, he thinks, and he starts really putting on a show, jumping around, beating his chest and roaring, swinging around. During one acrobatic attempt, though, he loses his balance and crashes through some safety netting, landing square in the middle of the lion cage!
As he lies there stunned, the lion roars. He's terrified and starts screaming, "Help, Help, Help!"
The lion races over to him, places his paws on his chest and hisses, "Shut up or we'll BOTH lose our jobs!"
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
GETTING BACK IN SHAPE Recovering an unused physical skill takes one month for each year of layoff.
Yeah, It Really Happened
PORTLAND, Ore. - An Oregon woman who has been seen swimming in public pools while dressed as a mermaid said she is living out a childhood fantasy. Pauline Long, 56, said she wanted to be a mermaid as a child and she decided to spend this summer swimming in Portland pools while wearing her homemade fins, which were inspired by a woman she met a few years ago, KGW, Portland, reported Monday. Long, who said she is part of a 23-strong group known as The Northwest Mermaids, said she knows she isn't a real mermaid, but her 6-year-old self would be proud.
"I obviously know the difference but it's just fun. It's freedom," she said. "If you don't do it as a child, why not do it as an adult? Who says that you can't?"               
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • Even those who were reading e-books before on different platforms are jumping on the Kindle/Nook bandwagon. Yes, more e-book readers are now opting to use dedicated e-readers to read their e-books. Fewer people are reading e-books on a computer.
  • According to e-book readers, having access to free chapters or samples had the biggest impact on getting them to buy an e-book. In fact, this seems to be more of a decision-maker than online reviews.

Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
5-11
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
6-12
Exercise with Your Child Week
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
National Hobo Week
Psychic Week
Single Working Women's Week
Sturgis Rally
World Breastfeeding Week
10-18
Elvis Week

Today Is                                                                      
Lazy Day
National Duran Duran Appreciation Day
Smithsonian Day (1846 Museum approved by Senate)
S'mores Day

Ecuador: Independence Day (1809 from Spain; lasted 2 months)  
US: Missouri: Admission Day (1821-24th state)

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2003 - The highest temperature ever recorded in the UK - 38.5°C (101.3°F) in Kent
2003 - Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko becomes the first person to marry in space
1900’s
1994 - Last British troops leave Hong Kong (been there since Sept 1841)
1984 - Mary Decker trips on heel of Zola Budd during 3,000m Olympic run
1981 - Coca-Cola Bottling Co agrees to pump $34 million into black business
1975 - David Frost purchases exclusive rights to interview Nixon
1973 - 1st BART train travels thru transbay tube to Montgomery St Station
1945 - Japan announces willingness to surrender to Allies provided status of Emperor Hirohito remained unchanged
1936 - 120°F (49°C) at Ozark, Arkansas (state record)
1938 - 119°F (48°C), Pendleton, Oregon (state record)
1911 - Parliament Act reduces power of House of Lords
1800’s
1877 - Big Hole River: Col John Gibbon murders Nez-Perce
1866 - Transatlantic cable laid-Pres Buchanan spoke to Queen Victoria
1861 - Stand Watie's Cherokee troops fight on the Confederate side at the Battle of Wilson's Creek, in southern Missouri. The southerners are victorious. However, the participation of the Cherokees on the side of the south leads to further tensions among the Cherokees who wish to remain neutral. The first Cherokee to die in the Civil War falls during this battle.
1833 - Chicago incorporates as a village of about 200
1700’s
1790 - Robert Gray's Columbia, completes 1st American around world voyage
1776 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London
1600’s
1680 - In NM, Popé (Tewa)leads rebellion of Pueblo Indians against Spaniards: The Pueblo Revolt
1500’s
1500 - Portuguese sea captain Diego Diaz is first European to sight Madagascar
1400’s
1461 - Alfonso ed Espina, bishop of Osma urges for an Inquistion in Spain

Before 1000CE
991 - Battle of Maldon: English, led by Bryhtnoth, confront a band of inland-raiding Vikings near Maldon in Essex. The English are defeated and the story is immortalised in a well-known poem
610 - In Islam, the traditional date of the Laylat al-Qadr, when Muhammad began to receive the Qur'an

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 30’s
Devon Aoki, American supermodel and actress is 30
In their 40’s
Angie Harmon, fashion model and television/film actress is 40
Justin Theroux, American actor, director, and screenwriter is 41
In their 50’s
Rosanna Arquette, NYC, actress (Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hour) is 53
Antonio Banderas, Malaga Spain, actor (Phila, Evita, Mambo Kings) is 52
In their 60’s
Ian Anderson, Scotland, rocker (Jethro Tull-Bungle in the Jungle) is 65

In their 80’s
Rhonda Fleming, [Marilyn Louis], Hollywood California, actress (Spellbound) is 89

Remembered for being born today
Noah Beery Jr, NYC, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot) b. 1913
Jimmy Dean, Tx, actor/singer (Jimmy Dean Show, Diamonds are Forever) b. 1928
Eddie Fisher, Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain) b. 1928
John Galbreath, American businessman and philanthropist, b.1897
Edward Orval Gourdin, Jacksonville, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1924) b. 1897
Jack Haley, Boston Mass, actor (Tin Man-Wizard of Oz, Ford Star Revue) b. 1898
Herbert Hoover, West Branch Iowa, (R) 31st Pres (1929-1933) b. 1874
Mohammed V ibn Yusuf, King of Morocco b. 1909
Henri Nestlé, German confectioner and founder of Nestlé b. 1814
Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
Ray "Crash" Corrigan, cowboy actor (Crash Corrigan's Ranch), dies in 1976 at 74
Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader dies in 1637 at 55
Isaac Hayes, American musician and actor, dies of stroke in 2008 at 65
Patrick Kennedy, son of President Kennedy, dies in 1963 at only 3 days
Rin Tin Tin, German shepherd dog found by American in France at end of WWI dies in 1932 at 14

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
The pins and needles feeling you get when part of your body falls asleep. Bonus! This is also known as obdormition.
What is the answer?
Indigo, cerise [vivid pinkish red] , maroon, magenta
6X6 boxes
GOBLET
ORIOLE
BISQUE
LOQUAT
ELUATE
TEETER

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.
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August 9


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Flagstaff Almanac
Week: 32 / Day: 222
Today: High   83°…Low 50°
Records: High   90°(1980)…Low 35°(2009)
 Averages: High   79°…Low 52°
Wind:   3mph;  Gusts: 34mph
H O T  Today’s humidity:  32%

Quote of the Day

Today’s  Historical  Highlights
1992 - 25th Olympic Summer games closes in Barcelona, Spain
1974 - Richard Nixon resigns presidency, VP Gerald Ford becomes 38th pres
1956 - South African women demonstrate against pass laws
1945 - US drops 2nd atomic bomb "Fat Man" on Japan destroys part of Nagasaki
1944 - Smokey Bear debuts as spokesman for fire prevention
1936 - Jesse Owens wins 4th gold medal at Berlin Olympics
1930 - Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer's animated cartoon Dizzy Dishes
1859 - Elevator patented
1854 - Henry David Thoreau publishes "Walden"
1803 - 1st horses arrive in Hawaii
♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪ 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts   
This ‘getting old-er’ thing is becoming a pain. On Saturday I woke up with a sore foot. No reason, just a sore foot. I went out to get the mail and tripped and did a minor skinning of both knees and one hand. The pain that was there before the fall was still worse than the pain from the fall. Then yesterday the foot pain was gone, but the soreness from the fall was still there. This morning the pain I had in my right foot, which was gone, was now in my left foot…and the little pain from the fall was gone. Guess I’ll wait until tomorrow to see what is next.

It was a hot day with some clouds and no afternoon rain…and very little breeze. I was still able to enjoy my deck, the birds, and my small fountain. I hoping for a cool breeze to come in after the sun sets.

More good Olympics today…China certainly has some great athletes. They have top notch, grueling training schedules, and it is sure paying off…and making for some great competition. There have been very few glitches in these games and when there is a bad call, there are consequences and/or changes. I still would enjoy more live events, but what I am watching is great.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
What is the answer?
What do the following words have in common?STURDY  THIRSTY  CALMNESS  DEFORMED  INOPERATIVE
6X6 Word Boxes
The answer to 1 across is the same word as the answer to 1 down; 2 across is the same as 2 down; etc. Can you solve these Word Boxes? Each answer is 6 letters.
1.      trigonometric function
2.      tell
3.      health service place
4.      Jewish religious official
5.      indolent
6.      don't tell it
Hint: upper left to lower right letters are: A-E-I-T-S-T
Lifestyle  Substance     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
In an office:
AFTER TEA BREAK STAFF SHOULD EMPTY THE TEAPOT
AND STAND UPSIDE DOWN ON THE DRAINING BOARD
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Brannock Device
London 2012—

Female Artist Folk Songs: Marianne Faithfull

Harper’s Index         
Estimated percentage by which the population of Japan will shirk by 2060: 32Portion of its population that will be out of the workforce by then: 1/2
Found on You Tube 

Joke-of-the-day
A couple is in bed sleeping when there's a rat-a-tat-tat on the door.The husband rolls over and looks at the clock, and it's half past 3 in the morning.” I’m not getting out of bed at this time," he thinks, and rolls over. Then, a louder knock follows. So he drags himself out of bed, goes downstairs, opens the door, and there's a man standing there. It didn't take the homeowner long to realize the man was drunk.
"Hi there," slurs the stranger, "Can you give me a push?" "No, get lost. It's half past three and I was in bed," says the man as he slams the door.
He goes back up to bed and tell his wife what happened and she says, "That wasn't very nice of you. Remember that night we broke down in the pouring rain on the way to pick the kids up from the baby-sitter and you had to knock on that man's house to get us started again? What would have happened if he'd told us to get lost?""But the guy was drunk," says the husband."It doesn't matter," says the wife.” He needs our help and it would be the Christian thing to help him." So the husband gets out of bed again, gets dressed, and goes downstairs.He opens the door, and not being able to see the stranger anywhere,
He shouts, "Hey, do you still want a push?" And he hears a voice cry out, "Yeah, please."So, still being unable to see the stranger he shouts, "Where are you?"
The drunk replies, "Over here, on the swing."
Rules of Thumb   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
DRESSING A BUNCH OF KIDS: Dress the best-behaved child first. They are less likely to undo your preparations by the time you're ready to leave.
Yeah, It Really Happened
 ATLANTA - A 30-year-old Atlanta woman is OK after accidentally swallowing a butter knife, doctors said.
The woman was apparently demonstrating to a friend that she no longer had a gag reflex because of her history with bulimia, the New York Daily News reported. During her exhibition, she laughed and accidentally swallowed the knife, New England Journal of Medicine said. She was rushed to the hospital where doctors performed a surgery to remove the knife from her body.
Drs. Aida Venado and Sarah Prebil said doctors were able to remove the knife without damaging the woman's throat or stomach. However, her husband later revealed the woman had swallowed a knife four years ago and she was then transferred to a psychiatric unit, the doctors said.
The Los Angeles Times reported that most instances of people swallowing foreign objects are not life-threatening, citing an Emedicine.com article. "After reaching the stomach, a foreign body has greater than a 90 percent chance of passage," the article states. Although, the article said there are about 1,500 deaths a year from ingesting foreign bodies.           
Somewhat Useless Information   
  • The largest national park, Wrangell-St. Elias in Alaska, is larger than nine states and covers an area of more than 13,000 square miles. Alaska is also home to the next three largest National Parks in the country: Gates of the Arctic, Denali, and Katmai.
  • One of the nation's newest national parks is also its smallest. Wolf Trap Farm in Virginia, designated a national park in 2003, is only one fifth of a square mile in size. It's known as the first National Park for the Performing Arts.
  • There is one Glacier National Park along the British Columbia border in Montana, and another Glacier National Park in British Columbia itself. The two parks have about 250 miles of land between them.
  • At Yosemite National Park, bears that cause run-ins with visitors are usually "relocated" to remote areas of the park. Unfortunately, because bears are territorial, the tactic works only about 20 percent of the time. The creatures will often return to the easiest known source of nutrition: human food.
  • The first state to ratify the Constitution, Delaware, also happens to be the last state without a unit of the National Park Service. Every other state is home to 1 of 388 NPS-designated sites, including National Memorials, National Monuments, and National Historic Parks.
  • While Yellowstone is popularly known as the first national park, it was really the second. Congress proclaimed Arkansas's Hot Springs Reservation a "national park" back in 1832, and it was officially added to the NPS list in 1921.


Calendar Information        
Happening This Week:
5-11
Assistance Dog Week
Knights of Columbus Family Week
National Farmers' Market Week
National Resurrect Romance Week
6-12
Exercise with Your Child Week
Exhibitor Appreciation Week
National Fraud Awareness Week
National Hobo Week
Psychic Week
Single Working Women's Week
Sturgis Rally
World Breastfeeding Week

Today Is                                                                      
International Day of The World's Indigenous People
National Polka Festival
Veep Day (Showing US Constitution works: G. Ford becomes President: 1974)
Japan: Moment of Silence (1945 Nagasaki Day)
Singapore: National Day (1965 from Malaysia)
South Africa: National Women's Day  

Today’s Events Through History  
2000’s
2001 - US President George W. Bush announces his support for federal funding 
            of limited research on embryonic stem cells
1900’s
1999 - Russian President Boris Yeltsin fires his Prime Minister, Sergei Stepashin, 
            and for the fourth time fires his entire cabinet
1999 - The Diet of Japan enacts a law establishing the Hinomaru and  Kimi Ga Yo 
             as the official national flag and national anthem
1979 - English seaside resort Brighton gets 1st British nude beach
1942 - Mahatma Gandhi & 50 others arrested in Bombay after passing of a "quit India" 
            campaign by the All-India Congress
1923 - NY State Golf Association formed
1907 - The first Boy Scout encampment concludes at Brownsea Island in 
            Southern England
1800’s
1823 - In June Arikara warriors attack an American expedition. A force of 500 Sioux 
            warriors finds the Arikara and a battle takes place. Colonel Henry Leavenworth 
            soon arrives with his force of 200 soldiers. He reports his men kill fifty Arikara 
            and the Sioux kill fifteen. The Sioux lose two warriors.
1814 - The Treaty of Fort Jackson (7 stat.120) officially ends the Creek War. The
            Creeks, including those who fought with Andrew Jackson, are forced to cede 
            22,000,000 acres, almost half their lands, to the United States.

1600’s
1673 - Dutch recapture NY from English; regained by English in 1674
1500’s
1559 - Willem of Orange becomes viceroy of Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
1400’s
1483 - Opening of the Sistine Chapel

Before 1000CE
 48 BC - Caesar's civil war: Battle of Pharsalus - Julius Caesar decisively 
               defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt

Today’s Birthdays                                                           
In their 40’s
Gillian Anderson, actress (X-Files) is 44
Eric Bana, Australian TV/Movie actor is 44
In their 50’s
Melanie Griffith, actress (Working Girl, Milk Money, Now & Then) is 55
In their 60’s
Sam Elliott, actor (Big Chill, Fatal Beauty) is 68
Ken Norton, heavyweight boxing champ/TV panelist (Gong Show) is 69
In their 70’s
Rod Laver, Australia, tennis ace (1962, 1969 Grand Slam) is 74

Remembered for being born today
Whitney Houston, Newark NJ, singer (One Moment in Time, Bodyguard) b. 1963
Robert McCormick, Danville Ky, NBC newscaster (Current Opinion) b. 1911
William Thomas Green Morton, dentist, used ether b.1819
Robert Shaw, England, actor (Deep, Jaws, Sting, Black Sunday) b. 1927
Pamela Lyndon Travers, Queensland, Australia, writer (Mary Poppins) b. 1899
Izaak Walton, England, biographer/fisherman/writer (Compleat Angler) b. 1593
Ralph Wyckoff, American pioneer in x-ray crystallography b. 1897
Today’s Historical Obits                                                           
James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos, English patron of the arts dies in 1744 at 71
Abigail Folger, US, coffee magnate (Folgers), murdered in Manson Murders 
       in 1969 at 25
Hermann Hesse, German/Swiss poet/author (Nobel 1946), dies in 1962 at 85
Bernie Mac, American comedian, actor dies of pneumonia in 2008 at 50
George P Marshall, NFL president (Washington Redskins), dies after long illness 
        in 1969 at 72
Alan Napier, (Alfred the Butler-Batman), dies in 1988 at 85
Joe O'Donnell, American documentary photographer, photojournalist dies in 
        2007 at 85
Ted Stevens, US Senator-AK, dies in plane crash in 2010 at 86

Answers                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
What is used to measure your feet at the shoe store.
What is the answer?
Each contains, consecutively, three consecutive  letters of the alphabetSTURDY  THIRSTY  CALMNESS  DEFORMED  INOPERATIVE
6X6 boxes
ARCCOS
RELATE
CLINIC
CANTOR
OTIOSE
SECRET
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.
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