August 23


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Flagstaff Almanac…  
Week: 34 / Day: 236   Today: High   71°…Low 53°
Records: High   88°(1938) …Low 32°(1968)
Averages: High   78°…Low 49°
Wind:   12mph;  Gusts: 14mph
Big Afternoon Rain  Today’s average humidity:  73%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…
2005 - Hurricane Katrina forms over the Bahamas, later becomes a 
            category 5 hurricane
1987 - 15-years old boy hijacks KLM B737, demands $1 billion
1979 - Bolshoi Ballet dancer Alexander Godunov defects in NYC
1948 - World Council of Churches formed by 147 churches from 44 countries
1919 - "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip premieres in Chicago Tribune
1869 - 1st carload of freight (boots & shoes) arrives in SF, from Boston

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts…   
Big storm this afternoon, flash flood warnings for our area…not surprised, it was really coming down for about 30 minutes.

I got a call from a former colleague today, and we are doing lunch Friday. It will be good to catch up. He is still working, so somehow he got a Friday off. Good deal. Tomorrow is lunch with Cheryl, as Mary is in Chicago, and Sunday is a 70th birthday party for one of our discussion group. Busy weekend ahead.

Just as the Republican Convention is getting ready for its Tampa shindig, news from the weatherman that Hurricane Isaac may join in the festivities. That will certainly add some news to the convention since we know who will be nominated, who will be speaking, and the platform. I hope my friends in Florida will be OK…it’s too early to know who, if any will be involved in any weather messes. Hopefully everyone in Florida will be safe.

For those wondering about the violence in Kenya, yes is it very sad and no our tour thankfully wasn’t anywhere near the areas involved. Tribal violence in that part of Kenya is nothing new. While I have visited Africa several times, we have always avoided dangerous areas. Most of Africa loves tourism as it brings in much needed income for its people and the various tourist boards and governments aren’t going to send tourists into an area of conflict.  It would ruin their income. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister passed away, and hopefully there will be a peaceful transition of power. He took over in a coup some twenty years ago and while he was a socialist dictator, he did help the people of Ethiopia and was a leader of the Horn of Africa, working to get stability, both economic and political, to the area. It is unclear if the new leadership will remain as friendly to the US as he was. Just like Egypt, I am glad I traveled to Ethiopia in a peaceful time.

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
What is the answer?
Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)
fairy tale creator, small in girth (4,5)
Rebus…
Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
War Dims Hope for Peace
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Borborygmus
Historic Flagstaff, AZ—…

60’s music…:

Harper’s Index…         
Number of Denmark residents told by the Danish lottery that they’d won at least $3.5 billion: 133Average size of the actual prizes the group had won: $18
Unusal Fact of the Day…
Before Duncan Hines helped create the food label bearing his name, he wrote popular food and lodging guides.
Found on You Tube… 
Mark Russell looks at Campaign '96
Joke-of-the-day…
Q. What did the fish say when it swam into the wall?
 A. Dam!
Rules of Thumb…   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
POPPING CORN: To get popping-corn oil hot enough, place three kernels in the oil as it heats; when all three pop, the oil is hot enough.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
AKTOBE, Kazakhstan - Police in Kazakhstan said a man facing theft charges allegedly stole a case of beer from a store and later returned several unopened bottles. Investigators in the Aktobe region said the man allegedly stole a 14-pack of beer from a store Saturday and later returned to leave six unopened bottles he had decided not to drink, RIA Novosti reported Tuesday. Police told CA-News officers arrested a 27-year-old man from an adjacent apartment building Monday in connection with the incident. They said the man, whose name was not released, has a prior theft conviction.               
Somewhat Useless Information…   
  • The amount of money spent at family clothing stores in August 2011 was $7.7 billion. Only in November and December were sales higher. Similarly, sales at book stores in August 2011 totaled $2.4 billion, the strongest sales month of the year.
  • The number of children and adults enrolled in school throughout the country in October 2010 - from nursery school to college - totaled 79 million. They comprised 27 percent of the entire population age three and older.
  • Median earnings of full-time, year-round workers with an advanced degree in 2009 equaled $74,000. Workers whose highest degree was a bachelor's had median earnings of $56,000. Median earnings for full-time, year-round workers with a high school diploma was $33,000, while workers with less than high school diploma had $25,000 median earnings.
  • The percentage of all college students 35 and older in October 2010 was 16 percent. They made up 34 percent of those attending school part time.
  • The percentage of children 3 to 6 enrolled in kindergarten who attended all day, as of October 2010, was 72 percent.
  • The percentage of 18- to 24-year-olds enrolled in college in 2010 was 41 percent.

Calendar Information…        
Happening This Week:
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series
19-25
Minority Enterprise Development Week

Today Is…                                                                      
Day For The Remembrance of The Slave Trade & Its Abolition
National Spongecake Day
Valentino Day
Virgo Begins  

Today’s Events Through History…  
2000’s
2011 - Libyan leader Muammar al-Gaddafi is overthrown after the National 
            Transitional Council forces take control of Bab al-Azizia compound 
            during the 2011 Libyan Civil War
2010 - Manila hostage crisis, which occurred at the Quirino Grandstand in 
            Manila, where a dismissed police officer took hostage a tour bus full of 
            Chinese nationals
1900’s
1996 - Osama bin Laden issues message entitled 'A declaration of war 
            against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.'
1995 - Larry Hagman receives a liver transplant
1976 - Heavy earthquake strikes China, 1,000s die
1975 - Communists take over Laos
1972 - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew 
            but not unanimous-1 vote went to NBC newsman David Brinkley)
1960 - World's largest frog (3.3 kg/7.3 lbs) caught (Equatorial Guinea)
1950 - West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1942 - 1st US flights to land on Guadalcanal
1924 - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1917 - Race riot in Houston Texas (2 blacks & 11 whites killed)
1904 - Automobile tire chain patented
1800’s
1889 - 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in US (SF)
1876 - "Treaty 6 Between Her Majesty The Queen and The Plain and Wood 
             Cree Indians and Other Tribes of Indians at Fort Carlton, Fort Pitt and Battle 
             River with Adhesions" is signed in Canada.
1838 - Mt Holyoke Female Seminary (South Hadley, Mass) 1st graduating class
1833 - Britain abolishes slavery in colonies; 700,000 slaves freed
1700’s
1784 - Eastern Tennessee settlers declare their area an independent state & 
            name it Franklin; a year later the Continental Congress rejects it
1732 - Peace conference held in Philadelphia with the local Indians. Attending 
            the meeting are several Iroquois Chiefs, including Onondaga Chief Shikellamy
1600’s
1617 - 1st one-way streets open (London)
1500’s
1555 - Calvinists are granted rights in the Netherlands
1541 - French explorer Jacques Cartier lands near Quebec City in his third 
            voyage to Canada

1300’s
1305 - William Wallace, Scottish patriot, is executed for high treason by Edward I 
            of England

Before 1000CE
79 - Mount Vesuvius begins stirring, on the feast day of Vulcan, the Roman god of fire

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           
Under 30
Sun Ming Ming, 7’ 9” Chinese basketball player is 29
In their 30’s
Kobe Bryant, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, NBA guard (LA Lakers) is 34
In their 40’s
Jay Mohr, American actor and comedian is 42

In their 60’s
Shelley Long, actress (Diane-Cheers, Money Pit) will be 63
Queen Noor, of Jordan is 61
Rick Springfield, Australian actor, singer, (General Hospital, Jessie's Girl) is 62
In their 70’s
Barbara Eden, [Huffman], Tucson Az, actress (Dream of Jeannie) is 78
Christian "Sonny" Jurgensen, NFL QB (Eagles, Redskins) /sportscaster is 78
Lee Majors, Wyandotte, actor ($6,000,000 Man, The Fall Guy) is 71
Richard Sanders, Harrisburg Pa, actor (Les-WKRP, Spencer, Berrengers) is 72
In their 80’s
Vera Miles, [Ralston], Boise City ID, actress (Psycho) is 82
Mark Russell, Buffalo NY, political satirist/pianist (Real People) is 80

Remembered for being born today
Richard Adler, composer/songwriter (Damn Yankees, Pajama Game) b. 1923
Gene Kelly, Pitts, dancer/actor (An American in Paris, Going My Way) b. 1912
Louis XVI, Versailles, king of France (1774-93) eventually guillotined b. 1754
River Phoenix, Madras Ore, actor (Little Nikta, Stand By Me) b. 1970
Malvina Reynolds, American folk singer/songwriter b. 1900
Elizabeth "Betty" Robinson, US 100m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1928) b. 1911
Arnold Toynbee, English economist and social reformer b. 1852
Sarah Frances Whiting, American physicist and astronomer b. 1847
Sollie Paul ‘Tex’ Williams, American singer b. 1917

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           
The original Shamu, Sea World orca retired early for attacking female trainer 
      dies in 1971
Bobby Bonds, American baseball player and manager dies of lung cancer 
     in 2003 at 57
Hoot Gibson, silent screen cowboy actor (Last Outlaw), dies of cancer in 1962 at 70
Oscar Hammerstein II, Broadway librettist, dies of stomach cancer in 1960 at 65
Hank Patterson, actor (Fred Ziffel-Green Acres), dies in 1975 at 87
Brock Peters, American actor (To Kill a Mockingbird) dies in 2005 at 78
Rudolph Valentino, silent movie idol (Sheik), dies of severe Pleurisy in 1926 at 31
William Wallace (Uilleam Uallas), Scottish patriot, hanged, disemboweled & 
       beheaded in 1305
Alexander Wilson, Scottish-born ornithologist drowns while following bird in 1813 at 47

Answers…                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
(Pronounced bor-buh-rig-mus) is the name for the rumbling sounds made by the stomach. These are caused by the movement of fluids and gases, as food, acids and digestive juices migrate from the stomach into the upper part of the small intestine. The average body makes two gallons of digestive juices a day. The hydrochloric acid in your stomach is so strong it could eat into metal, but a special form of mucus protects your inner linings from this acid along the length of its journey.

What is the answer?
Slim Grimm
Rebus
 Back to square one

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 22


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Flagstaff Almanac…  
Week: 34 / Day:  235  Today: High   74°…Low 59°
Records: High   90°(2009,1991) …Low 33°(1979)
Averages: High   78°…Low 49 °
Wind:   4mph;  Gusts: 18mph
Rain  Today’s average humidity:  68%

Quote of the Day…

Today’s  Historical  Highlights…
2007 - The Storm botnet, a botnet created by the Storm Worm, sends out a 
            record 57 million e-mails in one day
1989 - 1st complete ring around Neptune discovered
1972 - International Olympic Committee expels Rhodesia for its racist policies
1952 - The penal colony on Devil's Island is permanently closed
1950 - Althea Gibson becomes 1st black competitor in natl tennis competition
1945 - Vietnam conflict begins as Ho Chi Minh leads a successful coup
1944 - Hitler orders Paris to be destroyed
1926 - Gold discovered in Johannesburg, South Africa
1911 - Mona Lisa stolen from Louvre (Recovered in 1913)
1849 -The first air raid in history. Austria launches pilotless balloons against 
             the Italian city of Venice
1788 - Sierra Leone, settled by British as a former haven for slaves
1614 - Trades people under Vincent Fettmilch chase & plunder Jews out of 
            ghetto in Frankfurt

♪   Happy Birthday To: ♪.. 
How many can you identify…answers in Today’s Birthdays
 
Free Rambling Thoughts…   
An unusually cloudy day here…with rain on and off most of the day. Cloudy days make me clean…not sure why, but it happens more often than not. So today was office cleaning day. So nice to have the smell of fresh rain around the house. It would rain, then the pavement would dry out and a little later it would rain again.

NAU is opening soon…and that means we get our local TV news in a few weeks. That will be nice. For those who live in major cities, you have local stuff all the time. Here in Flagstaff, we can’t support a local TV station so the University stepped up and has Communication’s students produce, direct, and run the news with a couple of locals co-anchoring for the kids. Of course our local weatherman is on board most days.

I am really tired of hearing about the Conservative agenda on abortion. This is putting religion in to government. One idiot, a possible Senator, says that the female body can shut down if it is a legitimate rape. The plank in the Republican party says that abortion is wrong period. It doesn’t deal with either rape or incest. The real fear seems to be that many women become pregnant by mistake and then claim rape to get an abortion. Of course there is no factual information that this is happening. There are facts that show 30000+ women became pregnant from a rape/incest incident last year. The perps are in prison or awaiting trial. As an adoptee I believe that no woman should be forced to have a child after a rape/incest. I am so confused, as the leading Conservatives keep talking about less government in our lives (especially our business lives?) but keep adding more government into private lives. Many of these idiots say they never met anyone who became pregnant from a rape/incest doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen. It happens about 82 times a day in the US.  

Game   Center: (answers at the end of post)
What is the answer?
Answer the following clue in two rhyming words (e.g. an obese feline is a fat cat) If only one number is given, the answer is a word featuring internal rhyme (e.g. voodoo)
ingress of those people just below the nobility (6,5)
NEW!!!!    Rebus…
Can you figure out what this means?

Lifestyle  Substance…     
Do you remember this?

Read Carefully!!
Juvenile Court to Try Shooting Defendant
Do you know what this word means?
What is this not so common name of a common object?
Aglet
Historic Flagstaff, AZ—…

60’s music…:
In The Midnight Hour- Wilson Pickett
Sunshine Of Your Love- Cream
Purple Haze- Jimi Hendrix
A Day In The Life- Beatles
Harper’s Index…         
Percentage of worldwide data theft last year that was tied to political activism: 58
Unusal Fact of the Day…
Although he hit 563 career home runs, Reggie Jackson never hit more than 30 homers in consecutive seasons.
Found on You Tube… 

Joke-of-the-day…
One day, a grandpa and his grandson go golfing. The young one is really good and the old one is just giving him tips. They are on hole 8 and there is a tree in the way and the grandpa says,
"When I was your age, I would hit the ball right over that tree."
So, the grandson hits the ball and it bumps against the tree and lands not too far from where it started. "Of course," added the grandpa, "when I was your age, the tree was only 3 feet tall."
Rules of Thumb…   
Easy shortcuts to make an ‘educated’ guess
JUDGING DESIGN When simple things need instructions, it is a sign of poor design.
Yeah, It Really Happened…
When Robert Anthony Buell, 62, was executed by lethal injection on September 2002 in Lucasville, Ohio for the murder of an 11-year-old girl, he chose for his last meal, a single black, unpitted olive.It is not exactly sure why he chose his last meal to be so spartan. Buell had ample time during his eight years on death row to think about it. Another condemned man, Peter J. Miniel, 42, who was executed by lethal injection in October, 2004, in Huntsville, Texas, for the murder of a 21-year-old man, had no problems pigging out before his execution.
After 16 years of death row prison chow, Miniel gorged himself on 20 beef tacos, 20 beef enchiladas, two double cheeseburgers, a pizza with jalapeños, fried chicken, spaghetti with salt, a small fruit cake, half of a chocolate cake, half of a vanilla cake, cookies-n-cream ice cream, caramel pecan fudge ice cream, two Coca-Colas, two Pepsi-Colas, two root beers and two orange juices.
Somewhat Useless Information…   
  • The late Bobby Pickett perfected his Boris Karloff impersonation as a youngster, and it served him well when he employed it to great effect on "Monster Mash." The song topped the music charts Halloween week in 1962 and became a perennial late-October favorite.
  • Best known for the novelty hits "Wooly Bully" and "Lil' Red Riding Hood," the leader of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs wasn't named Samuel, but Domingo. The nickname was an abbreviation of his last name, Samudio.
  • Johnny Horton recorded two versions of his hit "The Battle of New Orleans," one for American audiences and one for release in the United Kingdom. The lyrics were changed in the overseas version to examine the historic event from the British perspective.
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic's second single, "Another One Rides the Bus," was recorded live on the Dr. Demento radio program in 1980. It was a step up from his first single, "My Bologna," which Al had recorded in the bathroom across the hall from the student radio station at Cal Poly.
  • Tom Lehrer, whose novelty hits included "The Vatican Rug" and "The Masochicsm Tango," was a major-league brainiac. He earned a Master's degree in math from Harvard before he turned 20 and went on to teach the subject at MIT and UC-Santa Cruz.
  • Dickie Goodman made a music career with a microphone and a razor blade. He inter-spliced short snippets of up-and-coming pop hits with his own voice (as a reporter or interviewer), spawning a long series of novelty singles, beginning with "The Flying Saucer" in 1956.


Calendar Information…        
Happening This Week:
17-26
Little League Baseball World Series
19-25
Minority Enterprise Development Week

Today Is…                                                                      
Be An Angel Day 
Southern Hemisphere Hoodie Hoo Day [go outside at noon and yell ‘hoodie hoo’ to chase winter away)

Today’s Events Through History…  
2000’s
2007 - The Texas Rangers rout the Baltimore Orioles 30-3, the most runs scored 
            by a team in modern MLB history
2004 - A version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, 
            are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway
2003 - Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended after refusing to comply 
            with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten 
           Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building
1900’s
1988 - NBC premieres "Later" with Bob Costas (1st guest Linda Ellerbee)
1984 - Rep convention in Dallas renominates Pres Reagan & VP Bush
1975 - Assassination attempt on President Gerald Ford
1968 - 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)
1962 - Failed assassination on President De Gaulle
1962 - Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage
            from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1951 - Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium, Berlin before 75,052
1941 - Nazi troops reach Lenningrad
1932 - The BBC first experiments with television broadcasting
1921 - J Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1906 - 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1902 - Pres Teddy Roosevelt became 1st US chief executive to ride in a car
1800’s
1877 - Nez Perce flee into to Yellowstone National Park
1864 - International Red Cross forms
1862 - Santee Sioux attack Fort Ridgely
1848 - The United States annexes New Mexico
1806: Pike’s expedition has reached a village of the Little Osage near the forks of the 
           Osage River in modern Missouri. He holds a council here with both the Grand 
            and Little Osage. The Little Osage are lead by Tuttassuggy or "The Wind," and
            the Grand Osage by Cheveau Blanc, or White Hair.
1700’s
1791 - Haitian Slave Revolution begins under voodoo priest Boukman
1762 - 1st female (Ann Franklin) US newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1600’s
1670: Hiacoomes preaches his first sermon to his Wampanoag people on 
           Martha's Vineyard.
1639 - Madras (now Chennai), India, is founded by the British East India Company 
            on a sliver of land bought from local Nayak rulers

1100’s
1138 - English defeated Scots at Cowton Moor Banners of various saints were 
            carried into battle which led to being called Battle of the Standard

Before 1000CE
565 - St Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness

Today’s Birthdays…                                                           
In their 40’s
Ty Burrell, actor (Modern Family) is 45
Giada De Laurentiis, Italian/American chef and television host is 42
Rick Yune, actor is 41
In their 50’s
Holly Dunn, San Antonio Tx, country singer (Daddy's Hands) is 55
John Kidd, NFL punter (Miami Dolphins) is 51
In their 60’s
Steve Kroft, Kokomo Ind, co-editor (60 Minutes) is 67
I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, White House Chief of Staff is 62
Cindy Williams, actress (Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days) is 65
In their 70’s
Morton Dean (Morton Dubitsky) , Fall River Mass, TV newscaster (CBS, ABC) is 77
Valerie Harper, (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda, Valerie) will be 72
H Norman Schwarzkopf, Trenton NJ, 4-star Army general (Gulf War) is 78
Carl Yastrzemski, NY, Boston Red Sox great (1967 AL MVP, Hall of Fame) is 73
In their 80’s
Honor Blackman, actress (Pussy Galore-Goldfinger) is 86

Remembered for being born today
Ray[mond Douglas] Bradbury, Ill, sci-fi author (Fahrenheit 451) b. 1920
David Dellinger, American social rights and peace movement leader 
       (Chicago 7) b. 1915
George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) b. 1880
James Hillier, Co-inventor of the electron microscope b. 1915
John Lee Hooker, Clarksdale Mississippi, blues guitarist (Canned Heat) b. 1917
John Lupton, Highland Park Ill, actor (Tom-Broken Arrow) b. 1920
James Kirke Paulding, American author, Sec. of Navy b. 1778
Virginia Clemm Poe, wife of Edgar Allan Poe b. 1822

Today’s Historical Obits…                                                           
Abd Allah Abu Bekr, Arabic merchant/1st kalief of Islam dies of battle wounds in 634
Michael Collins, Irish nationalist leader, killed in ambush in 1922 at 31
Isabella, Queen of England dies in 1358 at 62 or 63
Richard III, king of England (1483-85), killed in battle in 1485 at 32

Answers…                                                                                                                                            
Do you know what this word means?
The plastic coating on a shoelace.
What is the answer?
Gentry entry
Rebus
A cut above the rest 
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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