* July 20, 2012 *

Here's a great idea for a drip irrigation system that I'd like to set up in our back yard. I'm listening to the FD audio from the Colorado theater shooting. A gunman in a gas mask barged into a theater during a premiere Batman, hurled a gas canister and then opened fire, killing 12 people and injuring at least 50 others in one of the deadliest mass shootings in recent U.S. history. Andrew's birthday Tuesday!

2nd great flood hits Johnstown (1977):

A flash flood hits Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on this day in 1977, killing 84 people and causing millions of dollars in damages. This flood came 88 years after the infamous Great Flood of 1889 that killed more than 2,000 people in Johnstown. As they had in the first flood, the dams in the Conemaugh Valley failed, bringing disaster to the town.

The flood occurred when an extraordinary amount of rain came down in the Conemaugh Valley in a short period of time. Nearly 12 inches were measured in 10 hours. The National Weather Service later estimated that this amount of rain in that location should happen less than once every 1,000 years.

The largest dam that burst was at Laurel Run. This 10-year-old earthen dam held back 100 million gallons of water. Despite having a 42-foot-high spillway, the dam failed and the resulting flood devastated the town of Tanneryville. Five other dams in the area also burst, releasing another 30 million gallons of water over the landscape.

The failure of the dams came as a big surprise. Johnstown had constructed an entire system designed to completely eliminate the flood risk. In addition, regular inspections had turned up no defects. Still, the dams were no match for the thunderstorm that stalled over the area on July 20.

In addition to the 84 people who lost their lives to the flood, $300 million in damages were suffered and hundreds of people lost their homes. President Carter declared the region a federal disaster area and the National Guard was sent to assist in the relief efforts. Despite millions spent to rehabilitate the Johnstown area, the economy never recovered. The city's population decreased nearly 15 percent in the aftermath of the flood, as people moved away to rebuild their lives elsewhere.

Chocolate bar with almonds will give you the energy to whiz through your day.

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Harry Potter 3):

Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint) and Hermione (Emma Watson) return to Hogwarts for a third adventure-and-magic-filled year in this follow-up to the first two Potter blockbusters. Harry comes face-to-face with danger yet again, this time in the form of escaped convict Sirius Black (Gary Oldman). In a bid for help, Harry turns to sympathetic Professor Lupin (David Thewlis) -- but will it be enough?

If your entire day seems to be filled with  e-mails, try setting designated times (8:a, 11:a, & 3:p) to tackle your e-mail inbox for 1 hour. Close your e-mail during the rest of your day. This will allow you to focus on other tasks completely.

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Usufruct:

1: The legal right of using & enjoying the fruits or profits of something belonging to another. 2: The right to use or enjoy something.

He has willed all of his property to the conservation society, though his children will retain the house as a 50-year usufruct.

Thomas Jefferson said, "The earth belongs in usufruct to the living." He understood that when you hold something in usufruct, you gain something of significant value, but only temporarily. The gains granted by usufruct can be clearly seen in the Latin phrase from which the word developed, usus et fructus, which means "use & enjoyment." Latin speakers condenses that phrase to ususfructus, the term English-speakers used as the model for our modern word. "Usufruct" has been used as a noun for the legal right to use something since at least the 1630s. Any right granted by usufruct ends at a specific point, usually the death of the individual who holds it.

What 3-letter word has the greatest number of definitions in the Oxford English Dictionary?

Set, with 464 definitions.

What golfing great helped design the first golf clubs to be given numbers instead of Scottish names like mashie, baffie, and niblick?

When friends learn that 1 of their group is about to become a grandmother, they may stage a "grandmother shower." Gifts are opened on the spot, whether they're intended for the mother-to-be or for the grandmother. Gifts for the grandmother include things she can use when caring for the new baby at her own home - toys & stuffed animals, storybooks, bibs.

Which country has the largest, 2nd largest, & 3rd largest army?

A. China

B. N. Korea

C. India

Which driver won the most, 2nd most, & 3rd most Indy 500s?

A. Bobby Unser

B. Bill Vukovich

C. A.J. Foyt

CAB. Foyt won the race 4 times, Unser, 3, & Vukovich, 2. As of 2006, no one has ever won the Indy 5 times.

You'll have the desire for stuff beaten out of you once you go broke. Then you'll learn that it's more important to be than to have, although much of the world will try to convince you that you must have in order to be.