Mar 1

 

Week 10 Day: 60  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 49° \16°  Wind: 14mph \ Gusts: 22mph

Moderate risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 465mi \ nearest Lightning: 1631mi

Mar Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23°  (6 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

In Navajo: April is called T’aachil, Growth of Early Plant Life.

Action & Skill Toys Month
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month Link
Alport Syndrome Awareness Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month  Link  or  Link
Asset Management Awareness Month  Link
Brain Injury Awareness Month Link

Weekly Observations

 

28 - 3/1	Isra Al Mi'Raj Carnival
1-7	Hearing Awareness Week: Link LGBT Health Awareness Week Link National Cheerleading Week National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week National Ghostwriters Week National Invest in a Veteran Week  Link National Pet Sitters Week Link Return The Borrowed Books Week Universal Human Beings Week Link Will Eisner Week  Link World Hearing Awareness Week

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice day to end the month.

I had a great lunch with friends. We ordered mini lava cakes for my birthday, but, alas, the kitchen didn’t tell the waitress there is no lava cake on sight…only on the menu? Haha.

I had to have a little blood drawn this morning. It went well, and since my DOB is on every vial, I got lots of Happy birthday wishes at the lab.

60 Minutes pointed out the many vulnerabilities to our electric grid. ‘They’ are working on closing them up, but it will take decades. No excuse.

I also leaned that there are 40+ American citizens being held as ‘wrongfully detained’ by numerous governments.  Several in Myanmar, 4 in Iran, 9 in Venezuela stand out. Again ‘They’ are working on it. I feel for the many families who have relatives in this situation.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

Why would a thief only rob a bank at noon?

Because then even the clocks would have their hands up

Trivia

Q: In a game of netball how many players on a team are allowed To score?

 

Q: In Which Sport Was Desmond Douglas Britain's Leading Competitor?

 

Q: In A Decathlon What Is the First Event

 

Q: Which Sporting Event Was BBC2's First Ever Color Transmission In 1967?

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Two

Answer 2: Table Tennis

Answer 3: 100 Meters

Answer 4: Wimbledon

 

Historical Events

Ø    1692 – In Salem Village in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba, an Indian slave from Barbados, were accused of witchcraft, beginning the Salem Witchcraft Trials. Assuming those convicted were not practicing the dark arts, 19 innocent women and men were killed as a result of the trials.

Ø    1781 – The articles of Confederation were ratified by the 13 original states.

Ø    1790 – The first United States census was authorized.

Ø    1872 – Congress made 1,221,773 acres of public land in the area of what were later the states of Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho as America’s first national park – Yellowstone National Park. Yellowstone National Park spans an area of 3,468.4 square miles.

Ø    1921 – Harry Houdini earned a US Patent (#1,370,31) for a safety Diver Suit for his underwater magic escape tricks.

Ø    1932 – The Charles (Jr.) Lindbergh Kidnapping occurred.

Ø    1954 – At Bikini Atoll, US hydrogen bomb code-named Bravo exploded.

Ø    1961 – The Peace Corps was established

Ø    1983 – Swatch watches were introduced. I’m still looking to replace my wife’s black face, black band, black hands edition.

Ø    1995 – Yahoo! was incorporated.

Ø    1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

Ø    1999 – Land Mines were banned in a United Nations treaty.

Birthdays Today

95 – Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor

@84 – Robert Conrad, American actor (d. 2020)

78 – Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter and actor

77 – Dirk Benedict [Dirk Niewoehner], American actor, director

@76 – Dinah Shore, American radio, television personality (d. 1994; cancer)

@73 – David Niven, English actor (d, 1983; ALS)

@73 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995; assassination)

@70 – Pete Rozelle, commissioner of the National Football League (d. 1996; brain cancer)

69 – Alan Thicke [Alan Willis Jeffrey], Canadian-American actor (d. 2016; aortic dissection)

68 – Catherine Bach, American actress

68 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer

66– Tim Daly, American actor

56– Don Lemon, CNN

53 – Javier Bardem, actor

48 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor

44 – Jensen Ackles, American actor

35 – Ke$ha, American singer

@40 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1944; plane crash)

@39 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (died in 1849)

28 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter

 

Feb 28

 

Week: 10 Day: 59	Ave. Sky Cover:  15% Visibility: 10 miles
Local Temp:   43°\ 3° Wind: 12mph\ Gusts: 18mph	Moderate risk of fire Active fire: 317mi. \ Lightning: 1816mi.
Feb Averages: 46°\19° (5 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

28 - 3/1	Isra Al Mi'Raj Carnival 28-3/1
28-3/4	National Invasive Species Awareness Week Link

 

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Snow slowly melting.

Last night was a great discussion. We had 3 new couples attend along with our regulars. The meeting usually about 9pm after 2-hour discussion. We agreed that there needs to be more media attention to demographics. Someone needs to be in the media and make demographics an interesting topic. It is so much more than numbers. Last night we didn’t end until 10. I’ll miss the next meeting as I will hopefully be in Tahiti.

I was pleased to see that the Dept. of Interior is working hard to get rid of geographic terms that are derogatory terms. There are almost 700 place designations that are derogatory to various cultures. The most common is the term ‘squ*w’, which refers to female genitalia. We all remember the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squ*w Valley, CA. It will soon be known as ‘Palisades Tahoe’. Lots more will be changing too. About time.

Today is my birthday. I’ll be having lunch with some friends and enjoying the day. No candles as it would definitely be a fire hazard.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

If Apple made a car what would be missing?

Windows

Trivia

Q: Of What Tribe Was Boadicea the Head?

 

Q: In Which City Was John F Kennedy Assassinated?

 

Q: Of which ship was Miles Standish captain?

Q: Which US state in 1907 was the last to declare Christmas a legal holiday?

 

 

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: Iceni: in ancient Britain, a tribe that occupied the territory of present-day Norfolk and Suffolk and, under its queen Boudicca (Boadicea), revolted against Roman rule.

Answer 2: Dallas

Answer 3: The Mayflower

Answer4: Oklahoma

 

Historical Events

W                 1066 – Westminster Abbey opened

W                 1525 – Aztec king Cuauhtémoc was executed on the order of conquistador Hernán Cortés.

W                 1784 – John Wesley chartered the first Methodist Church in the United States.

W                 1844 – The USS Princeton exploded while demonstrating a gun, killing five people, and injuring many more.

W                 1854 – The Republican Party was organized in Ripon, WI. It was primarily anti-slavery people.

W                 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) was incorporated in New York, as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.

W                 1935 – Wallace Carothers discovered Nylon while working at DuPont.

W                 1947 – The 228 Incident in Taiwan resulted in protests and rioting. Between 10,000 and 20,000 people were killed.

W                 1953 – Cambridge University scientists James D. Watson and Frances H.C. Crick announced that they had found the double-helix structure of DNA, the molecule containing human genes.

W                 1983 – CBS sitcom M*A*S*H ended after 11 seasons, airing a special two-and-a-half-hour episode watched by 77% of the television viewing audience.

W                 2002 – Sotheby’s auction house announced that Peter Paul Reubens was the creator of the painting The Massacre of the Innocents, not Jan van den Hoecke as previously believed.

W                 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigned as the pope of the Catholic Church – the first pope to do so since 1415.

Birthdays Today

@93 – Linus Carl Pauling, American chemist and biochemist (d. 1994)

@90 – Gavin MacLeod, American actor (d. 2021)

@81 – Milton Caniff, American cartoonist [Steve Canyon] (d. 1988)

74 – Bernadette Peters, American actress, singer

69 – Paul Krugman, American economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

67 – Gilbert Gottfried, American comedian and actor

@65 – Charles ‘Bubba’ Smith, American football player and actor (d. 2011; CTE)

65 – John Turturro, American actor

@62 – Zero Mostel, American actor and comedian (d. 1977; aneurysm)

61 – Rae Dawn Chong, Canadian-American actress

46 – Ali Larter, American actress

45 – Jason Aldean, American singer-songwriter

@41 – Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel, American gangster (d. 1947; shot)