12 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 38 Day 255 \ Ave. Sky Cover 45% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 80° \47° 
Wind 7mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality Fair
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 258mi \ Nearest Lightning 5mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

11-17
Be A Mench Week
Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link
International Housekeepers Week Link
National Assisted Living Week
National Security Officer Appreciation Week
National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link

12-17  
Line Dance Week

12-18  
National Chef Appreciation Week Link  
National NeoNatal Nurses Week Link

Daily Observations

Chocolate Milkshake Day
International Day for South-South Cooperation Link
National Boss/Employee Exchange Day 
National Day of Encouragement  Link
National Just One Human Family Day  Link
National Police Woman's Day  Link   Link
Report Medicare Fraud Day  Link
Video Games Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

It looks like the monsoon returned. Expecting more moisture after looking at the clouds.

Like most Americans, I’m remembering 9-11. I was working at Tuba that day. Many don’t realize what we had to do. After hearing scattered reports, we knew that the twin towers had been hit. About 10:30 the supervisors were called to the principal’s office. At that point we were told the school was shutting down, due to the attack. Our school had over 900 students with about 250 living in the dorms. Most parents did not have phones, and many of the dorm students lived with no running water or electricity. Most parents would not be at home at this time of day. They might be herding sheep; they might have come to town for supplies. For those parents who lived in town, they would not be home either…they might be at work or they too might be out of town, helping relatives or shopping. The school can’t just ‘dump’ the kids off if no one is home. There were 9 bus routes, and the school couldn’t just ‘dump’ the students off at the bus stop.  Thanks to dedicated bus drivers and dorm staff, all the students were home by 4pm, all the other staff were sent home about noon. All the BIA schools closed because the US government had been attacked and no one knew who else might be attacked. We returned to work the next day and continued our responsibilities to the children and community. A day I will never forget.

Today is also my mom’s birthday. She was born in 1919. She lived to 89 years old. She is still missed.

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Random trivia…

  Missing Persons

Between 1,800 and 2,000 Americans are reported missing every day. This includes both children and adults. But many of those reports are later cancelled.

When a child goes missing, the first 3 hours are the most crucial in finding the child safely. Approximately 76 percent of abducted children who are murdered are dead within three hours of the abduction.

Unfortunately, it can take over 2 hours to get information about a missing child from a panicked parent.

There are as many as 100,000 active missing persons cases in the U.S. at any given time.

Myth Buster

Albert Einstein was... the father of the atomic bomb

This is the most common myth surrounding the charismatic genius. While Albert Einstein did contribute, somewhat in spite of himself, to the origins of the nuclear bomb, the American secret service eventually dismissed him from the project. A few years earlier, in 1933, physicist Leo Szilard had shared with him his work on a chain reaction capable of causing spectacular explosions, a principle based on Einstein’s own research into the interchangeability of energy and mass. Worried that this discovery would end up in the hands of the Nazis, the two scientists then alerted President Roosevelt. Physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer, considered the true father of the atomic bomb, directed the Manhattan Project from 1942 to 1945.

Historical Events

1910 – Alice Stebbins Wells was hired as America’s 1st actual female police officer, in Los Angeles.

1940 – Cave paintings are discovered in Lascaux, France.

1952 – The Flatwoods Monster was described by several children in Flatwoods, West Virginia. Their mother, Kathleen May also reported seeing a ten-foot creature.

1954 – Lassie premiered on CBS

1959 – The Soviet Union’s Lunik 2 was launched, (purposefully) crash-landing on the moon two days later.

1962 – President Kennedy delivered his “We Choose to go to the Moon” speech at Rice University.

1970 – LSD advocate, Dr. Timothy Leary, escaped from a California prison and fled to Algeria.

1970 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 16 was launched – it landed on the moon, scooped up 101 grams of the lunar surface, and returned to Earth.

1984 – Dwight Gooden set the MLB record for strikeouts in a season by a rookie with 276, previously set by Herb Score with 246 in 1954.

1992- NBC canceled all of their Saturday morning cartoons and opted to air Saved By The Bell, California Dreams, NBA Inside Stuff, Name Your Adventure, and a weekend version of Today. It marked the end of all children’s programming entirely on the network.

2012 – Apple unveiled the iPhone 5 and iOS 6.

Birthdays Today

@83 – Maurice Chevalier, French actor, singer and dancer (d. 1972)
“If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.”– Maurice Chevalier
82 – Linda Gray, American actress
@81 – George Jones, country singer (d. 2013)
@66 – Jesse Owens, American sprinter, long jumper, Gold Medalist (d. 1980; cancer)
@58 – Barry White, American singer-songwriter (d. 2003; stroke)
“We forget that this music, music made by my brothers and sisters, is still a baby. It’s just beginning. When I think of the possibilities, it makes me smile.”-Barry White
55 – Rachel Ward, English-Australian actress
55 – Louis C.K. [Louis Alfred Székely], American comedian and actor
“‘I’m bored is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘Im bored’.” Louis C. K.
@40 – Paul Walker, American actor (d. 2013; car crash)
“Remember that no matter how cool you think you may be, you are not cool enough to look down on anyone…”– Paul Walker
44 – Ruben Studdard, American R&B and gospel singer
41 – Jennifer Hudson, American singer
“We all have the power to choose how we are going to handle every situation we are faced with throughout our lives. We are in control of the decision we make whether it’s about work, relationships, parenting, or our health.”– Jennifer Hudson

 

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