7 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 37 Day 250 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 86° \51° 
Wind 5mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality Moderate
Low Moderate High Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 57mi \ Nearest Lightning 923mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote 

Monthly Observations

Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month  Link
Update Your Resume Month
Whole Grains Month
Wild Rice Month Link
Women's Friendship Month
World Alzheimer's Month
World Beach Month
World Candle Month Link
World Speak Out Month
Youth Leadership Month
National Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15-October 15)

Weekly Observations

Thru 9/11
US Open Tennis Championships

1-7
International Enthusiasm Week
National Nutrition Week (UNICEF-India) Link
Self-University Week Link

1-10 
Substitute Teacher Appreciation Week

2-6 
Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over Link

3-11  Link
International Air Ambulance Week

4-10 
Suicide Prevention Week
National Waffle Week

5-9 
National Payroll Week

6-10 
Play Days

7-10  
Minimally Invasive Surgery Week  Link

Daily Observations

Beer Lover’s Day
Google Commemoration (Founded) Day
Grandma Moses Day
Grateful Patient Day  Link
Napoleon Day
International Day of Clean Air For Blue Skies
National Attention Deficit Disorder Awareness Day Link
"Neither Snow nor Rain" Day
Salami Day  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

High Pressure continues…really nice day.

Liz Truss in the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Her mentor was Margaret Thatcher. She has a big job ahead.

A Special Master was approved by the judge. This will slow down investigations but will not stop them. DOJ may appeal the decision to the Circuit Court.

The horrific stabbing in Canada was on one of the Cree Reserves. So tragic.

While I didn’t test drive any electric vehicles, I did read up on them before buying my new ride. Here are some of the things that had me thinking that electric was not for me:

·        The current electrical grid is not ready to handle that many electric cars,

·        Right now, the battery components of rare metals come from the Congo…thanks to mining by China,

·        Vehicles must sit at a charging station for more than 4 hours to fully charge,

·        Then the charge may last for about 6 driving hours…less on the highway,

·        The current cost of the vehicle and the replacement cost for a battery (around $2K),

·        There are no studies to show how the expansion of the grid, or the depletion of the rare metals needed will affect the environment.

I know technology will change and these issues may be overcome…they just aren’t there yet.

I went grocery shopping this morning. All went well, but an idiot backing out of a parking space came within inches of my back bumper. Even honking didn’t stop them. I pulled back into my space and prevented the accident. The look on the people watching showed me I was in the right. Back-up camera sure helped.

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Moon Facts…

  Hitler Lived on a Nazi Lunar Base

We all know the history. In April 1945, as the Soviets marched through Berlin, Hitler and his wife Eva Braun were in their underground bunker when they made the decision to... take a rocket ship to the moon to live out the rest of their days on a Nazi lunar base.

Of course, that didn’t happen. Hitler, in fact, took cyanide and a bullet to the temple. But there’s a conspiracy theory that the Nazis set up a base on the moon as early as 1942. As the story goes, when it became clear that the Nazis were going to lose the world war, they simply packed up and left for another one. Their transport was a flying saucer, very much like the one that supposedly crashed in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

The Nazis, apparently, also went to Mars.

Myth Buster

Santa Claus is a Coca-Cola invention

This notion came from a 1930s advertising campaign featuring a chubby, bearded Santa Claus, dressed in red and white and placing gifts under a tree just before enjoying a bottle of the famous soda. Coca-Cola was only reinforcing the public’s imagination. The idea of Santa Claus, sleigh and reindeer included, actually took shape in an 1822 poem by Clement Clarke Moore. Illustrator Thomas Nast then decided to draw Santa Claus in colorful clothes and have him travel from a cold and distant land. Coca-Cola is responsible, however, for the legendary figure’s now iconic red clothing.

Historical Events

1251 BC – A solar eclipse marked the birth of the legendary man-god Hercules.

1895 – The first game of rugby league football was played, in England.

1901 – The Boxer Rebellion in the Qing dynasty (China) officially ended with the signing of the Boxer Protocol.

1923 – Interpol was founded in Vienna.

1928 – Museum of Northern Arizona opened in Flagstaff.

1940 – Germany’s Blitz air attacks began in London, England.

1963 – The Pro Football Hall of Fame opened in Canton, Ohio.

1979 – The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network (ESPN) debuted.

1986 – Desmond Tutu became the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

1996 – Tupac Shakur was shot and killed at an intersection in Las Vegas.

1998 – Google was founded by Stanford University students Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

2008 – True Blood premiered on HBO

Birthdays Today

@101 – Grandma Moses [Anna Mary Robertson Moses], American painter (d. 1961)
“I look out the window sometimes to seek the color of the shadows and the different greens in the trees, but when I get ready to paint I just close my eyes and imagine a scene.”
– Grandma Moses
@94 – Elia Kazan, Greek-American actor, director, producer, screenwriter (d. 2003)
“I’ve come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one’s capacity – or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. The effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.”Elia Kazan
@83 – David Packard, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (d. 1996)
@61 – Peter Lawford, English-American actor (d. 1984; cardiac arrest)
@22 – Buddy Holly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1959)
79 – Gloria Gaynor, American singer
“Well, we all know that self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.”– Gloria Gaynor
@69 – Elizabeth I of England (d. 1603)
“Grief never ends, but it changes. It is a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness nor a lack of faith: it is the price of love.”– Elizabeth I
68 – Corbin Bernsen, American actor
“If we stop exploring space, we’re going to lose the same part of us that found vaccines and penicillin, the part that searches for cures to cancer and AIDS.”– Corbin Bernsen
55 – Leslie Jones, comedian (SNL)
35 – Evan Rachel Wood, American actress
29 – Taylor Gray, American actor

 

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