June 30

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 27 Day: 181 \ Ave. Sky Cover: 30% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 84° \55° 
Wind: 5mph \ Gusts: 15mph  Air Quality: Moderate
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 12mi \ Nearest Lightning: 1mi
June Averages for Flagstaff: 80° \ 43° (1 day of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

Thru Sep.5 National Marina Days (From Memorial Day to Labor Day)  Link

17-30   National Little League Week: Link

26-7/2  Windjammer Days Link

27 -7/4 National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness

27-7/3   National Tire Safety Week  Link

Daily Observations

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Yeah…the monsoon returned for the last day of June. Lots of dark clouds, just awaiting the moisture. Moisture arrived about 1:00pm. Cooled things off quickly. It kept coming down hard, a shelter in place flood alert has been issued for burn areas.

I had a very busy morning. I needed an ultra-sound blood draw, then it was time for my teeth to get cleaned. My dentist became implant qualified a few months ago. I need two implants, which may be cheaper than a bridge. I’ll find out soon.

The US Forest Service is hard to understand. After our second fire, they closed the forest. Now after some rain, they have opened the forest again. To say that the locals are very upset is a gigantic understatement. I sure hope the Forest Service knows what it is doing.

Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was found guilty of assisting Jeffery Epstein find underage girls for his deviance.

Trafficking is horrific from the get-go. Now there were 51 dead immigrants in an 18-wheeler in Texas. They had horrible deaths from overheating. Trafficking needs to be addressed by Congress yesterday. This has been going on way too long. The border is one hot-spot, the Tribal lands is another. Same promises, same results. It seems to me that if the right is really pro-life, they would be leading the charge to stop these unnecessary events.

The Secret Service is denying the beast incident with Trump. Hmmm

Favorite Memes

Earth’s Secrets

The First Ozone Hole Is Still Healing

Scientists discovered the first hole in the ozone layer, located directly above Antarctica, in 1985. The Montreal Protocol of 1987 was the first plan approved by every country in the United Nations, and focused on the restriction of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs that emitted ozone-destroying chlorines).

Trivia

Vitamin D is unusual because it is the only vitamin that can be synthesized in the body. Sunlight is the main source of Vitamin D, though sunscreen lotions with high SPF can prevent vitamin D formation. Vitamin D is also the only vitamin that is a hormone.

Insects such as termites and ants provide 10 percent of the protein consumed worldwide. Where insects are an integral part of a diet, they contribute as much as 40 percent of protein.   

Historical Events

 Ë 1831 – A patent for a platform scale was issued to brothers Erastus and Thaddeus S. Fairbanks of St. Johnsbury, Vermont.
Ë 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate (Huxley-Wilberforce debate or the Wilberforce-Huxley debate) at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History took place.
Ë 1864 – President Abraham Lincoln granted Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.
Ë 1886 – The United States Division of Forestry was recognized and established by an Act of Congress
Ë 1894 – The Tower Bridge across the River Thames in London was officially opened.
Ë 1905 – Albert Einstein sends the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity, for publication in Annalen der Physik.
Ë 1906 – The United States Congress passes the Meat Inspection Act and Pure Food and Drug Act.
Ë 1921 – President Warren G. Harding appointed former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the United States.
Ë 1908 – The Tunguska Event happened near Lake Baikal, Russia. An explosion near a sparsely populated forest flattened 80 million trees over an 830 square mile area and eyewitness reports suggest that at least three people may have died as a result. The Podkamennaya Tunguska River is an explosive, natural phenomenon that spans across Eastern Siberia.
Ë 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler’s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, took place.
Ë 1936 – Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind was published.
Ë 1966 – The National Organization for Women (NOW) was founded.
Ë 1987 – Iran-Contra hearings aired during daytime television, pre-empting most programming.
Ë 2019 – Donald Trump became the first sitting American President to visit the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea).

Birthdays Today

@92 – Lena Horne, American singer (d. 2010)
66 – David Alan Grier, American comedic actor
63 – Vincent D’Onofrio, American character actor
@62 – Harry Blackstone Jr., American magician, author (d. 1997; cancer)
56 – Mike Tyson, American boxer
37 – Michael Phelps, swimmer