9 Mar

9 March 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 10 Day 68 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 19 miles Flagstaff Today 53° \18°  Wind 7mph \ Gusts 16mph 
Air Quality: 9 \ Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 251mi \ Nearest Lightning 636mi
Mar. Averages for Flagstaff: 51° \ 23° \6 Days of moisture

Sunshine

Weekly Observations

  22-4/8
  Lent
  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
5-11
   National Consumer Protection Week  Link 
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Procrastination Week  
National Schools Social Work Week   
Celebrate Your Name Week
National Procrastination Week  
National Schools Social Work Week   Link 
National Words Matter Week
No More Week 
National Words Matter Week
No More Week  Link
Read an E-Book Week  Link  
Save Your Vision Week  
Save Your Vision Week  Link  
Termite Awareness Week
Termite Awareness Week
  5-12
  Women in Construction Week:   Link 
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
Words Matter Week
6-10
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
Words Matter Week
6-10
  National School Breakfast Week

Daily Observations

Barbie Day

Crabmeat Day

Get Over It Day Link

Joe Franklin Day

Meatball Day

Nametag Day Link  

National Get Over It Day

National Urban Educator Day  Link

Nutrition and Dietetics Technician, Registered Day

Panic Day

World Kidney Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Another day of melting snow. The snow on the trees is gone. Basically only the man-made piles from clearing the sidewalks and roads remain. Some of those berms are still 4+ feet high.

I was sad to hear of the passing of Peterson Zah, first Navajo Nation President, at 85. All the previous elected leader in modern times had been Chairman, not President. Mr. Zah, the uncle of a good friend, took over after some turbulent times and was able to keep the Navajo Nation together. Flags are flying at half-mast throughout the Navajo Nation.

I continue to be perplexed by Tucker Carlson. He continues his craziness on Fox, even after many emails have been released that show he is merely an actor, playing the role of a journalist. I guess it is true: You can lead a man to knowledge, but you can’t make him think.  

Enjoy…

Facts…

Barber’s Pole

Few symbols are more recognizable than a barber’s pole. This spinning red-and-white cylinder is hard to miss, and serves as a shining beacon for a place to get a haircut. Historically, however, it also signified a spot where people could have medical procedures done.

The barber’s pole reflects a time when barbers not only cut hair, but performed medical operations such as bloodletting. Prior to the barber pole, barbers would place bowls of blood in their window to advertise their bloodletting capabilities, though that act was prohibited by a 1307 law in London. Hence, the barber’s pole was born, and it has remained a popular symbol ever since.

The color red represents the blood, whereas the white reflects the bandages used to stop the bleeding. In America, you’ll notice that barber poles also have the color blue in addition to the traditional red and white found throughout Europe. One theory is that the blue represents the veins that were cut during bloodletting; another idea is that the addition of blue was simply a patriotic statement. 

Beauty in our 50 states…

 40. Connecticut

Poor Connecticut (not literally, of course). Not only will most New Englanders disavow it for its close ties to New York—"half the state is Yankees country!"—but it also came out as the runt among the region's hill-and-valley idyll. Most of the state is flat, and although it's got some quaint towns along the coast, and comely streams further inland towards the Berkshires, nondescript suburbs and urbanized areas are the norm. Plus, at this point in its march towards the ocean, even the mighty Connecticut River has lost some steam (and picked up flotsam in Hartford and Springfield).

Historical Events

1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte married his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1959 – The Barbie doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.

Birthdays Today

@88 – Mickey Spillane, American crime novelist (d. 2006)
@86 – Mickey Gilley, American singer-songwriter, pianist (d. 2022)
“If you have good food, people will come to your restaurant.”– Mickey Gilley
@79 – Marty Ingels, American actor, comedian (d. 2015; stroke)
78 – Robin Trower, English rock guitarist and vocalist (Procol Harum)
75 – Jeffrey Osborne, American singer and drummer
65 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
@64 – Bobby Fischer, American chess player (d. 2008; kidney failure)
@54 – Raul Julia, Puerto Rican-American actor (d. 1994; stroke)
52 – Emmanuel Lewis, American actor (Webster)
“I like projects in which I can really act and not be me all the time.”– Emmanuel Lewis
37 – Brittany Snow, American actress
“Sometimes the characters I find the most compelling are in independent movies. With independent scripts, people can take more challenges.”– Brittany Snow
@34 – Yuri Gagarin, cosmonaut, 1^st human in outer space
30 – Suga [Min Yoon-gi], South Korean artist (BTS)