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Dec. 13, 2019 Week: 50 Day: 347
86004: H 54° \ L 27° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Nearest lightning:
1390mi
Nearest active fire:
263mi.
Wind: 9mph\Gusts: 18mph Visibility:
10 mi
Record High: 67°[2010] Record Low: -19°[1931]
Dec. Averages: 44°\17° (5 days with moisture)
Today’s Quote
“Listen,
or your tongue will make you deaf.”
~ Native American Proverb
Random Tidbits
Chicago is sinking at
a similar rate to Venice
You may have heard
that Venice is sinking, but so is Chicago - and it's going down just as
quickly. According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the
Illinois city is getting one to two millimeters lower every year (that's four
to eight inches every century). For comparison, Venice is sinking at a rate of
two millimeters per year. The phenomenon is due to a glacial melt that happened
around 10,000 years ago. It led to some areas rising after the weight of the
ice was gone (consider what would happen if you squeezed one end of a tube of
toothpaste; the other end would pop up). Now, the ground is settling again,
which means it's sinking back down.
Observances This Week
3-24
10-17
Human
Rights Week
Observances for Today
My Rambling Thoughts
Enjoy your Friday the
13th.
A nice sunny day. Took
as nice walk after it warmed up, then decided to stay around home today.
Our only local indoor
mall is really trying to keep people coming to their businesses. They are
building 2 pads in the huge parking lot…one for a Starbucks, one for Chick-fil-A.
Now they are dealing with the huge empty former Sears. Sounds like Hobby Lobby
will be taking up some of it, with other stores to be announced in the future.
Good for them.
More information is
slowly coming out about 2 separate exposure deaths on the streets of Flagstaff,
during our last snowstorm over a week ago. Both were men, one 68 and one 25.
Both have Native last names. Both were found in snowbanks, near buildings, in
alleys. This is so sad. It happens every winter. There are several shelters,
one which takes anybody, others have restrictions and some require Church
services in order to eat and another in order to sleep. It is beginning to look
like the city shelter is not getting out the word to the street that it accepts
everybody during cold spells. Our town has a far from a stellar reputation for
the way Natives are treated either as residents or visitors. It is time for the
city to step up and correct this history.
I went to the dentist
to complete the root canal yesterday. He really tried, but after about 30
minutes of working said he could not salvage the tooth. So, in January he will
complete the work and order a bridge. Guess I’m not too young for a bridge
after all. I could get an implant but that would be $4k and I have better
things to do than spend that much on one tooth.HaHa.
Today’s Puzzle
Answer at the bottom of this page
How many 2-cent stamps do you need
to make a dozen?
Historical Events
115 (Earthquake)
Antioch, Byzantine Empire (Turkey)
1545 - The Council of
Trent began; it was the planning of responding to the Protestant Movement, by
the Catholic Church.
1636 - The
Massachusetts Bay Colony organized militia regiments to defend the colony
against the Pequot Indians. It is considered the founding of the United States
National Guard.
1769 - Dartmouth
College was founded by Reverend Eleazar Wheelock.
1920 - League of
nations established the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
1928 - The clip-on tie
was invented in Clinton, Iowa
1928 - George
Gershwin's "An American In Paris" premiered in Carnegie Hall, with
Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Philharmonic.
1947 - Maine Turnpike
(I-95) opened.
1962 - Relay I, the
first U.S. communications satellite was launched.
1964 In El Paso, Texas, LBJ & Mexican
President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz set off an explosion diverting Rio Grande, to
reshape US-Mexico border
1986 - #1 Hit: Bruce Hornsby & the
Range - The Way It Is
1990 South African President F. W. de
Klerk meets with Nelson Mandela to talk of end of apartheid
1996 Kofi Annan is elected
Secretary-General of the United Nations
1996 - Jerry Maguire,
Mars Attacks! were released in theaters.
2000 - Al Gore
conceded the presidential election to George W. Bush. A later investigation,
counting the pivital Florida votes, indicated that Bush did win the election,
by a few hundred votes.
2003 - #1 Hit: Outkast - Hey Ya!
2003 - Saddam Hussein
was captured near his hometown of Tikrit, Iraq.
2009 - #1 Hit: Beyonce - Single Ladies (Put
a Ring on It)
2017 Democratic
Republic of Congo jails for life 11 militiamen for raping 40 children,
including a local MP
2018 Apple announces
new $1 billion campus in Austin, Texas and expansion in other US cities
Birthdays Today
94 - Dick Van Dyke,
American actor, singer, and dancer
90 - Christopher
Plummer, Canadian actor
78 - John Davidson,
American actor and game show host
@77 - Richard D.
Zanuck, American film producer
(died in 2012; heart attack)
71 - Jeff 'Skunk'
Baxter, American guitarist, (Steely Dan)
71 - Ted Nugent,
American singer-songwriter
69 - Wendy Malick,
American actress
65 - Steve Forbert,
American singer-songwriter
@63 - Mary Todd
Lincoln, 16th First Lady
(died in 1882; stroke)
52 - Jamie Foxx,
American actor and comedian
30 - Taylor Swift,
American singer-songwriter
Puzzle answer:
It takes 12 of anything to make a dozen.
