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Week 10 Day: 61  Ave. sky cover: 5% \ Visibility: 10 miles Flagstaff Today 52° \210°  

Wind: 9mph \ Gusts: 13mph

High risk of fire \ Nearest active fire: 346mi \ nearest Lightning: 1763mi

Mar Averages for Flagstaff: 53° \ 23°  (6 days of moisture)

Today’s Quote

Monthly Observations

Child Life Month Link
Clap 4 Health Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month
Credit Education Month
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month Link
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Developmental Disabillities Awareness Month  Link
Employee Spirit Month
Endometriosis Month Link
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month Link

Weekly Observations

 

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
2-4/16	Lent

 

Daily Observations

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Blue sky and a nice day. I headed out to get my vehicle washed after the last storm. Before leaving I got my plane tickets to Denver for the Tahiti trip. Plane tickets aren’t as cheap as they used to be.  I’ll discover the same when I make my hotel reservations.

Over half a million Ukrainians have fled the country. Russian tanks are breaking down and being left on the highway.  Also, dead Russian soldiers are being left of the highways. Ukraine also has very good medical schools. Many of the students are foreigners who are there on student-visas to become medical personnel. Those foreigners are also leaving but finding there is no where to go to continue their education. They can’t get scholarships and spent all their money to get out, losing their tuition when they fled.

Several in Congress are saying the US needs to set up a no-fly zone in and around Ukraine. These people are not correct. If the US sets up a no-fly zone, then the US would have to enforce it…i.e. shoot down planes that enter the space…shoot down Russian Planes. That would certainly lead to all out war…WWIII. No thanks.

We are so close to a full scaled war already.  Peace talks have to happen. Shell announced on Monday that it will cut ties with the Russian state-owned energy giant Gazprom. The move follows a similar decision from BP, which on Sunday said it will sell its shares in Russian-state firm Rosneft.

Favorite Memes

 

A bit of Humor

When is the moon the heaviest?

When it's full!

Trivia

Q: What is the 'perfect score' in a game of Ten Pin Bowling?

 

 

Q: With which sport would you have associated Jocky Wilson?

 

Q: With what did cricketer Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi frequently play within his hands?

 

Q: What 3 Letter Word It The Name Given To A Replayed Point In Tennis?

 

ANSWERS:

Answer 1: 300

Answer 2: Darts

Answer 3: A glass eye

Answer 4: Let

Historical Events

Ø    1657 – The Great Fire of Meireki in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000 deaths and lasted three days 1807 – The US Congress passed an act to “prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the United States… from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.”

Ø    1863 – The US Congress authorized a track width of 4-feet, 8-1/2 inches as the standard for the Union Pacific Railroad, which became the standard width for most of the world.

Ø    1925 – Highway numbers were introduced in the United States. East/West are even numbered, North/South are odd-numbered

Ø    1943 – The Battle of Bismarck, Ally victory in South Pacific

Ø    1933 – King Kong (film) opened at New York’s Radio City Music Hall.

Ø    1962 – Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single basketball game against the New York Knicks. Final score: 169-147, at the Hershey Arena. Although there were only about 6,000 tickets sold, guesstimates are that almost 50% of male sports fans born in the Philadelphia area between 1925 and 1958 claim to have been at the event.

Ø    1969 – The Concorde SST Supersonic jet aircraft, prototype 001, made its first flight from Toulouse airport in France.

Ø    1978 – Charlie Chaplin’s body was stolen from a cemetery in the Swiss village of Corsier-sur-Vevey, near Lausanne, Switzerland. The grave robbers (and the re-buried body) were found a few weeks later.

Ø    1983 – Compact discs and players are released for the first time in the United States and other markets. (They had previously been available only in Japan.)

Ø    1990 – Nelson Mandela was elected deputy President of the African National Congress.

Ø    2009 – Late Night with Jimmy Fallon premiered on NBC.

Birthdays Today

91 – Mikhail Gorbachev, Russian lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate

@87 – Dr. Seuss [Theodor Geisel], American children’s book writer, poet, illustrator (d. 1991)

@70 – Sam Houston, 1st President of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863)

@69 – Desi Arnaz [Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III], Cuban-American actor, singer, and producer (d. 1986; lung cancer)

69 – Russ Feingold, American lawyer and politician

60 – Jon Bon Jovi, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor

54 – Daniel Craig, English actor

51 – Method Man, American rapper, record producer

42 – Rebel Wilson, Australian actress

@32 – Karen Carpenter, American singer (d. 1983; anorexia)