Jul 1

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 27 Day 182 \ Ave. Sky Cover 55% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 69° \54° 
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 9mph  Air Quality
Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 12mi \ Nearest Lightning 16mi
Jul Averages for Flagstaff: 82° \ 51° (8 days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote 

Monthly Observations

July in Navajo: Ya’iishjaashtsoh, means Planting of the Late Crops

Air-Conditioning Appreciation Days (7/3 to 8/15)  Link
Alopecia Month for Women
Bereaved Parents Awareness Month
Bikini Month  Link
Bioterrorism/Disaster Education & Awareness Month
Cell Phone Courtesy Month  Link
Dog Days (7/3 to 8/11)   Link
Eye Injury Prevention Month Link 
Family Golf Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Fragile X Awareness Month Link
Fuel Safety Month  Link

Weekly Observations

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

26-7/2  Windjammer Days Link

27 -7/4 National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness

27-7/3   National Tire Safety Week  Link

1-3  Roswell UFO Days Link

1-4 Beer Pong Days  Link

1-7 National Independent Living Week National Unassisted Homebirth Week

1-24 Tour de France  Link

Daily Observations

Jul 1…
American Zoo Day
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms Day
Canada Day
Devotion to Duty Day
Drug Enforcement Administration Day
Early Bird Day
Estee Lauder Day
International Chicken Wing Day
Medicare's Birthday
National Creative Ice Cream Flavor Day
National Gingersnap Day
National Postal Workers Day /U.S. Postage Stamp Day
Second Half of the New Year Day
National GSA Employee Day
Resolution Renewal Day
Slurpee Day or 7-11's Birthday-11 
U.S. Postage Stamp Day
Zip Code Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

The monsoon continues to bring rain. Sadly, it is also bringing some flooding in the burn scars. One resident said that he tried to get flood insurance in early May but was told he was not in a flood prone area, so couldn’t be insured. He tried again when the fires started. He was told the same thing. Now he has a couple of inches of water in his home and he must pay the whole bill.

The Supreme Court has ruled that Biden can end the ‘stay in Mexico’ status of asylum seekers.

Then they overruled the EPA is setting carbon emission standards…which ultimately could affect many other Agency’s directives. Oops.

Back in the day, the Supreme Court grew so there would be one judge for each circuit district. That hasn’t happened since FDR. Now there are 11 circuits, so maybe it is time to have 11 court justices.

Favorite Memes

Earth’s Secrets

There Are a Billion Microbes in a Teaspoon of Soil

"The number of microbes in a teaspoon of soil is estimated to be roughly equivalent to the number of humans currently living in Africa (one billion)," biologist Dianne Newman of Caltech tells Popular Mechanics.

Trivia

In the United States, it is estimated that every adult unconsciously consumes one pound of insects each year due to garden produce, poor restaurant and home hygiene, and commercial foods for which the USDA allows a certain amount of insect fragments. Peanut butter, for example, is allowed to have 30 insect fragments per 100 grams.   

Historical Events

          1847 – The first US postage stamps were issued (Ben Franklin 5 cents & George Washington 10 cents)
          1848 – The first publication of a photograph in a newspaper, in L’illustraion Journel Universel
          1862 – The Internal Revenue Service was established
          1874 – The Philadelphia ‘America’s Oldest’ Zoo opened
          1874 – The Sholes and Glidden typewriter, the first commercially successful typewriter, went on sale.
          1898 – The Battle of San Juan Hill was fought in Santiago de Cuba. (Spanish-American War)
          1903 – The first Tour de France bicycle race began.
          1916 WWI – The Battle of Somme began, lasting until November 13
          1941 – The first TV commercial aired. Bulova Watches paid for the 10-second spot, shown before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies at Ebbits Field.
          1941 – NBC became broadcasting from the Empire State Building, NYC
          1963 – The US Zip (Zone Improvement Plan) Codes were inaugurated
          1968 – Medicare went to effect (USA)
             1971 – The Post Office Department (1792 – 1971) became the United States Postal Service
             1972 – The first Gay Pride march in England took place.
             2007 – Smoking in England was banned in all public indoor spaces.

Birthdays Today

@104 – Olivia de Havilland, British-American actress (d. 2020)
@95 – Estée Lauder [Josephine Esther Mentzer], co-founded Estée Lauder Companies (d. 2004)
88 – Jamie Farr, American actor
81 – Twyla Tharp, American dancer and choreographer
@80 – Thomas Green Clemson, founded Clemson University (d. 1888)
77 – Debbie Harry, American singer-songwriter, actress
@74 – Karen Black, American actress (d. 2013; cancer)
72 – David Duke, American white supremacist
70 – Dan Aykroyd, Canadian actor, screenwriter
54 – Pamela Anderson, Canadian-American model and actress
@36 – Diana, Princess of Wales (d. 1997; auto accident)

 

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