17 Sep

 

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 38 Day 260 \ Ave. Sky Cover 10% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 74° \45° 
Wind 4mph \ Gusts 10mph  Air Quality
Moderate Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 258mi \ Nearest Lightning 410mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

11-17 Be A Mench Week Direct Support Professional Recognition Week Link International Housekeepers Week Link National Assisted Living Week National Security Officer Appreciation Week National Truck Driver Appreciation Week Link

12-17   Line Dance Week

12-18   National Chef Appreciation Week Link   National NeoNatal Nurses Week Link

14-18 National Championship Air Races

15-21  National Medicare Education Week Link

15-18  Hummingbird Celebration Link

14-18   National Guitar Flat-Picking Days Link

16-18  Clean Up The World Weekend  Link

16-25 National Ballroom Dance Week  Link

17-23 Constitution Week Farm Animal Awareness Week

Daily Observations

Apple Dumpling Day
Batman Day Link 
Big Whopper Liar Day 
Citizenship Day
Constitution Day Link
International Coastal Cleanup Day 
International Country Music Day Link
International Eat An Apple Day  
International Red Panda Day  
Locate An Old Friend Day  
National Clean Up Day  Link 
National Dance Day Link 
National Gymnastics Day Link  
National Monte Cristo Day Link
National Professional House Cleaners Day  Link
National Seat-check Saturday  
National Singles' Day  Link 
National Table Shuffleboard Day
Puppy Mill Awareness Day    Link
Responsible Dog Ownership Day Link
Time's Up Day
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day
World Patient Safety Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Nice fall day. Nights are getting much cooler.

Immigration debate continues. It has become a political football that no one can score with. Gov. DeSantis (FL) has paid for illegal immigrants from Venezuela to be flown from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard. I understand his point…border states are having a hard time with the flow of illegals so he thinks sending them to sanctuary cities will open the eyes of many. Looking at a map, one quickly realizes that Florida is not a border state. It seems odd that FL state funds should be used to move Venezuelans from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard with no plans as to what happens next is very close to human trafficking with DeSantis nothing more than a coyote. Those seeking asylum in the US are human beings and should be treated with dignity. Time is well passed to reform our immigration policies. Congress: DO YOUR JOB!

Our discussion group meets Saturday. We are discussing ‘Outer Space’ and 3 of our members are amateur astronomers…that should be a great discussion.

Favorite Memes

Random trivia…

Volcanoes

Scientists have described the giant pool of magma sitting just under surface of Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming as a super volcano.

Exactly how giant this super volcano is has been the subject of much speculation until recently.

A team from the University of Utah have told the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting in San Francisco that Yellowstone's magma chamber is 2.5 times larger than previously thought.

It is an underground cavern that measures some 55 miles by 20 miles and runs between 3 and 9 miles below the earth.

If it blows it would wipe out America - and have enormous impacts on the rest of the world.

The term "volcano" is from the Latin Volcanus or Vulcan, the Roman god of fire. The Romans first used the term to describe Mt. Etna, a volcanic mountain they believed was the forge of Vulcan.

The myth of the lost city of Atlantis sinking beneath the waves may be based on the Greek island of Santorini, of which portions collapsed into the sea after a large volcanic eruption during the Bronze Age.

The most dangerous volcano today is Popocatepetl, nicknamed El Popo, which is just 33 miles from Mexico City. El Popo is still active, sending thousands of tons of gas and ash into the air each year.

Myth Buster

Droit du seigneur

According to legend, lords had the right to deflower their peasants’ wives on the women’s wedding night. While history reports numerous examples of sexual violence on the part of feudal lords during the Middle Ages, the droit du seigneur, as previously described, has never been proven to exist. Serfs did have to pay their lord a tax to obtain the right to marry. This 13th-century myth was likely used as a political weapon to discredit lords.

Historical Events

1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts was founded.
1787 – Representatives voted to approve the United States Constitution.
1914 – The VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Women’s Auxiliary was organized.
1916 – Manfred von Richthofen (“The Red Baron”), a flying ace of the German Air Force, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1954 – The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding was published.
2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park, New York City.
2013 – Grand Theft Auto V earned more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.

Birthdays Today

@87 – Warren E. Burger, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
@84 – J. Willard Marriott, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)
“I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if anyone would believe anything good of me anyway.”– Billy the Kid
“Take good care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.”– J. Willard Marriott
@73 – Anne Bancroft, American actress (d. 2005; uterine cancer)
“The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you’re going.”– Anne Bancroft
@70 – Roddy McDowall, English-American actor (d. 1998; lung cancer)
69 – Rita Rudner, American comedian
“I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.– Rita Rudner
60 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director, producer, screenwriter
57 – Kyle Chandler, American actor
@54 – John Ritter, actor (d. 2003; aortic dissection)
42 – Flo Rida, American rapper
32 – Pixie Geldof, English model,singer
@29 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1953; heart attack)
@21 – Billy the Kid [Henry McCarty, known by the pseudonym William H. Bonney,], American gunman (d.1881; shot)