14 Oct

 

14 October 2022

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 42 Day 287 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 68° \34° 
Wind 1mph \ Gusts 7mph  Air Quality Fair     High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 103mi \ Nearest Lightning 979mi
Oct Averages for Flagstaff: 63° \ 32° (4 days of moisture)
 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

9-15   Death Penalty Focus Week National Metric Week   National Women's Motorcycle Week  Link  Drink Local Wine Week    Earth Science Week Link  Emergency Nurses Week Fire Prevention Week  Link  National Chestnut Week  Teen Read Week

9-16 Sukkot Jewish Holiday

10-17 Take Your Medicine Americans Week

10-15 World Rainforest Week: Link   Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week Link   National School Lunch Week

12-20  Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link

Daily Observations

Ada Lovelace Day
Be Bald and Be Free Day
Chocolate Covered Insects Day
Dessert Day
National Family Bowling Day (or Kids Bowl Free Day) Link  
Spider-Man Day Link 
World Egg Day Link   
World Standards Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

The weather guy sez it will be over 70° today…almost there.

I am shocked and saddened by the leaked conversation of 3 Los Angeles City Council Members. The only solution is resignation. It does remind us that any human, regardless of color or ethnicity, can be despicable.

The Jan 6^th hearings are spellbinding. The finale is the committee subpoena of Former President Donald Trump to testify and bring necessary documents to the committee. I’m sure Trump and his lawyers will have an answer as to why it can’t happen. I must say it is a tad close to the midterm elections.

Favorite Memes

Superstitions

Bad Things Happen in Threes

This is another one you can chalk up to confirmation bias. People have a tendency to take notice of the bad stuff to support this theory but in actuality, there is usually the same balance of good and bad stuff happening to person at any given time. 

US Facts

Moon landing hoax

Some 27% of Americans believe that the US moon landings were a hoax.

Historical Events

1066 – The Battle of Hastings – Normany forces defeated the Anglo-Saxons.
1888 – Louis Le Prince filmed the first motion picture, Roundhay Garden Scene.
1912 – Former President of the US, Theodore Roosevelt, was shot and mildly wounded by John Schrank. With the fresh wound and bullet in his chest, Roosevelt still gave his scheduled speech.
1947 – Captain Chuck Yeager flew a Bell X-1 rocket-powered (and experimental) aircraft, the Glamorous Glennis, faster than the speed of sound over the high desert of Southern California.
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis began when an American reconnaissance aircraft takes photographs of Soviet ballistic missiles being installed in Cuba.
1964 – Dr. Martin Luther King won the Nobel Peace Prize.
1982 – President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the War on Drugs.
1994 – Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Foreign Minister of Israel, Shimon Peres, receive the Nobel Peace Prize for their role in the establishment of the Oslo Accords.
2012 – Felix Baumgartner jumped from a helium balloon 24 miles up, falling for 9 minutes, and reaching a speed of 844 miles per hour, breaking the sound barrier before he landed safely with his parachute.

Birthdays Today

@96 – C. Everett Koop, 13th United States Surgeon General (d. 2013)
“Life affords no greater responsibility, no greater privilege, than the raising of the next generation.”– C. Everett Koop
@89 – Roger Moore, English actor, James Bond #4 (d. 2017)
83 – Ralph Lauren, American fashion designer, founded the Ralph Lauren Corporation
“For me, style is about quality, integrity, and timelessness. It is free of trends but always feels fresh and new.”– Ralph Lauren
@78 – Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (d. 1969; heart attack)
“Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well.”– Dwight D. Eisenhower
@73 – William Penn, founded Pennsylvania (d. 1718)
“Right is right, even if everyone is against it, and wrong is wrong, even if everyone is for it.”
– William Penn
@67 – e.e. cummings, American poet, and playwright (d. 1962; stroke)
“The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”– e.e. cummings
@65 – Harry Anderson, American actor (d. 2018; strokes)
44 – Usher, American singer-songwriter
“Success is all about having the confidence to shoot for something even if it seems impossible.”– Usher