20 Sep

 

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 39 Day 263 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 10 miles Flagstaff Today 75° \44° 
Wind 10mph \ Gusts 16mph  Air Quality Fair
High Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 176mi \ Nearest Lightning 242mi
Sep Averages for Flagstaff: 74° \ 42° (5days of moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

15-21  National Medicare Education Week Link

16-25 National Ballroom Dance Week  Link

17-23 Constitution Week Farm Animal Awareness Week

18-24 Balance Awareness Week Link    Build A Better Image Week  Child Passenger Safety Week Link   Deaf Dog Awareness Week Link   International Clean Hands Week International Go-Kart Week  International Interpreters and Translators Week  International Women's E-Commerce Days Mitochondrial Disease Awareness Week   Link National Dog Week Link   Link  Link National Employ Older Workers Week Link  National Farm & Ranch Safety and Health Week National Historically Black Colleges & Universities Week National Indoor Plant Week  National Rehabilitation Awareness Week  National Security Officer Appreciation Week  National Singles Week   Prostate Cancer Awareness Week   Tolkien Week  World Reflexology Week

19-25  International Week of the Deaf Link  National Go-Kart Week  Link National Love Your Files Week   Link   Pollution Prevention Week  Link

19-30 International Women's Commerce Days

Daily Observations

International Day of University Sport
IT Professionals Day 
National Care for Kids Day  Link
National Fried Rice Day Link
National String Cheese Day  Link
National Voter Registration Day Link
Pepperoni Pizza Day
Rum Punch Day
String Cheese Day

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

A nice fall day.

Today is my Service Comp Date. That is the day I started work for the BIA in Shonto AZ as a 3^rd grade teacher. I retired after 36 great years. I taught 3^rd and 4^th grade and 7^th and 8^th grade English, was a teacher supervisor at Red Lake and Tuba Boarding. I also served at various times in various places as an Acting Principal. I had a month stint as Acting Western Navajo School Superintendent. It was a great career, a lot of work, and worth every minute. It was a great learning experience.

The ’Cardiac Cardinals’ pulled off a win in OT yesterday. They were behind the entire game until the last 2 minutes. The Broncos won too.

Hurricane Fiona has hit Puerto Rico and is doing devastating damage.

Queen Elizabeth II has been buried after her death 10 days ago. The coverage has taught everyone who watched a great deal about the Monarchy. She had a 70-year reign…a record.

When a state or the Feds send asylum seekers to another state it is disturbing. It is not ‘human trafficking’ according to the law. It is still difficult to understand. Most of these asylum seekers are Spanish speakers, with little or no English. The border states have many Spanish speakers who are here legally. Some of the asylum seekers are transported across the US, the end up in an area where there are few Spanish speakers. That makes it harder for everyone involved. My broken record is still playing: only Congress can fix this human debacle.

Favorite Memes

Random trivia…

Beer is the second most popular drink on Earth after tea. The third-most popular if you include water. In 2018, people consumed nearly 50 billion gallons of beer worldwide.

Beer is as old as human history. Beer brewing and drinking predate written language.

The earliest evidence of beer making was found in western Iran, dating back to 3,500 BC.

In ancient Mesopotamia, beer was associated with religion and ritual and was believed to have magical powers.

In Medieval Europe, Catholic monks would often undergo "beer fasts" during the forty days of Lent. They ate no food, getting calories only from beer, which they called "liquid bread."

Brewers began adding hops to beer in the 9th century AD. Today, nearly all beer is brewed with hops, which adds a zesty, bitter flavor to beer and acts as a preservative.

Myth Buster

Wall Street suicides rose after the 1929 crash

Rumor has it that the crash of 1929 caused a wave of suicides by financiers jumping from windows. A certain Winston Churchill even claimed to have witnessed such incidents, but research conducted by economist John Kenneth Galbraith showed no spike in suicides. Several deaths of distressed people were reported during this period, but none were related to the financial crisis.

Historical Events

1946 – The first Cannes Film Festival was held, having been delayed seven years due to World War II.
1973 – Singer Jim Croce, songwriter and musician Maury Muehleisen and four others died when their light aircraft crashed.
1973 – An estimated 90 million people watched ‘The Battle of the Sexes.’ Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in a televised tennis match at the Astrodome in Houston, Texas.
1998 – The Iron Man Rested – Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken, Jr. sat out a game, ending his consecutive MLB game playing streak. Cal “Irom Man’ Ripken played 2,632 consecutive games over 16 seasons.
1977 – Fonzi ‘jumped the shark’ on Happy Days
2009 – Barack Obama appeared on five Sunday news/talk shows on the same day: CBS’s Face the Nation, ABC’s This Week, CNN’s State of the Union with John King, NBC/MSNBC’s Meet the Press and on Univision.
2011 – The United States military ended the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, allowing gay men and women to serve openly for the first time.

Birthdays Today

@98 – Dorothy Vaughan, mathematician at NASA (d. 2008)
@90 – Upton Sinclair, American novelist, critic, and essayist (d. 1968)
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”– Upton Sinclair
88 – Sophia Loren, Italian actress
“I’d much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0.”– Sophia Loren
@85 – Anne Meara, American comedic actress, and playwright (d. 2015)
74 – George R.R. Martin, American novelist, and short story writer
“When you tear out a man’s tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you’re only telling the world that you fear what he might say.”– George R. R. Martin
@76 – Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (d. 1994; mediastinitis)
@69 – Jay Ward, founded Jay Ward Productions (d. 1989; cancer)
@49 – William H. Illingworth, English-American photographer (d. 1893; suicide)
47 – Asia Argento, Italian actress
“People’s attitudes about sex aren’t healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.”– Asia Argento