25 Jan

 

25 January 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 4 Day 25 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 18 miles Flagstaff Today 44° \5°  Wind 7mph \ Gusts 12mph 
Air Quality: Fair\Very Kow Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 288mi \ Nearest Lightning 961mi
Jan Averages for Flagstaff: 44° \ 16° \5 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

18-25
Week of Christian Unity
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
19-29
Sundance Film Festival
22-28
Clean Out Your Inbox Week
Data Privacy Week Link
National CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists) Week
National Handwriting Analysis Week
National School Choice Week Link 
Snowcare for Troops Week
Snowcare for Troops Week
23-28
National Medical Group Practice Week
23-25
Westminster Dog Show
24-27
International Hoof-Care Week Link 

Daily Observations
A Room of One’s Own Day
Fluoride Day
Library Shelfie Day Link
Macintosh Computer Day Link
National Irish Coffee Day
Opposite Day Link
Robert Burns Day Link  Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Sunshine is the order of the day. There are no storms on the horizon. I’m a happy camper now.

There has been 2 more mass shootings in CA and one in Washington state since yesterday. It is so hard for me to understand why the Congress cannot find a way to prevent these seemingly senseless acts of violence against our own citizens.

Trump was invited to speak at Diamond’s funeral. She was the big Trump supporter and a singer, who performed with Silk. It must be one of the strangest eulogies I have ever heard about.  His 44-minute speech was not what the family expected.

The latest classified document story is now handed off to Mike Pence. He has classified documents in his home. Seriously, someone or many some-ones are not doing the job of protecting classified documents. Biden and Pence seem mystified as to how those documents ended up where they were found. There is something very wrong if two of those caught with documents helped write the laws about handling classified information did not understand it well enough to follow it. It sounds like the historians of the future are the only ones who will know what was found and why it was found. This is crazy. Many of our allies must be shaking their heads at these pieces of news. This is bad news for all Americans.

The ACLU has filed a lawsuit for states that are misusing COVID funds in prisons. AZ planned to spend $4.2 million of COVID relief funds to renovate executive and admin offices. Other projects cited by the ACLU in its letter are in Maine, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma and Alabama. WOW!

The Big 5 of Africa…lions, leopards, elephants, African buffalo, & rhinoceroses

Arizona is a great state…

·        Arizona has the largest contiguous stand of Ponderosa pines in the world stretching from near Flagstaff along the Mogollon Rim to the White Mountains region.

·        Yuma, Arizona is the country's highest producer of winter vegetables, especially lettuce.

·        Arizona is the 6th largest state in the nation, covering 113,909 square miles.

Facts…

Humans are the only known animal that cries from emotion.

Slang Origins

1974: Psyche!

Meaning: exclamation used to indicate something is a joke

Practical jokes are a time-honored tradition, one that even has its own holiday in April. In the 1970s, when you wanted your friend to know that you weren’t serious about whatever you said or did, you could tack “psyche!” onto the end of your sentence before having a good laugh together. The youth of today might use “jk” or “just kidding” to make the same point.

UNESCO sites…

Vatican City Is the Only Country That Is Entirely a UNESCO World Heritage Site

Vatican City is the world’s smallest sovereign nation — the city-state is just 0.17 square miles in size and surrounded entirely by Rome, Italy. The entire country is also recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its outstanding cultural significance. At its center is St. Peter’s Basilica, the largest Catholic church in the world, which contains the tomb of the Apostle St. Peter. The permanent seat of the pope, Vatican City features an impressive collection of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, including Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel and works by Raphael, Leonardo Da Vinci, and Caravaggio, to name a few.

Historical Events

1881 – Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell founded the Oriental Telephone Company.
1890 – American writer Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochran Seaman) completed her round-the-world journey in 72 days.
1921 – The word ‘robot’ was first used, in the play “R.U.R. (Rossum’s Universal Robots) by Karel and Josef Capek.
The 1924 Winter Olympics opens in Chamonix, in the French Alps, starting the first Winter Olympic Games.
1961 – From Washington, DC, President John F. Kennedy delivered the first live presidential television news conference.

Birthdays Today

@91 – William Somerset Maugham, English playwright (d. 1965)
The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.– W. Somerset Maugham
@84 – Dean Jones, American actor (d. 2015)
@74 – William Colgate, businessman, philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (d. 1857)
@73 – Etta James, Blues singer (d.2012; dementia)
66 – Jenifer Lewis, American actress, singer
@59 – Virginia Woolf, English novelist, essayist, short story writer, critic (d. 1941; drowned)
While fame impedes and constricts, obscurity wraps about a man like a mist; obscurity is dark, ample, and free; obscurity lets the mind take its way unimpeded. Over the obscure man is poured the merciful suffusion of darkness. None knows where he goes or comes. He may seek the truth and speak it; he alone is free; he alone is truthful, he alone is at peace.– Virginia Woolf
45 – Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukrainian President
42 – Alicia Keys, American singer-songwriter
Everything you want to be, you already are. You’re simply on the path to discovering it.– Alicia Keys
@41 – Diana Hyland, American actress (d. 1977; breast cancer)
@37 – Robert Burns, poet (d. 1796; possible rheumatic heart condition)