10 January 2023
Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 2 Day 10 \ Ave. Sky Cover 15% \ Visibility 19 miles Flagstaff Today 52° \25° Wind 2mph \ Gusts 3mph
Air Quality: Moderate \Low Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 313mi \ Nearest Lightning 1001mi
Jan Averages for Flagstaff: 44° \ 16° \5
Days of moisture
Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
6-Feb 21
Carnival Season
7-14
National Personal Trainer Awareness Week
8-14
Home
Office Safety and Security Week
National Mocktail Week
Daily Observations
Houseplant
Appreciation Day Link
League of Nations Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
National Booch (Kombucha) Day
League of Nations Day
National Bittersweet Chocolate Day
National Booch (Kombucha) Day Link
National Cut Your Energy Costs Day
National Oysters Rockefeller Day Link
National Poetry at Work Day
National Shop For Travel Day Link
Peculiar People
Day
Save The Eagles Day
My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts
Starting
a new week with a nice winter day.
The
Broncos ended their season with a win over the Chargers. The Cards ended their
season with another loss, this time to the 49ers. I am expecting coaching changes
in the near future.
Brazil
is experiencing vote denial and is more violent that what happened here in the
states. It is sad to see. What has happened
to democracies that when a candidate loses, they lick their wounds and move on?
Biden
visited the border in El Paso, but the far right still isn’t happy. Now they
are claiming the area was cleared before the President arrived.
Waterfalls around the world
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Facts…
It’s not
just the immense scale of the reef that makes the Great Barrier Reef visible to
astronauts in space. The contrast between the dark blue of the deeper parts of
the ocean and the light turquoise of the lagoons on the other side of the reef
makes it relatively straightforward to identify with the naked eye. But the
pictures taken from space are valued for more than their aesthetic appeal. The
MERIS sensor used on the Envisat satellite mission was a useful tool in mapping
the extent of coral bleaching, the term given to stressed coral which has rid
itself of algae.
Scientists
are continually studying the Great Barrier Reef, but the discovery of a
1,640-foot-tall reef off the North Queensland coast was an exceptional find,
the largest discovery in more than a century. By comparison, the Empire State
Building measures 1,454 feet from sidewalk to tip. Researchers from the Schmidt
Ocean Institute in California were using an underwater robot to create a 3D map
of the seafloor when they made the discovery. The submarine landform, which is
about a mile wide, is right off the northern tip of the Great Barrier Reef.
Slang Origins
1960: Groovy
Meaning: hip, trendy; marvelous or
excellent
Occasionally, a slang word is born that
defines a generation, and groovy is one of them. It started as jazz slang in
the 1930s, referring to the grooves in a record, before exploding in popularity
during the 1960s and ‘70s during the hippie movement. Today, the word has
become the relic of another era, a catch-all used to describe anything that
comes from the decade, even baby names.
Historical Events
1776 – “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine was
published.
1870 – John D. Rockefeller incorporates
Standard Oil.
1878 – The first (Susan B. Anthony Woman)
Woman’s Suffrage Amendment was offerd to congress by Senator Arlen A. Sargent
of California.
1927 – Fritz Lang’s futuristic film
Metropolis was released in Germany.
1946 – The United Nations’ General
Assembly (51 countries) met for the first time in London.
Birthdays Today
@91 – Jerry Wexler, American music producer (d.2008)
@87 – Philip Levine, American poet (d.2015)
@83 – Max Roach, American drummer and composer (d.2007)
@83 – Ray Bolger,
American actor (d.1987)
I was brought up on the books of
The Wizard of Oz and my mother told me that these were great philosophies. It
was a very simple philosophy, that everybody had a heart, that everybody had a
brain, that everybody had courage. These were the gifts that are given to you
when you come on this earth, and if you use them properly, you reach the pot at
the end of the rainbow. And that pot of gold was a home. And home isn’t just a
house or an abode, its people, people who love you
and that you love. That’s a home.– Ray Bolger
@83 – David Horowitz, American
activist and author
@79 – Roy E. Disney, American businessman (d.2009;
cancer)
It’s not hard to make decisions once you know what your
values are.– Roy E. Disney
78 – Rod Stewart, English
singer-songwriter
@75 – (John)
Robinson Jeffers, American poet (d.1962)
75 – Donald
Fagen, American singer-songwriter, musician
It’s
great to know that our old stuff still sounds good to our fans, just as it’s
wonderful to think that we’ve turned a few people on to jazz over the years.–
Donald Fagen
74 – George Foreman, Boxer, Grill-guy
@73 – Scott
McKenzie, American singer-songwriter (d.2012)
73 – Roy Blunt, American politician
@72 – Frank James, American
criminal (d.1915)
I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally
lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.– Frank James
@72 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American
singer and actor (d.2016; heart attack)
70 – Pat Benatar, American singer-songwriter
You can’t change the past so don’t let it haunt you. You can
change the future but first you’ve got to want to.– Pat Benatar
@66 – Charles Phillip Ingalls, the
father of Laura Ingalls Wilder (d.1902; heart disease)
@63 – Johnnie Ray, American singer-songwriter and
pianist (d.1990; liver disease)
@57 – Grand Duke Peter Nikolaevich of Russia (d.1931)
@53 – Linda
Lovelace, American actress (d.2002; auto accidnet)
50 – Félix Trinidad, Puerto Rican-American boxer
42 – Jared Kushner, American businessman political
figure
@37 – Sal Mineo,
American actor (d.1976; murdered)
