19 Jan

19 January 2023

Daily Almanac for Flagstaff
Week 3 Day 19 \ Ave. Sky Cover 5% \ Visibility 16 miles Flagstaff Today 43° \8°  Wind 3mph \ Gusts 8mph 
Air Quality: Fair \Very Low Moderate High Extreme Risk of fire \ Nearest active fire 563mi \ Nearest Lightning 1055mi
Jan Averages for Flagstaff: 44° \ 16° \5 Days of moisture
Sunshine

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

14-22
International Snowmobile Safety and Awareness Week
15-21
Healthy Weight Week
Hunt For Happiness Week
Idiom Week
National Activity Professionals Week
Sugar Awareness Week
16-20
No Name Calling Week Link
17-23
National Fresh Squeezed Juice Week
18-25
Week of Christian Unity
National Soccer Coaches of America Week
19-29
Sundance Film Festival

Daily Observations

Artist as Outlaw Day
Get to Know Your Customers Day
Good Memory Day
National Popcorn Day
Popcorn Day Link 
Tenderness Towards Existence Day
Tin Can Day
Women's Healthy Weight Day
World Day of Migrants and Refugees
World Quark Day Link

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

Finally, the sun is shining. The  30+ inches should be melted by spring break. Some is melting today as it is a blistering 43° outside.

FYI: The last impeachment of an Executive branch Secretary was in the late 1870’s during Grant’s administration. The Secretary of War resigned, but the House still impeached him and the Senate held the trial. While the majority voted to impeach, they did not have the 2/3 majority needed to convict. Since the Republicans don’t have a 2/3 majority in the Senate today, I doubt any impeachment this term will be successful.

It is interesting that Marjorie Taylor Green was a 9-11 denier for over three years is now serving on the Homeland Security Committee in the house. Also, Paul Gosar, AZ, is back on the Natural Resources Committee he was removed from for his various statements. It’s going to be an interesting term for Congress.

On the Navajo Reservation, the chapter house is like the city hall off the reservation. This is where most chapter business and meetings are held. I was reading a post from Shonto where a meeting was being held to prepare for the funeral of a local well-known resident. In that post I was shocked to learn that the Shonto Chapter House is using a port-a-potty because the toilet is broken and that the Chapter House is heated with a pellet stove that heats very slowly and that everyone wears very warm clothes during cold spells when visiting or working at the Chapter House. So sad.

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

Facts…

Having “perfect pitch” may be genetic.

Musical training has a lot to do with how well someone can carry a tune, though researchers believe that genetics may also play a role. Perfect pitch — being able to easily identify or replicate a particular note without any help — is often sought after by musicians, but is considered relatively rare; an estimated one to five people out of every 10,000 have the ability. Remarkably, perfect pitch often runs in families, leading some scientists to believe there’s a genetic component to musical talent. However, you don’t need to be a member of the von Trapp family to become a skilled singer. Some studies show that children who begin musical training by age four have a higher chance at developing perfect pitch, and in some cases, people develop the skill at older ages, joining the likes of perfect-pitch musicians such as Ella Fitzgerald, Jimi Hendrix, and Mozart. 

Slang Origins

1969: Spacey

Meaning: dazed or stupefied; lacking focus

A shortening of “spaced-out,” the first appearance of “spacey” in print coincides with the end of the Space Race between the USA and USSR. The quest to be the first nation to put a human on the moon, immortalized in JFK’s “We choose to go the moon” speech in 1962, culminated in the landing of the Apollo 11 space mission on July 20, 1969.

UNESCO sites…

London's Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Feature the World's Largest Collection of Plants

The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, are home to more than 50,000 native and exotic plants, trees, and flowers — the largest collection of living plants in the world. Encompassing 330 acres along the Thames River in southwest London, the gardens date back to 1759 and were declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2003 for their “significant and uninterrupted contribution to the study of plant diversity and economic botany.” Kew Gardens are also home to the world’s largest plant conservation program, known as the Millennium Seed Bank Project, founded in 1996.

Historical Events

1883 – The first electric lighting system using overhead wires, built by Thomas Edison, began in Roselle, New Jersey.1915 –
1915 – Georges Claude patented the neon tube.
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) was founded.

Birthdays Today

@99 – George Burns, American comedian (d. 1996)
You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.– George Burns
93 – Tippi Hedren, American model, actress
@83 – James Watt, Scottish-English chemist, engineer (d. 1819)
@73 – Frederico Fellini, Italian film director (d. 1993; heart attack)
There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life.– Frederico Fellini
@74 – Phil Everly, American singer-songwriter, The Everly Brothers (d. 2014; lung disease)
79 – Shelley Fabares, American actress and singer
77 – Dolly Parton, American singer-songwriter, actress
Find out who you are and do it on purpose.– Dolly Parton
76 – Paula Deen, American chef, and author
70 – Desi Arnaz, Jr., American actor, singer
69 – Katey Sagal, American actress
68 – Paul Rodriguez, Mexican-American comedian, actor
@67 – Paul Cézanne, French painter (d. 1906; hypothermia)
Painting from nature is not copying the object; it is realizing one’s sensations.– Paul Cézanne
@63 – Robert E. Lee, American general, academic (d. 1870; stroke)
The truth is this: The march of Providence is so slow, and our desires so impatient; the work of progress is so immense and our means of aiding it so feeble; the life of humanity is so long, that of the individual so brief, that we often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged. It is history that teaches us to hope.– Robert E. Lee
@54 – Robert Palmer, English singer-songwriter (d. 2003; heart attack)
52 – Shawn Wayans, American actor, producer, screenwriter
@40 – Edgar Allan Poe, American short-story writer, poet, critic (d. 1849)
I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.– Edgar Allen Poe
31 – Shawn Johnson, American gymnast
31 – Logan Lerman, American actor
@27 – Janis Joplin, American singer-songwriter (d. 1970) #27club
Don’t compromise yourself. You are all you’ve got.– Janis Joplin
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.– Janis Joplin