Sept 17

 

Flagstaff Almanac

Week38 Day 260 Sky Cover 10%| Visibility|24mi.Flagstaff Today|69° \43° Wind 7mph|Gusts 10mph 
Nearest active fire: 16miles|Risk of fire: High Nearest Lightning:478mi
Air Quality: Moderate Moisture Days in Sept:7days Sunshine
September Averages: Temps: 74° \ 42° Moisture 5 Days  26 Sunny Days

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

11-17 Celebrate Community Link
National NeoNatal Nurses Week  
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13-17 National Championship Air Races
National Guitar Flat-Picking Days
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14-17 Hummingbird Celebration Link
15-24 National Ballroom Dance Week Link
15-17 Clean Up The World Weekend Link 

Rosh Hashanah
15-21 National Medicare Education Week Link
16-22 Be A Mench Week
Farm Animal Awareness Week

 

17-23 Balance Awareness Week Link   
Build A Better Image Week
Child Passenger Safety Week
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Constitution Week

International Clean Hands Week
International Women's E-Commerce Days
National Construction Appreciation Week
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

Daily Observations

Apple Dumpling Day
Citizenship Day
Constitution Day
Country Music Day

International Country Music Day 
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International NYC Day 
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National Monte Cristo Day 
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National Professional House Cleaners Day  Link
National Table Shuffleboard Day
Responsible Dog Ownership Day
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Time's Up Day  Link
VFW Ladies Auxiliary Day
Wife Appreciation Day
World Patient Safety Day

Today’s Thoughts

Each day starts off cooler, and fall is moving in.

There were a couple of light showers yesterday. Today look dry.

My Covid Toe is much better today…no pain.

Christiane Amanpour started her CNN career at 25. She has now been there 40 years. Great Reporter.

Unions in my life…some good some not so much. Union 1: closed shop. I started at a grocery store and a bagger…remember them?...and in 6 weeks I was a clerk. The union never saw me when I was a bagger, but,  2 days after being promoted, there was the representative telling me it was $100 to join, then and then $10/month to remain active. As a bagger it would have been $50 to join and $5/month and when promoted, I would not have to join again. Not a great start, as the $100 to join would be $975 today with inflation. I did get good wages including triple pay for holidays and time and a half for Sunday. I was never involved in a strike. 2: I joined the BIA teacher’s union, which was not a closed store, when the BIA dropped all teachers from Year Round to career seasonal…losing 2 months of salary. We fought them, had it overturned for 2 years and I got a $5000 check for back pay. The BIA did it right the second time so 3 years later everyone, except the principal, was career seasonal. A good experience. Even after becoming an administrator and unable to have union benefits, I remained pro-union. I wish the writer’s strike and the actor’s strike in solidarity was over. There are lots of repeats on the TV, but the union has some very good bargaining chips. Same for the new automotive strike.

Enjoy

Unique National Treasures for the US …

If you like the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, you’ll love…the National Blues Museum.

Blues music, an amalgam of African-American slave songs, spirituals and field hollers, bloomed in the Mississippi Delta, Louisiana and Texas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Farm workers, migrating north, brought their music with them to Chicago, Detroit and St. Louis, and decades later the blues were part of the primordial soup that created rock ’n’ roll. Both overlapping blues and rock are showcased in Cleveland’s popular Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as well as the lesser-known National Blues Museum in St. Louis.

Random Trivia…

In the Victorian era, men with mustaches used special cups. Pragmatically called “mustache cups,” these specially-made mugs had guards on them which prevented a man’s mustache from dipping into their warm cup of tea!

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46 BC was 445 days long and is the longest year in human history. Nicknamed the year of confusion, this year had two extra leap months inserted by Julius Caesar. This was in order to make his newly-formed Julian Calendar match up with the seasonal year.

Historic Events

·         1630 – The city of Boston, Massachusetts was founded.

·         1787 – Representatives voted to approve the United States Constitution.

·         1914 The VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) Women’s Auxiliary was organized.

·         1916 – Manfred von Richthofen (“The Red Baron”), a flying ace of the German Air Force, won his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.

·         1954 – The novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding was published.

·         2011 – Occupy Wall Street movement began in Zuccotti Park, New York City.

·         2013 – Grand Theft Auto V earned more than half a billion dollars on its first day of release.

Birthdays with some quotes

@87 – Warren E. Burger, American lawyer, and judge, 15th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1995)
@84 – J. Willard Marriott, American businessman, founded the Marriott Corporation (d. 1985)
“Take good care of your employees, and they’ll take good care of your customers, and the customers will come back.”
@73 – Anne Bancroft (Anna Maria Louisa Italiano), American actress (d. 2005; cancer)
“The challenge, whenever you create anything, is to persevere and push away the negative voices. And the more you accomplish, the louder they get. The key is to shut them off and trust in your heart where you’re going.”@70 – Roddy McDowall, English-American actor (d. 1998; lung cancer)
70 – Rita Rudner, American comedian
“You know the oxygen masks on airplanes? I don’t think there’s really any oxygen. I think they’re just to muffle the screams.”
“I never panic when I get lost. I just change where it is I want to go.”
61 – Baz Luhrmann, Australian director, producer, and screenwriter
“I always have a point of view. It may not be right, but it’s my own.”58 – Kyle Chandler, American actor
@54 – John Ritter, American comedian
44 – Flo Rida (Tramar Lacel Dillard), American rapper
33 – Pixie Geldof, English model and singer
@29 – Hank Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1953; alcohol)
@21 – Billy the Kid (Henry McCarty alias William H. Bonney), American gunman (d.1881; shot)
 “I don’t blame you for writing of me as you have. You had to believe other stories, but then I don’t know if anyone would believe anything good of me anyway.”

…The End for today…

 

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