11 Dec

 

`Flagstaff Almanac

Week 50 Day 345   Flag Today  46° \13°	Sky Cover 5% Wind 2mph Gusts 4mph
Active fire: 451miles Risk of fire: High	Near Lightning: 723 mi (Idaho/CA border)
Air Quality: Fair Sunshine	Dec. Averages: Temps: 44° \ 17° Moisture 5 Days

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

4-24 Andisop (Meteorological Fiddling)  Link 8-14  Computer Science Education Week Link

10-17 Human Rights Week

Daily Observations

Holiday Food Drive for Needy Animals Day International Mountain Day Kaleidoscope Day Magnum P.I. Day National App Day  Link

National Have a Bagel Day National Sobriety Day Link National Stretching Day Link UNICEF Birthday

Today’s Thoughts

The weather guy said expect cold temps last night. I didn’t expect 13°. The U Penn president and the board President both resigned after her comments before Congress on antisemitism. I was obvious that all 3 Presidents before the committee had been prepped by lawyers protecting the University…short answers with admitting to nothing. Billie Jean King will be on CNN tonight. She turned 80 this year. I’m not a big tennis follower but do remember the Battle of the Sexes. The clips were interesting enough for me to watch the interview. The battles in Gaza have killed 68 journalists since Oct. There have been 96 journalists around the world killed this year and over 400 have been imprisoned. This is wrong in so many ways.

 Enjoy

Famous Natives to Know…

Tantoo Cardinal First Nations and Métis actress Tantoo Cardinal's decades-long career is legendary. Most recently, she appeared as Lizzie Q, Mollie Kyle's mother, in Killers of the Flower Moon, but you've also seen her in Dances with Wolves (1990), Legends of the Fall (1994), ABC's Stumptown (2019–2020), and Prime Video's Three Pines, to name a few. She even joined fellow indigenous actor Wes Studi in voicing an elder in the cartoon series Spirit Rangers.

Best TV Quotes… TV quotes

Book 'em, Danno." — "Hawaii Five-O", 1968-1980.

Historic Events

1789 – The University of North Carolina was chartered by the North Carolina General Assembly. December 11, 1941 – Germany and Italy declared war on the United States. 1946 – UNICEF (United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund) was founded. 2001 – The People’s Republic of China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Birthdays with some quotes

92 – Rita Moreno, Puerto Rican-American actress, singer, and dancer “It is through art that we will prevail and we will endure. It lives on after us and defines us as people.” @89 – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (d. 2008) “Let us not forget that violence does not live alone and is not capable of living alone: it is necessarily interwoven with falsehood. Between them lies the most intimate, the deepest of natural bonds. Violence finds its only refuge in falsehood, falsehood its only support in violence. Any man who has once acclaimed violence as his METHOD must inexorably choose falsehood as his PRINCIPLE.” @86 – David Brewster, Scottish physicist, inventor of the Kaleidoscope (d.1868) 83 – David Gates, American singer-songwriter 83 – Donna Mills, American actress 80 – John Kerry, American politician 79 – Lynda Day George, American actress 78 – Brenda Lee, American singer-songwriter @76 – John Labatt, Canadian brewer (d. 1915) @76 – Tom Hayden, American politician (d. 2016; heart issues) @74 – John Buscema, American comic book artist (d. 2002; cancer) 74 – Teri Garr, American actress @72 – Pérez Prado, Cuban-Mexican singer-songwriter and bandleader (d. 1989; stroke) 70 – Bess Armstrong, American actress 69 – Jermaine Jackson, American singer-songwriter, Jackson 5 66 – Peter Bagge, American author, and illustrator 65 – Nikki Sixx (Frank Carlton Serafino Feranna Jr.), American bass player “I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser.” @64 – Fiorello La Guardia, New York politician (d. 1947; cancer) 56 – Mo’Nique (Monique Angela Hicks), American comedian 50 – Mos Def, American rapper 49 – Rey Mysterio, American wrestler @49 – J. Frank Wilson, American singer-songwriter “Last Kiss” (d. 1991; alcoholism) 27 – Hailee Steinfeld, American actress, and singer “It needs to be said and heard: it’s OK to be who you are. My mom taught me to live by the three p’s: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.”

…The End for today…