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Dec. Averages: Temps: 43°\20° Moisture:4 Days moisture 0.7” Flagstaff Today 53°: 33° Week 51 Day 349 Wind: 2 mph Gusts 6 mph Nearest lightning: 1058 miles away Active Fire: 88 miles away Risk of
Fire: High Air Quality: Fair Sunshine |
Weekly Observations
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Andisop (Meterological
Fiddling Link 10-17 Human Rights Week 11-1/1/26 Drive Sober or Get Pulled
Over Link 14-22 Chanukah |
14-1/5/26 Christmas Bird Count Week Link Gluten-free Baking Week Halcyon Days 15-19 Cookie Exchange Week |
Daily Observations
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Bill
of Rights Day |
National
Wear Your Pearls Day |
Today’s Quotes
Today’s Memes
My Thoughts for the day
Another blue-sky day…no complaints.
Another campus shooting. Another Jewish attack in Australia. This world
has way too many crazies out there. I am saddened that these kinds of attacks
against our fellow humans are becoming normalized. Our country, and the world,
should be better than this. I have no answers, but someone must have a plan to
save innocent lives. I know people are trying…at Tuba Boarding you need a badge
to open any of the doors to enter the building. I remember after Columbine, Tuba
issued employee badges. The Bureau school began hiring ‘guards’ that were on
campus during school hours as well as the long-time night guards that had been
on campus for decades. It seems to me more money needs to go into dealing with
mental health to help identify those who might carry out such an attack.
Mary had another successful cataract surgery last week. She can now see without
glasses, something she hasn’t done since she was 5 years old. Her son was driving
his Tesla in Vegas when it hit a tow truck while in ‘auto-drive’. No one was
injured but the Tesla was not repairable. He used the insurance money to buy…a
new Tesla. That sounds crazy to me, but
he really likes Tesla.
There have been several celebrations since Julius’ sister, Geraldine…also
a teacher, has honored her 4 daughters for each holding a master’s degree. Only
8% of Indigenous citizens hold a Masters. Quite the accomplishment…especially since
Geraldine was the first of three siblings in her family to get a Master’s long
ago.
Wild West Myths that never happened…
Gold Was
Everywhere
Gold rush
stories make it seem like nuggets could be picked up off the ground. While some
lucky prospectors struck it rich, most found little to nothing.
Mining
was backbreaking work that required expensive equipment, and many miners ended
up poorer than when they started. Those who profited most were often merchants
who sold supplies rather than miners themselves.
Dreams of
instant wealth fueled migration, but the reality was hardship, disappointment,
and sometimes exploitation. Entire boomtowns rose and fell based on these false
hopes.
Cities that changed their names…
Batavia →
Jakarta (Indonesia)
During
Dutch colonial rule, Indonesia’s capital was known as Batavia, a name that
echoed Europe more than Java. After independence in 1949, the city reclaimed an
older identity: Jakarta. The new name came from “Jayakarta,” meaning “complete
victory.” It was both linguistic and symbolic: a triumph over colonialism.
Modern Jakarta still hums with contradictions: skyscrapers beside markets,
tradition beside traffic. But every time someone says the name, they repeat
that original victory.
Random Thoughts…
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What does our inner voice sound like?
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It’s important to have someone who accepts you for who you
are and feeds your mind and soul rather than your ego.
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It is better for me to leave someone who does not make me
happy than to allow someone to pluck and trample the blossoms of my soul.
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Is there a universe where the multi-universe idea isn’t
true?
Historic Events
1654 - A meteorological
office established in Tuscany began recording daily temperature readings.
1791 - In the U.S., the first ten
amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, went into effect
following ratification by the state of Virginia.
1840 - Napoleon Bonapart's remains were
interred in Les Invalides in Paris, having been brought from St. Helena, where
he died in exile.
1854 - In Philadelphia, the first street
cleaning machine was put into use.
1890 - American Sioux Indian Chief Sitting
Bull and 11 other tribe members were killed in Grand River, SD, during an incident with
Indian police working for the U.S. government.
1939 - "Gone With the Wind,"
produced by David O. Selznick based on the novel by Margaret Mitchell,
premiered at Loew's Grand Theater in Atlanta. The movie starred Vivien Leigh
and Clark Gable.
1941 - U.S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into practice Bill of Rights Day.
1944 - Dr. R. Townley Paton and a small
group of doctors laid the groundwork for the Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration.
1961 - The U.N. General Assembly voted
against a Soviet proposal to admit Communist China as a member.
1978 - U.S. President
Carter announced he would grant diplomatic recognition to Communist
China on New Year's Day and sever official relations with Taiwan.
1982 - Paul "Bear" Bryant
announced his retirement as head football coach at the University of Alabama.
1992 - IBM announced it would eliminate
25-thousand employees in the coming year.
1993 - In Geneva, 117 countries completed
the Uruguay Round of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). The
countries agreed on a reform package.
1997 - The San Francisco 49ers retired Joe
Montana's number 16 during halftime of a game against the Denver Broncos.
2001 - It was announced that Siena Heights
University would begin offering a class called "Animated Philosophy and
Religion." The two-credit class would cover how religion and philosophy
are part of popular culture and is based on the television series "The
Simpsons."
Birthdays
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1939 Dave Clark (86
years old), British rock drummer, singer-songwriter, and producer (Dave Clark
Five - "Glad All Over"), born in Tottenham, Middlesex,
England ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Adam Brody(46 years
old), American actor (The O.C., Nobody Wants This), born in San Diego,
California ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ English actor (Daredevil, The
Theory of Everything, Boardwalk Empire), born in London |
Emperor of Rome (54-68),
born in Antium, Italy ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ French engineer and architect who
designed and built the Eiffel tower, born in Dijon, France ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Henri Becquerel(d.1908;
@55; heart attack) French physicist who
discovered radioactivity (Nobel 1903), born in Paris, France ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ American
oil magnate and
billionaire (Getty Oil), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ John
H. Hammond, American music producer, talent scout, promoter, and activist,
"discovered" Billie Holiday, Teddy Wilson, Count Basie, Bob Dylan,
and Bruce Springsteen, born in New York City (d. 1987; @76, strokes) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ New
Zealand-born English physicist whose
X-ray diffraction studies of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) with Rosalind
Franklin, proved crucial to discovery of DNA’s molecular structure by James
Watson and Francis Crick (Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, 1962), born
in Pongaroa, New Zealand ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Jeff Chandler [Ira
Grossel], American actor (Broken Arrow), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1961; @42, blood infection) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ (Albert) "Alan" Freed, American
disc jockey and concert promoter who popularized the term
"rock-n-roll", and payola scandal figure, born in Windber,
Pennsylvania (d. 1965@ 43 cirrhosis) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
…The End for today…
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