Oct 7

 

 

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Oct 7, 2020  Week: 41 Day: 281	Local:  H 77°\L 36° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%
Wind:   3mph\Gusts:  8mph	Nearest lightning:  1289mi.; active fire:  59mi
EXTREME Risk of Fire	Visibility:  10mi
Record: 80°[1965]   Record: 19°[2007]	Sep Averages: 63°\32° (4 days with moisture)

 

Today’s  Quote

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt

towards people whom we personally dislike.

Oscar Wilde

 

Random Tidbits

 This month's name came from the Latin octo, "eight," because this was the eighth month of the early Roman calendar. When the Romans converted to a 12-month calendar, the name October stuck, even though it's now the 10th month!

The first full Moon of fall - in this case, the Harvest Moon - appeared on Thursday, October 1. Later in the month, on Saturday, October 31 (Halloween), the second full Moon appears. This is the Hunter's Moon, which will be special for two reasons: it's a rare Halloween full Moon and a Blue Moon!

Also keep an eye out for the Draconid meteor shower in the late evening of October 9, and the Orionid meteor shower in the predawn hours of October 21-22.

The October birthstone is the opal, which symbolizes faithfulness and confidence.

Gem-quality opals are known for their play of color, caused by the diffraction of light. They are available in several types, including black, fire, and white opals. Common opals do not shimmer.

October's birth flowers are the cosmos and the calendula or marigold.

 

A little humor

Did you hear about the dentist who planted a garden?

A month later he was picking his teeth.

What do dentists and the TSA have in common?

Cavity checks.

 

True Things

 Despite physical length, there are more bones in the neck of a sloth than a giraffe. There are seven vertebrae in the neck of giraffes, and in most mammals, but there are ten in a sloth. 

 

Observations This Week

3-11	Albuquerque Internat’l Balloon Fiesta: Link  Cancelled due to COVID-19	4-10	Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
3-10	No Salt Week	4-10	Great Books Week
		4-10	Kids' Goal Setting Week   International Post Card WeekLink    Mental Illness Awareness Week
3-10	Sea Otter Awareness Week:Link	4-10	Mystery Series Week National Carry A Tune Week  Link   National Health Care Food Service Week Link  National Metric Week10
3-10	World Hearing Aid Awareness Week	4-10	National Midwifery Week Link National Work From Home Week
1-5	Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link	4-10	Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week World Space Week Link
1-7	National Walk Your Dog Week: Link   Link Universal Children's Week	5-9	Customer Service Week Link Drive Safely Work Week Link
4-10	4-H Week: Link Cancelled due to COVID-19	5-9	Financial Planning Week National Heimlich Heroes Week
4-10	Fire Prevention Week  Link	5-9	Primary Care Physicians Week
6-12	National Physicians Assistant Week	6-11	World Dairy Expo
4-10	Death Penalty Focus Week	5-11	Spinning & Weaving Week Link

 

Observations for Today

Bald and Free Day	National Frappe Day
Balloons Around The World Day	National Forgiveness Day
Coffee With A Cop Day  Link	National Inner Beauty Day Link
International Walk to School Day	National Kale Day
LED Light Day  Link	National Pumpkin Seed Day   Link
National Chocolate Covered Pretzel Day  Link	Pick A Tune Day  Link Random Acts of Poetry Day You Matter To Me Day Link

 

My Rambling Thoughts

That high-pressure system has taken hold and will not leave. Another great day outside. The forest I walk in is all pine trees. I need to head up the mountain to see the aspen. I see a drive in the very near future. The colors are great from here, but I know much better when closer.

Living in Flagstaff I don’t have access to the greatest doctors in the Western Hemisphere, I don’t even have access to Covid testing with fast results. There is no helipad at my residence, in case I need to get the hospital quickly. I don’t think I can pack up my computer, screen, and peripherals to a hospital room. I don’t have in-house staff to cook, clean, wash and iron for me. Because of all that, I will continue to wear a mask in public, remain cautious when outside my house, and recognize Covid for what it is…a potentially deadly disease that has killed over 210,000 fellow Americans since March. Sorry Mr. President, but you just don’t get it.

The administration has spoken of ‘herd immunity’ for Covid. That means that the majority of Americans get it, many recover, many die, and the virus is under control. The President’s mask removal ceremony before entering the People’s House shows that he wants herd immunity…no matter how many fellow Americans die. I’ll pass on that plan.

The BIE (BIA) has a school at Havasupai, at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. Families sued the BIE for lack of necessary Special Education services at the school. The families just won, which will have many ripple effects throughout the entire BIE education system. A step in the right direction.

The VP debate is tomorrow. I want to watch it. Pence should be in quarantine, but he believes, wrongly, that he is invincible. I think this is more of the ‘herd immunity’ concept. He hopes when he gets it that he will recover quickly.

 

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of the page

What makes more as you take them?

 

Historical Events

3761 BC – Today was the first day of creation, according to the Jewish Talmudic Calendar.

1492 Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course

1571 Battle of Lepanto: Holy League of southern European nations destroy Ottoman fleet in significant loss off Western Greece

1868 – Cornell University opened.

1919 – KLM, the Netherlands official airline, was founded.

1933 – Air France began, with the merger of 5 smaller French airlines.

1950 – Mother Teresa opened the Missionary of Charity

1952 – WFIL in Philadelphia introduced Bandstand (later called American Bandstand)

1958 – The US manned space-flight project was renamed Project Mercury. It was originally called Project Astronaut.

1955 Beat poet Allen Ginsberg reads his poem "Howl" for the first time at a poetry reading in San Francisco.

1959 Far side of Moon seen for the 1st time, courtesy of USSR's Luna 3 space probe

1982 – Broadway Show – Cats (Musical) October 7, 1982

1985 – The Achille Lauro was hijacked by Palestine Liberation Front. The hijackers killed wheelchair bound Jewish-American passenger Leon Klinghoffer, throwing him overboard after shooting him.

1993 Nobel prize for literature awarded to American writer Toni Morrison

1996 – The Fox News Channel began broadcasting.

2015 US President Barack Obama apologizes to Doctors without Borders President and the President of Afghanistan for the bombing of a hospital in Kunduz

2016 Washington Post releases videotape of Donald Trump boasting of groping and kissing women without consent

 

Birthdays Today

89 – Desmond Tutu, South African archbishop, and activist, Nobel Prize laureate

78 – Joy Behar, American talk show host, and television personality

@77 – Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1962; heart failure)

@77 – Elijah Muhammad [Elijah Robert Poole], American religious leader (d. 1975; heart failure)

77 – Oliver North, American colonel, journalist, and author

69 – John ‘Cougar’ Mellencamp, American singer-songwriter

68 – Vladimir Putin, world leader

65 – Yo-Yo Ma, French-American cellist

61 – Simon Cowell, English businessman and music producer

 

Puzzle Answer

Footsteps