Week: 43
Day: 296
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Today’s Quote
Weekly Observations
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17-24 |
Food & Drug
Interactions and Awareness Week |
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17-23 |
Bullying Bystanders Unite
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18-23 |
YWCA
Week Without Violence Link |
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18-24 |
Career
in Energy Week Mediation
Week Link |
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20-23 |
International
Dyslexia Association Reading Week |
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20-27 |
Sukkot |
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23-31 |
Red Ribbon Week Link |
Daily Observations
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Favorite Memes
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Trivia
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The world's
biggest spider is the goliath spider (Theraphosa blondi) lives in Northern
South America. It can grow up to 11 inches wide, and its fangs are up to one
inch long. It hunts frogs, lizards, mice, and even small snakes and young
birds. The world's
smallest spider is the Patu marplesi. It is so small that 10 of them could
fit on the end of a pencil. |
My Sometimes-Long-Winded
Thoughts
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Nice
fall day. Did some shopping and didn’t even need a light jacket while out and
about. Nice! Yesterday
worked out great. I met with my blood doctor on Wednesday afternoon and
explained my predicament to get a phlebotomy…having to drive to Prescott. He
called in a nurse. She then got on the phone with the VAT team at the Flag
hospital, the ones who do the ultrasound, and worked out a deal where I go to
the hospital lab, they insert the huge needle with ultra-sound. They tape it down;
I drive a block to Cancer Center and they do the phlebotomy and remove the needle.
It worked out just great. That saved me 3+ hours of driving. I am so
grateful. There are many good people in this crazy world. Everyone
knows that there is a shortage of workers in many parts of the economy…restaurants
and fast-food places are especially hard hit. A new trend is to have robots
do many of the jobs where it is hard to find workers. For example, being a
fry cook is a hot, dirty, and boring job. So now robots are doing it in fast-food
restaurants. In some sit-down restaurants, food is now put on stacked trays
and the robot delivers it to the table. Sounds a tad too impersonal for me. Redlining
in the 1930’s was the practice of keeping Blacks out of certain neighborhoods
and turned many urban areas into little but cement buildings and sidewalks
with few parks, grassy areas, and trees. A recent study of the average
temperatures shows some startling information. In suburban areas with lots of
trees, grass, and parks it is 13° cooler on average than urban settings with
no parks, trees, or grass. So sad. In politics:
Senator Manchin promised to get a bipartisan voting rights bill. He worked
tirelessly for months. His bill was finally put up for a vote. The result of
his bipartisan bill was ZERO Republicans voted for the bill. Then there is AZ
senator Sinema who must deal with the resignation of 5 military vets on her
office’s advisory board because she has ignored their recommendations and
that she has gone back on many of her campaign promises. These two are
holding up lots of legislation and now it looks like they are only helping
the Republicans in the 2022 elections. So Sad. Gabby’s fiancé’s
body has been found. Forensic science will now be the only clues to the death
of both…unless the parents tell what they know. |
Historical Events
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1746 Princeton
University (NJ) received its charter 1836 Sam Houston
inaugurated as 1st elected President of the Republic of Texas 1916 US suffragette
Inez Milholland collapses during a speech in Los Angeles (dies weeks later).
Her last word's are to President Woodrow Wilson “Mr. President, how long must
women wait for liberty?” 1962 Cuban Missile
Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy addresses TV about Russian missile bases
in Cuba and imposes a naval blockade on Cuba, beginning the missile crisis 1973 – President Nixon
agreed to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations. 1983 – A terror attack
against US armed forces in Beirut, Lebanon killed 240 people. 2001 – The iPod was
demonstrated. On sale the following week, the retail price was $399. 2019 Japanese Emperor
Naruhito alongside Empress Masako formally declares his ascension to the
throne of the world's oldest monarchy |
Birthdays Today
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81 @78 67 62 45 37 |
Pelé, Brazilian footballer, actor Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (d. 1923) Ang Lee, director “Weird Al” Yankovic, American comedic
singer-songwriter Ryan Reynolds, Canadian-American actor, producer Meghan McCain, American journalist, author |
