Oct 23

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Oct  23, 2018 Week: 43 \ Day: 296

86004 Today: H 62° \ L 42° \ Average Sky Cover: 40% 

Wind:   14mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 76°[2003]   Record Low: 10°[1906]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

There is nothing permanent except change.

  Heraclitus

Harper’s Index

            $3,400,000

            Total amount owed by Pennsylvania’s top

            100 evaders of highway tolls

Observances This Week

17-24

Food & Drug Interactions and Awareness Week

20-27

INVICTUS Games
Asexuality Week Link  Link
Freedom From Bullies Week
Kids Care Week
National Character Counts Week
National Business Women's Week  Link
National Chemistry Week
National Collegiate Alcohol Awareness Week Link 
National Forest Products Week
National Friends of Libraries Week
National Pharmacy Week 
National Save For Retirement Week Link 
National Teen Drivers Safety Week Link 
National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week Link  )
National Massage Therapy Week Link 
National Respiratory Care Week Link
Pastoral Care Week Link 
Pro Bono Week  Link
Rodent Awareness Week

22-28

Freedom of Speech WeekLink   

23-31

Red Ribbon Week Link  
Disarmament Week
Prescription Errors Education & Awareness Week

Observances for Today

IPod Day
Lung Health Day Link

(Monday of Respiratory Care Week.)
National Mole Day Link
Swallows Depart from San Juan Capistrano Day
TV Talk Show Host Day

(Always on Johnny Carson's birthday)

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1700’s                                         

1760 First Jewish prayer books printed in North America

1800’s                                         

1813 The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).

1900’s                                         

1915 1st national horseshoe throwing championship (Kellerton, Iowa)

1915 An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave, led by Dr. Anna Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters

1935 Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard "Lulu" Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what will become known as The Chophouse Massacre.

1941 Walt Disney's animated film "Dumbo" released

1958 Soviet novelist Boris Pasternak, wins Nobel Prize for Literature

1962 Adlai Stevenson speaks at the United Nations about the Cuba crisis

1963 Neil Simon's "Barefoot in the Park" premieres in NYC

1964 Time Magazine uses term "op art" for 1st time

1972 "Pippin" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 1944 performances

1981 US national debt hits $1 trillion

1986 Artist Keith Haring commissioned to paint a mural on the Berlin wall by Checkpoint Charlie Museum 300 metres long

1988 Robert Bork's supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate

2000’s                                         

2001 Apple releases the iPod

2015 Adele releases her single "Hello" - becomes 1st song with more than a million downloads in 1st week (1.1m)

My Rambling Thoughts

Quiet Monday…storm approaching. Probably will be rain since it is way too warm for snow. That’s OK with me.

Winslow, AZ is about 50 miles from Flagstaff. (Famous for ‘Standing on the corner, in Winslow AZ…The ‘Take it Easy’ song by Jackson Brown) made national news yesterday when a tornado touched down about 10 miles out of town. That’s about 20 miles from Twin Arrows Casino, owned and operated by the Navajo Nation. It was on the ground about 20 minutes but there were no buildings in the vicinity. Thankfully, no injuries either.

I must wonder how much longer the American people are going to allow 45 to just make up fear facts with no consequences. These latest two are really quite bizarre, at the very least: He said the Dems are funding the migrant caravan and that ISIS is part of the caravan. Yet he has no informational facts to back this up. And just before elections, he promises a middle-class tax cut that is being worked on by everyone, including Congress, but Congress is busy trying to get re-elected and is not in session, not even in DC. If I decided to shake my head every time 45 lies, I would be very dizzy.

The painters continue their work on the outside of our building. It looks very different…pale green siding with cream trim and a darker green door. My only complaint is that they put plastic over the upstairs windows on Thursday for the spray painting. The removed the plastic from the front windows right after the painting but left it on the back deck windows all weekend. The upstairs back window is the window in the master bedroom, so it was a tad dark all weekend. They were here at 8a working and the plastic was gone by 8:30a. Nice.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

90’s

@98→Katie Lee,

American folk singer, environmentalist and author (Colorado River Songs), born in Aledo, Illinois (d. 2017)

80’s

83→Chi Chi Rodriguez,

Puerto Rican PGA golfer (1972 Byron Nelson), born in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico

70’s

@79→Johnny Carson,

American comedian and TV host (The Tonight Show, Who Do You Trust), born in Corning, Iowa (d. 2005) heart attack

78→Pelé [Edson Arantes do Nascimento],

Brazilian footballer (Player of the Century; 1,281 goals in 1,363 games), born in Três Corações, Brazil

60’s

@66→John Heisman,

American football coach who legalized the forward pass, originated the center snap and for which the Heisman Trophy is named, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1936)

@66→Michael Crichton,

novelist (Andromeda Strain, Congo, Looker), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2008) lymphoma

64→Ang Lee,

Taiwanese-born American filmmaker (Brokeback Mountain, Life of Pi), born in Chaochou, Pingtung

62→Dwight Yoakam,

country singer (Honky Tonk Man), born in Pikeville, Kentucky

50’s

59→Weird Al Yankovic [Alfred Matthew],

American parody singer (Eat It, UHF, Naked Gun), born in Downey, California

56→Doug Flutie,

CFL/NFL quarterback (Argonauts, Generals, Bears, Pats)

40’s

@47→Randy Pausch,

American computer science professor, author, (d. 2008) pancreatic cancer

42→Ryan Reynolds,

 Canadian actor and comedian (Deadpool), born in Vancouver, British Columbia

Historical Obits Today

100’s

@106→2003 Soong Mei-ling [Madame Chiang Kai-shek],

Chinese political figure and First Lady of the Republic of China (1948-75)

90’s

@94→2011 Herbert A. Hauptman,

American Mathematician whose models for determining the chemical crystal structures vital for life revolutionized chemistry, dies at 94

80’s

@87→2004 Robert Merrill [Moishe Miller],

American operatic baritone and actor (NY Metropolitan Opera), dies at 87

60’s

@69→1978 Maybelle Carter,

country singer (Johnny Cash Show)

@67v1939 Zane Grey,

American western writer (Spirit of the Border), heart failure

50’s

@52→1957 Christian Dior,

French fashion designer (New Look), heart attack