Nov 2

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Nov. 2, 2019 Week: 44  Day: 306

86004:   H 57° \ L 24° \ Average Sky Cover: 5%

Nearest active fire:  119mi.  Nearest lightning:  1183mi

Wind:   7mph\Gusts:  11mph  Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 73°[1977]   Record Low: 10°[1956]

Nov. Averages: 53°\23° (3 days with moisture)

Today’s Quote

“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers,

he poses the right questions.”

~ Claude Levi-Strauss

Random Tidbits

Black and orange are typically associated with Halloween. Orange is a symbol of strength and endurance and, along with brown and gold, stands for the harvest and autumn. Black is typically a symbol of death and darkness and acts as a reminder that Halloween once was a festival that marked the boundaries between life and death.

With their link to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (a precursor to Halloween) and later to witches, cats have a permanent place in Halloween folklore. During the ancient celebration of Samhain, Druids were said to throw cats into a fire, often in wicker cages, as part of divination proceedings.

Trick-or-treating evolved from the ancient Celtic tradition of putting out treats and food to placate spirits who roamed the streets at Samhain, a sacred festival that marked the end of the Celtic calendar year.

Observances This Month

Family Stories Month Link
Gluten-Free Diet Awareness Month
Historic Bridge Awareness Month Link
Lung Cancer Awareness Month
Manatee Awareness Month Link
Movember Link
MADD's Tie One On For Safety Holiday Campaign (11/1-12/31)
Military Family Appreciation Month Link
National Adoption Month
National PPSI AIDS Awareness Month
National Alzheimer's Disease Month
National COPD Month Link
National Diabetes Month
National Entrepreneurship Month Link
National Family Caregivers Month Link
National Georgia Pecan Month
National Gratitude Month  Link
National Healthy Skin Month Link
National Home Care & Hospice Month Link
National Impotency Month Link
National Inspirational Role Models Month
National Memoir Writing Month
National Long-term Care Awareness Month
National Marrow Awareness Month
National Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Awareness & Appreciation Month Link
National Native American Heritage Month Link
National Family Literacy Month
National Novel Writing Month Link
National Peanut Butter Lovers Month Link
National Pet Cancer Awareness Month Link  Link 
National Pomegranate Month Link
National PPSI Aids Awareness Month
National Runaway Prevention Month Link
National Scholarship Month Link

Observances This Week

10/25-11/11

World Origami Days

10/27-11/2

Give Wildlife a Brake! Week  Link
Kids Care Week

1-7

Drowsy Driving Prevention Week Link   
Give Wildlife A Brake! Week Link 
National Animal Shelter Appreciation Week Link   
National Fig Week
Polar Bear Week

World Communication Week

2-6

National Patient Accessibility Week

Observances for Today

All Soul's Day

Book Lovers Day

Color The World Orange Day Link  
Cookie Monster Birthday  Link  Link 
Deviled Egg Day

Fill Our Staplers Day
International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists  Link
Job Action Day Link   
Look for Circles Day

National Traffic Professionals Day 
Plan Your Epitaph Day

Traffic Directors Day  Link

My Rambling Thoughts

Warming up a little, and I’m getting used to the fall temperatures. Not a lot of wind, and not that cold last night.

In my bedroom I have a lamp on a timer so that the light comes on from about 7p to 9p every day. I change the exact time every so often. One can see the bedroom light for the high staircase hall. It looks like someone is home, without bothering me. My grandfather made the lamp out of some driftwood back in the late 1960’s. I bought a 15w new-fangled spiral bulb when I moved in. Now some 12 years later it burned out. I had to really search for such a small wattage bulb. Finally found one at Home Depot. Us older people look for light bulbs by watts, not by lumens, so the search took a little longer than I wanted to spend looking for a light bulb. Added to the search were the various kinds of light they give off…soft white, natural, clear, and on and on and on. And trying to figure out the way they sort the bulbs on display was beyond me. I wasn’t by brightness, nor base size, nor number of bulbs in the package, nor anything else I could think of. It reminded me more of the big bins that have bags of various types of candy that the customer has to dig through to find what they want. The light bulbs seemed to be randomly placed on the shelves. The new one says it will last 22 years, so things will have changed many times by then.

A lot of Natives, environmentalists, and rural residents were against the Keystone Pipeline. There were fears of devastation of when there was a leak. After years and years of political arguing and court cases, President Trump approved the Keystone Pipeline soon after he became President. Last week there was a leak in North Dakota. 383,000 of oil junk leaked before it could be stopped. Hmmm.

Flagstaff’s Winter Parking has begun. On Nov. 1 each year until May 1 there is no street parking on any street within the city limits from 12midnight until 7am.  It is in place so snow plows can clear roads and/or street sweepers can pick up the cinders left by the snow plows.  Tickets/towing only occur when it actually snows. Life in a small town.

Today’s Puzzle

Answer at the bottom of this page

What can be swallowed, but can also swallow you?

Historical Events

1859 Abolitionist John Brown found guilty of murder, conspiring slaves to revolt and treason against Virginia and sentenced to hang

1889- North Dakota become 39^th state

1898 - Cheerleading was started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team with "Rah, Rah, Rah! Ski-u-mah, Hoo-Rah! Hoo-Rah! Varsity! Varsity! Varsity, Minn-e-So-Tah!". Princeton had published cheers for the audience to chant as early as 1877. In 1903 the first cheerleading fraternity, Gamma Sigma, was founded. Women started being popular cheerleaders in the early 1920s.

1907 US banker J. P. Morgan locks over 40 bankers in his library to force them to find ways to avert New York banking crisis

1914 - New York's Brighton Beach Express subway crashed, killed 97 people and injured 100 more.

1920 - Charlotte Woodward voted in Philadelphia. She was the only sill living member who attended the 1848 Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention.

1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethopian Solmonic Dynasty

1936 - First high-definition TV broadcast service, by BBC in London. At the time "standard definition" was 30 horizontal lines making up the picture, and the 1936 BBC hi-def had 240 lines. Today, 720 is considered the minimum for HD.

1936 - The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) was established.

1947 - Howard Hughes flew a one-mile flight in the world's largest aircraft "Hercules" aka 'The Spruce Goose'.

1957 - The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generated national publicity. Officially, they called it 'blue lightning'.

1959 - Quiz show scandal - Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

1965 - Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, set himself (suicide) on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

1974 - #1 Hit: Stevie Wonder - You Haven't Done Nothin'

1974 - Seventy-eight people died when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burned down.

1983 - President Reagan signed the bill establishing the Dr Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, held on the third Monday in January.

1985 - #1 Hit: Stevie Wonder - Part-Time Lover

1988 - The Morris Worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT. It was written by a student at Cornell University, Robert Tappan Morris. His intention was to gauge the 'size' of the internet.

1991 - #1 Hit: Karyn White - Romantic

1993 Rudy Giuliani wins the New York mayoral election, becomes 1st Republican mayor since 1965

1997 - Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella, starring Brandy and Whitney Houston aired live on ABC

2000 - The first crew arrived at the International Space Station. The assembly of the IISS began in November 1998.

2018 Tiger thought to have killed 13 people shot dead after month-long hunt near Pandharkawada, central India

Birthdays Today

@90 – Steve Ditko, American author and illustrator Marvel

(died in 2018)

@86 – Ray Walston, American actor

(died in 2001)

@85 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer

(died in 1820)

81 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician

@80 – Burt Lancaster, American actor

(died in 1994)

77 – Stefanie Powers

[Stefania Zofya Federkiewicz], American actress

74 – J. D. Souther,

American Singer/Songwriter, guitarist and actor

65 – Pat Croce, American businessman and author

58 – k.d. lang

[Kathryn Dawn Lang],

Canadian Singer/Songwriter, producer and actress

@57 – Warren G. Harding,29th President of the United States,

died in 1923; cardiac arrest)

@53 – James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States,

died in 1849; cholera)

53 – David Schwimmer, American actor

45 – Nelly, American rapper

@37 – Marie Antoinette,

Austrian-French queen consort of Louis XVI of France

(died in 1793; beheaded)

Puzzle answer:

Pride.