Oct 7

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Oct  7, 2018 Week: 41 \ Day: 280

86004 Today: H 63° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 75% 

Wind:   18mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 80°[1965]   Record Low: 19°[2007]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

          Our deeds determine us, as much as

we determine our deeds.

  George Eliot

Harper’s Index

            1,670,000,000

            Estimated combined square footage of all the

            Self-storage units in the US

            2.6

            Factor by which this area is larger than the borough

            Of Manhattan

More Observances This Month

           

Month of Free Thought
National Aesthetician Month  Link
National AIDS Awareness Month  Link 
National Animal Safety and Protection Month Link  Link
National Arts & Humanities Month
National Audiology/Protect Your Hearing Month
National Bake and Decorate Month
National Bullying Prevention Awareness Month
National Caramel Month  Link
National Chili Month
National Chiropractic Health Month
National Cookbook Month
National Crime Prevention Month
National Critical Illness Awareness Month
National Cyber Security Awareness Month Link
National Dental Hygiene Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month Link
National Depression Education & Awareness Month
National Disability Employment Awareness Month
National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
National Down Syndrome Month
National Dwarfism Awareness Month  Link
National Ergonomics Month Link
National Family Sexuality Education Month - Let's Talk! Link
National Field Trip Month
National "Gain The Inside Advantage" Month
National Go On A Field Trip Month
National Kitchen & Bath Month Link
National Liver Awareness Month
National Medical Librarian Month
National Medicine Abuse Awareness Month  Link
National Orthodontic Health Month
National Physical Therapy Month
National Popcorn Poppin' Month
National Pork Month Link
National Protect Your Hearing Month Link
National Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness Month Link
National Reading Group Month
National Roller Skating Month
National RSV Awareness Month Link
National Sarcastic Awareness Month
National Seafood Month Link
National Spina Bifida Awareness Month
National Stamp Collecting Month
National Stop Bullying Month
National Substance Abuse Prevention Month Link
National Toilet Tank Repair Month Link
National Window Covering Safety Month Link
National Work and Family Month
National Sudden Infant Death Syndrome Awareness Month

Observances This Week

           

1-7

National Chimney Safety Week

National Health Care Food Service  Link 
National Heimlich Heroes Week
National Primary Care Physicians Week Link
National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link
National Work From Home Week
Spinning & Weaving Week Link
Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link
Universal Children's Week

2-7
      World Dairy Expo

3-10

No Salt Week

World Space Week Link

5-7

National Storytelling Weekend

6-7

Old-time Fiddler Days

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
National Physicians Assistant Week

7-13

4-H Week Link  
Death Penalty Focus Week

Fire Prevention Week Link
Getting The World To Beat A Path To Your Door Week
Great Books Week 
International Post Card Week Link   
Mental Illness Awareness Week  
Mystery Series Week
National Carry A Tune Week
National Metric Week
Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Week
Teen Read Week

Observances for Today

           

Bald and Free Day

Change A Light Day Link
Country Inn Bed & Breakfast Day
Intergeneration Day  )
International African Diaspora Day
International Blessings of The Fishing Fleet Day (South Africa)
LED Light Day  Link
National Fallen Firefighters Memorial Day  Link

National Forgiveness Day
National Frappe Day

National Inner Beauty Day Link
National Personal Safety Day  Link
World Communion Day
You Matter To Me Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1400’s                                         

1492 Christopher Columbus misses Florida when he changes course

1700’s                                         

1737 A cyclone causes 40 foot waves that are believed to have killed 300,000 in Calcutta, India

1800’s                                         

1806 Carbon paper patented in London by inventor Ralph Wedgwood

1868 Cornell University (Ithaca NY) opens

1900’s                                         

1916 The German submarine U-53 arrives off Newport, Rhode Island, and sinks 9 British merchant ships in international waters

1942 US & UK government announce establishment of United Nations

1952 First "Bandstand" broadcast in Philadelphia on WFIL-TV (Dick Clark joins in 1955 as a substitute-host)

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

1963 JFK signs ratification for nuclear test ban treaty

1968 Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system

1991 Law Professor Anita Hill accuses Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of making sexually inappropriate comments to her

1996 Rupert Murdoch launches Fox News with Roger Ailes as CEO

1998 Matthew Shepard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming, is found tied to a fence after being savagely beaten by two young adults in Laramie, Wyoming.

2000’s                                         

2001 The U.S. invasion of Afghanistan starts with an air assault and covert operations on the ground

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

2016 Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos wins the Nobel Peace Prize for attempts to end conflict with FARC

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

My Rambling Thoughts

Another storm on the way. This time there should be some snow on our peaks. Fall has certainly arrived.

All the news channels are carrying more on the SCOTUS appointment. All the news channels are carrying more of the protests on the SCOTUS appointment. My TV is on the Colorado v AZ State in Boulder. Buffs can win in the 2^nd half. Great plays at the end of the 2nd Q. Because I’m in AZ, the announcers are from ASU so that is a little frustrating. Still, much more enjoyable than News.

89 opened up about 7a after two days of 24/7 work with lots of workers, lots of big machines. Good work.

The deadline for registration is approaching rapidly. If you aren’t register, please do so. And VOTE on Election Day. It’s the only way our damaged democracy can survive.

Changed linens and did a couple of loads of washing. More relaxing than watching the news.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

86►Desmond Tutu, Anglican Archbishop of South Africa and 1984 Nobel Peace Prize winner, born in Klerksdorp, Western Transvaal, South Africa

70’s

@77►Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, expanded quantum physics (Nobel Prize 1922), born in Copenhagen (d. 1962) heat failure

@77►Andy Devine [        Andrew Vabre Devine], American character actor (Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok, Stagecoach), raised in Flagstaff, Arizona (d. 1977) leukemia

@77►Elijah Muhammad [Elijah Robert Poole], American religious leader (Nation of Islam), born in Sandersville, Georgia (d. 1975) heart failure

60’s

67►John Cougar Mellencamp, American musician, actor (Jack & Diane), born in Seymour, Indiana

66►Vladimir Putin, Russian politician (President and Prime Minister), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union

63►Yo-Yo Ma, cellist

50’s

59►Simon Cowell, English recording executive and television producer (X-Factor, American Idol), born in London

51►Toni Braxton, American singer

30’s

@36►Joe Hill, Jevla Sweden, organizer (IWW)/songwriter (Union Scab)/martyr, firing squad

Historical Obits Today

70’s

@73►1950 Willis Carrier, American engineer (developed modern air conditioning)

60’s

@69►1956 Clarence Birdseye, American inventor and founder of the modern frozen food industry (Birdseye),  heart attack

40’s

@40►1849 Edgar Allan Poe, American writer, poet and critic (The Pit and the Pendulum) considered the inventor of the detective fiction genre (Murders in the Rue Morgue)

Oct 6

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Oct  6, 2018 Week: 40 \ Day: 279

86004 Today: H 65° \ L 38° \ Average Sky Cover: 30% 

Wind:   8mph\Gusts:  -mph Visibility: 10 mi

Record High: 81°[1997]   Record Low: 18°[1912]

Oct Averages: 63°\31°

Today’s Quote

            The nice thing about being a celebrity is that,

  if you bore people, they think it's their fault.

  Henry Kissinger

Harper’s Index

96

Percentage of US pet-custody cases that involve dogs

1

That involve cats

More Observances This Month

I'm Just Me Because Month  Link
Italian-American Heritage Month Link
International Augmentative & Alternative Communication (AAC) Awareness Month
International Starman Month
International Strategic Planning Month
International Walk To School Month  Link
Intergeneration Month

Learn To Bowl Month  Link
LGBT History Month Link
Long Term Care Planning Month

Observances This Week

1-7

National Chimney Safety Week

National Health Care Food Service  Link 
National Heimlich Heroes Week
National Primary Care Physicians Week Link
National Walk Your Dog Week Link   Link
National Work From Home Week
Spinning & Weaving Week Link
Trichotillomania, Skin Picking & Related BFRB Awareness Week Link
Universal Children's Week

2-7
      World Dairy Expo

3-10

No Salt Week

World Space Week Link

5-7

National Storytelling Weekend
6-7

Old-time Fiddler Days

6-14

Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta Link
National Physicians Assistant Week

Observances for Today

American Libraries Day

Cephalopod Awareness Day  
Come and Take it Day

Frugal Fun Day 
Inter-American Water Day  Link
International Frugal Fun Day

Jackie Mayer Rehab Day
Mad Hatter Day Link
National German-American Day
National Plus Size Appreciation Day  Link
Physician Assistant Day

World Card Making Day 
World Porridge Day Link

Today’s Significant US Historical Events

Today’s Significant International Historical Events 

1600’s                                         

1683 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown, Philadelphia

1800’s                                         

1853 4th National Women's Rights Convention opens in Cleveland Ohio

1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens 1st public bath, in Brooklyn

1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia

1900’s                                         

1911 Beatrix van Rijk becomes 1st licensed Dutch woman pilot

1948 Paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey finds the first partial fossil skull of Proconsul africanus, an ancestor of apes and humans on Rusinga Island, Kenya

1952 Agatha Christie's play "The Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)

1956 Dr Albert Sabin discovers oral polio vaccine

1961 JFK advises Americans to build fallout shelters

1966 LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) is first declared illegal in state of California, other states follow.

1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit White House in Washington, D.C.

2000’s                                         

2017 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN)

My Rambling Thoughts

Senator Collins sure gave a passionate speech. America will survive. Lots of good points. Let the healing begin now and continue. The healing will be apparent on Election Day.

While I am enjoying a beautiful, fall day here, the people on the Rez are still dealing with washed out roads. Highway 89 is still closed. Travel is treacherous. I have moved to long pants but am still wearing my Teva’s and short sleeve shirts.

Looks like it will be a wet weekend as another storm is moving in. On Wednesday our local news, broadcast by the local university, has returned until the December break. All college students learning their profession. Nice to see local stories. Too bad it isn’t on year round.

Birthdays Today

@-  indicates age at death

80’s

@87►Thor Heyerdahl, Norwegian anthropologist and explorer (Kon Tiki, Aku-Aku), born in Larvik (d. 2002)

60’s

@67►George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (air brakes, alternating current system), born in Central Bridge, New York (d. 1914)

@67►JennyLind, Opera Singer (Swedish Nightingale) (d. 1887)

@66►Fred Travalena, American comedian/impressionist (Buy & Cell), born in NYC, (d. 2009)

50’s

55►Elisabeth Shue, American actress (Cocktail, Back to the Future Part II), born in Wilmington, Delaware

Historical Obits Today

90’s

@91►1951 Will Keith Kellogg, American cereal manufacturer (Kellogg's cereal brand)

80’s

@83►1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, writer and British Poet Laureate

@81►1989 Bette Davis, American actress (All About Eve, White Mama)

60’s

@64►1985 Nelson Riddle, American Grammy Award winning bandleader, conductor and orchestrator for Capitol Records (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Dean Martin), cirrhosis of the liver

@62►1981 Anwar Sadat, 3rd President of Egypt (1970-81, Nobel 1978), assassinated by fundamentalist army officers

50’s

@57►1975 Henry Calvin, actor (Sgt Garcia-Zorro), throat cancer

30’s

@37►1841 George Childress, American lawyer and statesman (author of Texas Declaration of Independence), commits suicide