Oct 12

 

Week: 42 Day: 285 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:   55°\ 27° Wind: 7mph\ Gusts: 11mph High risk of fire Active fire: 281mi. \ Lightning: 916mi. Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

 

Weekly Observations

 

6-12	National Physicians Assistant Week
10-16	Death Penalty Focus Week National Metric Week Drink Local Wine Week Earth Science Week Link  Emergency Nurses Week National Chestnut Week   National Food Bank Week   Teen Read Week
10-17	Take Your Medicine Americans Week
11-16	World Rainforest Week: Link   Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week  Link   National School Lunch Week
12-20	Bone and Joint Health National Awareness Week Link

 

Daily Observations

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

Trivia

 

John Montagu, Fourth Earl of Sandwich, was an important figure in the adventures of Captain Cook, who even named a group of islands after him. But in the United States, he will forever be known as the person after whom a delicious snack was named. His favorite was salt beef between two slices of toasted bread. People started calling it "the Sandwich," and the rest is history.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Winter is on the way. Weather guy says dusting to 2” of snow here tonight/tomorrow morning. Temps are dropping too. Just as I was enjoying the fall weather. After decades of talk, President Biden made an official proclamation that Monday was Indigenous Peoples’ Day. I am a witness to this historical event. Today is the Boston Marathon. There were 3 Hopi runners this year that I knew about. One is the son (25 years old) of one of Tuba Boarding’s retired janitors/ media producer. Thanks to technology, many of us were able to follow his run from start to finish. He finished with a fantastic time and averaged 5min 39 secs/mile for all 26 miles. Great to see locals do well. Remember when Trump started separating children from their parents who crossed the border illegally? As of today, 1000-1500 of those children still have NOT been reunited with their parents. That administration did not see the need to track either the parents or the children. This is a national disgrace. This is not what America is about. The search continues to reunite, but there is extraordinarily little to go on. So sad. AZ Cardinals are 5-0. Yeah! Most people are aware of ‘deep fake’ technology, where pictures are created on the computer that look human, but do not exist. A little freaky. It is also used to have famous people doing things they have never done. Now the technology has advanced so much that the fake person can talk, walk, and do things. To make it freakier, they can now put a real person’s face, body movements, and voice into their movie. Congress needs to step in and monitor this and find a way to identify fakes that anyone on the internet can recognize. The tech companies are doing nothing to prevent confusion. A friend in Tuba got a call from AT&T offering a cheaper Direct TV price. They scammed him out of $300 and turned off his Dish. I was able to help him get the real Dircect TV. The scammer had put his TV on 'vactation' mode which turned the feed off. He lost the $300 but learned a good lesson. Direct TV said they get several calls a day like his. One guy lost $1200.

 

 

Historical Events

 

1279 – The Nichiren Shoshu branch of Buddhism was founded in Japan. 1492 – Christopher Columbus ‘discovered’ The Bahamas. 1773 – Eastern State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital in Williamsburg, Virginia, the first in America, opened. 1901 Theodore Roosevelt renames the "Executive Mansion" as "The White House" 1931 Christ the Redeemer statue opens standing 30 meters high (98 ft) on top of Mount Corcovado overlooking Rio de Janeiro, built by engineer Heitor da Silva Costa 1999 – As of this day, 6 billion people were alive on Earth. 2020 UK PM Boris Johnson announces a new three-tier system for COVID-19 restrictions as cases surge

 

Birthdays Today

 

@71 @71

Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor (died in 2007) Carlos the Jackal (Illich Ramirez Sanchez), Venezuelan terrorist, murderer 53 – Hugh Jackman, Australian actor, and singer 51 – Kirk Cameron, American actor

 

 

Oct 11 indigenous People's Day

 

Week: 42 Day: 284 Ave. Sky Cover:  5%\Visibility: 10 miles Local Temp:  55 °\ 28° Wind: 5mph\ Gusts: 8mph High risk of fire Active fire: 281mi. \ Lightning: 475mi. Oct Averages: 63°\32° (4 days w/moisture)

 

Today’s Quote

Weekly Observations

 

4-11	Spinning & Weaving Week  Link   World Space Week Link
6-12	National Physicians Assistant Week
10-16	Death Penalty Focus Week National Metric Week Drink Local Wine Week Earth Science Week Link  Emergency Nurses Week National Chestnut Week   National Food Bank Week   Teen Read Week
10-17	Take Your Medicine Americans Week
11-16	World Rainforest Week: Link   Choose To Be G.R.E.A.T. Week  Link   National School Lunch Week

 

Daily Observations

 

 

Favorite Memes

 

 

Trivia

 

Fred A. Birchmore, 25, circled the globe by bicycle in 1935. The entire trip, through Europe, Asia, and the United States, covered forty thousand miles. He pedaled about 25,000 miles. The rest was traveled by boat. He wore out seven sets of tires. Americans use their bicycles for less than one percent of all urban trips. Europeans bike in cities a lot more often - in Italy 5 percent of all trips are on bicycle, 30 percent in the Netherlands, and seven out of eight Dutch people over age 15 have a bike.

 

My Sometimes-Long-Winded Thoughts

 

Cool evening…woke up cold about 3am, had to pull up the blanket. Guess it is really fall.   Broncos are having a tough day.  Cards are starting off well in 1st Q. Have a great Indigenous People’s Day. That sounds so much better than the old name. I hope this brings more education in schools as to the many contributions of Indigenous People of America. Science is saying that Covid cases are declining in much of the US. Too soon to get careless. The La Palma volcano is tossing lava as large as 3-story buildings.  And there were 21 seismic events today…the largest was 3.8. There have been 1186 buildings destroyed since it began Sept. 19. WOW!

 

 

Historical Events

 

1887 – The first adding machine (the Comptometer) was patented, by Dorr Eugene Felt. 1929 JC Penney opens store #1252 in Milford, Delaware, making it a nationwide company with stores in all 48 U.S. states. 1962 – Vatican Council II, the 21st ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church was convened by Pope John XXIII, in four sessions that concluded on December 8, 1965. 1975 – Saturday Night Live premiered on NBC. 1984 August Wilson's "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom" premieres in NYC 2002 A bomb attack in a shopping mall in Vantaa, Finland kills seven. 2020 India records more than 7 million cases of COVID-19

 

Birthdays Today

 

@78   @74 @58 @52 44 29

Eleanor Roosevelt, American humanitarian, politician, 39th First Lady (d. 1962; cardiac failure) Henry J. Heinz, founded the H. J. Heinz Company (d, 1919; pneumonia) Dottie West, singer-songwriter (d. 1991; auto accident) Luke Perry, American actor, producer (d. 2019; stroke) Matt Bomer, American actor Cardi B [Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar], American rapper